The MAC Road Safety Round is this weekend.
The Motor Accident Commission is a major sponsor and supporter of Community Football and netball, right from club level, to regional and state levels. The MAC Logo appears on our footballs every week and MAC is active in promoting road safety awareness right accross our region.
The purpose of the Road Safety Round is to raise awareness of road safety, an issue particularly important to us given we travel extensively, not only for sport and recreation, but as a part of country life. Accidents have affected every club and community within our region at some point, so this is a positive initiative seeking real outcomes in road safety, reduced death and injury.
Clubs have been distributed information and packs including resources with road safety messages for promotions on the day and permanently within clubs. Clubs are asked to promote the initiatives in their budgets and on the day. MAC run information workshops which are held at predermined dates at clubs. These are hard hitting messages on accident data, areas being focussed on by the police, how alcohol and drugs affect judgement, how they are detected/ measured, speeding and how long vehicles take to stop, heavy vehicle issues plus plenty more. MAC presenters are experienced and approachable, the workshops are valuable to everyone, particularly younger drivers or soon to be drivers.
Players and officials are asked to wear black arm bands to further raise awareness of the campaign. Medals are provided for the player whose conduct and the decisions that they make, positively affects the match outcome (ie: not necessarily the best player). This aligns with the theme for the campaign
Each club has a MAC Ambassador to assist runnning the Road Safety Round and generally coordinate MAC activities.
The Mid West Football League and Mid West Netball Association commends and strongly supports the MAC initiatives, we have just lost too many of our people to road trauma, and no club is untouched by this issue.
Information on MAC and its activities is available on its website
http://www.mac.sa.gov.au/
Last Modified on 14/07/2016 15:19