SAVING LIVES

How Can KiwiRAP Help Save Lives?

In 2009, 384 people died on New Zealand roads and more than 2,400 were seriously injured. Preventing, or at least reducing, this road trauma requires vehicle manufacturers, road authorities, drivers and many others involved in the road system design to share responsibility for road safety.

KiwiRAP is focused on making roads and roadsides safer through investigating where the higher risk roads are, and how the safety of those roads can be improved. Following this, the NZ Transport Agency can use the data to help guide its approach to state highway safety improvements, to reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries.

The Safe Road System

What do drivers think about road engineering?

How can engineering make our roads safer?

What do I do if I'm driving on a riskier stretch of road?