2 | Vicroads VicRoads is Victoria’s road agency managing over 22,000 kilometres of roads, 3,133 bridges, processing more than 22 million transactions a year for 3.7 million licensed drivers and 4.9 million registered vehicles. Based in offices all over regional and metropolitan Victoria, VicRoads staff help make sure Victorians can get from A to B quickly and safely. Road safety pioneers VicRoads has a history of pioneering road safety initiatives which reduce deaths and serious injuries on our roads. In 1970, Victoria was the first place in the world to make it compulsory to wear seatbelts – the effect of this change on the road toll was a dramatic reduction. Other road safety initiatives over the decades have included designing safer roads with skid resistant pavements, improv-
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