Road safety campaigns

Road safety campaigns play an important role in educating the community about the dangers on our roads, in an effort to reduce serious injuries and fatalities in South Australia.

The role of communications in seeking to improve road user behaviour cannot be underestimated. Our innovative campaigns are designed to capture the attention and influence the community to create a safe road environment for all of us.

Drink Driving campaign "Selfish Pri*k" drives home multiple awards

A State finalist in the category of Social Change, marketing designed to shift attitudes or behaviours, the “Selfish Pri*k” campaign won both State and National awards.

Also picked up by SAPOL was the premier award of the night, CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR, recognising the overall best campaign across each state and category.

A SAPOL spokesperson said “addressing road trauma is an emotive and daunting task, but we are pleased that our unflinching efforts to reduce the lives lost each year are being recognised at a National level by our peers.”

The judges’ comments included;

“This is one of the most outstanding campaigns I’ve ever come across.”

“The civic leadership message was one that cut right to the punch.”

“The concept, the strategy, the simple cut-through creative and the additional benefits were bigger than this campaign. They not only achieved their goals, but they also achieved awareness of a very serious Australian culture issue”.

Drink driving post campaign research indicated that the campaign reached 81% awareness, the highest in five years.

The full campaign can be watched in the dropdown menu below.

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