 Today, we're here to talk about road safety and the impact collisions have on our communities. Crashes this year have accounted for just over 10% of the incidents we attended. If we're looking at 2017 alone, we responded to over 5,300 incidents across Victoria. In an ideal world, we'd never have to respond to road collisions, but this isn't the case. CFA have now commenced the rollout of road crash rescue support capabilities on heavy pumpers across Victoria. This will not only save lives, but provide improved access to patients for ambulance Victoria and decreased extracation times, improving overall outcomes of those involved in collisions. These collisions have a devastating impact not only on those involved, but have a lasting effect on communities and are often preventable. It's important this road safety week, we remember, road safety is everyone's responsibility. Road accidents are devastating in any way or form. It's not just the people that go to the accidents and see what they see. Although we do this in our own time as volunteers, we go about it with a very professional attitude. We're going there and we're seeing perhaps some of the worst injured people we'll ever see. Sometimes, unfortunately, they do die, but it has a huge impact not only on us as rescuers that go, the ambulance, the police and the other firefighters that are there, but it's devastating for the people that involve whether they're injured, they are the bystanders. It could be their loved ones in the car that show up when we're there and in a community, even though where it is big, they still show up. It's hard to describe the utter devastation that can cause from a serious injury to a death and where they're facing it. Road trauma is really a multi-phase process. Emergency services will attend the scene of crash and they will see the immediate impacts of road trauma. They'll see people trapped in crumpled vehicles. They'll see pedestrians who have been hit by cars. They'll see the immediate impacts and it's brutal. We see the aftermath of road trauma insofar as dealing with the emotional and occasionally the physical effects of the crash and the incident that have brought people to us. We attend many different types of accidents, high speed, rail accidents, industrial accidents, high speed accidents are generally the ones that are probably more traumatic and where people are probably more ill and need our help more urgently. The most common cause of accidents I see around the area are speeding, alcohol, drugs and distraction. One collision affects many people whether that be the emergency services, the community, the people first on scene. The ripple effect from one stupid mistake somebody makes is enormous and can affect hundreds of people.