SAFER SPEEDS is one of the four cornerstone areas of intervention in the Towards Zero Together road safety strategy to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on our roads.

Focus areas include:

• Appropriate speed limits
  Greater application of the default speed limits of 50km/h in urban areas and 100km/h in rural areas where a limit above the default cannot be justified.
• Compliance with speed limits
  Expansion of fixed safety cameras in urban areas, and average speed safety cameras on major regional and interstate routes, as well as more closely aligning speeding penalties with the road safety risk. 

News and Initiatives

• New speeding penalties, May 2012
• Speed limits reduced to 100km/h on more rural roads within a 100 kilometre radius of Adelaide and on the Yorke Peninsula, November 2011

More information

• Safer Speeds strategies and action plan
• Types of safety cameras
• Safety camera locations
• Speed limits and penalties
• Speed facts