Victorian families call for lower speed limits, more signage and school crossings

Cathy Micich was about to turn into Scotsburn Primary School in Ballarat to pick up her grandson when she was hit head-on by another car. 'Road safety insanity' Monash Accident Research Centre director Stuart Newstead said having a 100kph zone anywhere near a school was the "definition of road safety insanity". "Quite often we have cars and trucks coming awfully fast past the school … it's not clearly signed, a lot of the traffic aren't even aware they're in a school zone," Ms McKinnon said. The Department of Transport said in a statement a 40kph school speed zone was in place on Ararat-Halls Gap Road at the Moyston Primary School. "We need another school crossing, there's one school crossing and it's about a kilometre walk for four schools," Ms Telfer said.