Fatal and serious injury crashes down 35% on Hume Freeway since Oct 2019

Flexible safety barriers are the most effective way of preventing crashes on high-speed roads and reducing the severity of injuries.

The barriers work by absorbing much of the force in a collision, lowering the impact to passengers and allowing the vehicle to come to a gradual standstill.

The Victorian Government invested $89 million to install around 980 kilometres of new flexible safety barriers on the Hume Freeway after it was identified as one of the highest-risk roads in the state.

On average between the years 2014 – 2018, there were 35.2 fatal and serious injury crashes and 71.6 crashes on the Hume Freeway each year.

Since the introduction the introduction of flexible safety barriers, the average number of annual fatal and serious injury crashes has dropped to 23 per year (35% reduction) and total crashes to 50 (30% reduction).

Road safety infrastructure installed right around Victoria is saving lives.