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Road safety advice for third-level and further education students

Our resources and awareness campaigns to help further education students stay safe on our roads.

It’s important to continue encouraging good road safety behaviour among third-level and further education students. 

Road Safety Promotion Officers at a college event

The benefits of promoting road safety at third-level

  • It reinforces the road safety lessons they learned in secondary school which will benefit students and all road users.
  • Younger students or siblings may look up to them as role models, so modelling good behaviour benefits everyone.
  • At their age they may be novice or fully licenced drivers and will need to continue practising good road safety behaviour and show respect to all road users.

We offer a number of resources which tailor road safety messages to engage third-level students.

You can book a visit from one of our dedicated Further Education Officers by emailing [email protected]

Host a Road Safety Week event

We strongly encourage third-level colleges, institutes and universities to organise their own road safety awareness initiatives.

  • Irish Road Safety Week takes place at the beginning of October. This would be a perfectly timed event to engage students as it comes at the beginning of the academic year which is a busy social time for students.
  • UN Global Road Safety Week takes place in mid-May. This would also be a timely event to engage students as it comes near the end of the academic year when students are planning to travel home, around the country or abroad.

Wrecked

Our Wrecked.ie programme targets young people aged 17-24 years who are a major risk group on Irish roads. Our research shows that this age group are three times more likely to be killed in a collision than the rest of the population.

Wrecked campaign
  • It uses real-life stories to tell the consequences of road traffic collisions and other life-changing events that happen on our roads. 
  • It features a series of vodcasts, i.e. video broadcasts, illustrated with animation highlighting key points in each speaker’s real-life testimony.

Road safety themes covered in our Wrecked.ie programme include:

  • driver distraction
  • drug driving
  • road user impairment 
  • driving without insurance
  • modified cars  
  • driving when using a mobile phone.

We can help you run a road safety event

Our road safety promotion officers are available to help with any road safety initiative you have in mind, by:

  • helping you plan a successful road safety event in advance
  • offering advice on various road safety activities and initiatives on campus
  • helping you to deliver road safety education material
  • providing information and training on whatever resources will suit your needs.

You can book a visit from one of our dedicated Road Safety Promotion Officers by emailing [email protected]

RSA Shuttle on the road

Try our Shuttle Interactive Unit

You can also book any of our highly popular Road Safety Roadshow experiential learning tools.

What our shuttle offers

  • Practice your driving and hazard perception skills on our motorbike or bicycle simulators.
  • Experience first-hand the dangers of driving and texting, driver fatigue and distractions through our VR films 'Consequences' and 'Distractions'.
  • Try the brake reaction timer to see how driving environments and speed affect your braking distances.
  • Learn about tyre safety. Tyres are your only contact with the road!
  • Practice your road safety knowledge on our interactive games.
RSA Shuttle

Book or get more information on Road Safety Week events