TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - The 'Yalgoo experience" JO - Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety A1 - Gibson, R. A1 - Vince, P. SP - 51 EP - 55 VL - 23 IS - 4 N2 - Local governments are important players in road safety as road transport system designers, operators, and managers. Local governments are well positioned to positively influence road safety outcomes as leaders and influencers in their local communities. Toward his zero, the W Way, Road safety strategy recognizes the part local government play in the shared responsibility approach to road safety. Paragraph The Shire of Yalgoo is one of 141 local governments in Western Australia, located in the Midwest region approximately 524 km northeast of Perth. Yalgoo is a small remote local government with a population of 242. The shire is responsible for design, operation, and management of 115 km of sealed roads and 1,126 km of unsealed roads. In the period from 1995 through 2004, non-Metropolitan Western Australia recorded 7876 serious injury crashes including 20 to serious injury crashes in the Shire of Yalgoo.
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