 I am honoured to accept the role of ambassador for the Queensland Central Region Road Safety Week. Jida Road crashes, almost 300 people are killed on Queensland roads, and on average a further 6,500 people are hospitalised each year. Around 100 of those deaths occur on roads within the Central Police Region. This campaign is aimed at forging strong partnerships across the whole community and recognising our shared responsibility in preventing road trauma, all road trauma. It's aimed at families and friends having conversations around road safety and watching out for each other before you take to the road. It's about the fatal five, speeding, drinking drug driving, failure to wear seatbelts, driving a wall fatigue and distraction and inattention. It's about how we work together. Every time you travel in a vehicle, you are at risk of becoming one of these statistics. Road accidents do not discriminate. They can happen to anyone at any time. The moment that remains the same when road accidents occur is the pain and grief felt by family and friends, and as is always the case, the search for answers. Why? Road trauma is not limited to hoons, to people driving at high speeds or those taking risks. Victims of road trauma and fatalities include mums who lost attention for just a few seconds when reaching for her mobile phone, to your best mate who got up at 3am to drive to his fishing spot that drove tired, and to the teenager who would have been okay if only she had been wearing her seatbelt. This happened to me. I understand what it is like to lose mates to a road crash. It changes lives forever. The saddest and most frustrating thing is that many of these deaths and injuries are preventable. We are trying to make a difference to road safety. Now it's your turn. I'm urging you to join me in making our roads a safer place. Road safety is your future. Together, we will make a difference.