TAC round was about safer roads

BALLARAT Football Netball League athletes were all set to participate in the annual Transport Accident Commission Road Safety Round last weekend, and then lockdown 6.0 hit.

However with the message still important regardless of action on the field or court, league general manager Shane Anwyl said TAC has strengthened their relationship with grassroots sporting organisations in recent years, and they are collaborating to promote a key message.

“The TAC Road Safety Round is one of our stand-out rounds, all about encouraging people to be safe on the roads so everyone travelling to community sport can get home safely, and we fully support that,” he said.

“I doubt there’s a club anywhere that hasn’t been touched by road trauma, and it’s something we all need to work together to improve, and to help others.

Senior constable of police with Ballarat Highway Patrol Jeremy Hancock said sport is an ideal platform for the messaging, connecting to “massive” amounts of young and old community members.

“We’ve spent 18 months in and out of lockdown,” he said.  “We’ve stopped driving, and when we stop doing something for a while before doing it again, we lose some of our skills.

“There’s a lot of wet winter roads, there’s black ice on the roads… Pay attention to the roads every time you’re driving, and that will help in relation to decreasing road trauma.”

As part of the round football and netball players would have worn armbands in the iconic TAC shade of blue for all games.