Marlborough Road Safety

The Marlborough District Council is committed to delivering on the New Zealand Road Safety Strategy 2020-2030 – Road to Zero to reduce deaths and serious injuries on our roads by at least 40 percent in this decade.

NZ Government Road Safety Strategy 2020-2030 (PDF, 7.6MB)

The MDC Road Safety Coordinator delivers road safety promotion activities and works with partner agencies at a regional level to have an impact on the behaviour of anyone using our roading network to reduce death and serious injury crashes.

The Road Safety Promotion Programme supports:

Local targeted advertising
Driver Licensing Programmes for vulnerable people
Child Car Restraints – What’s happening in Marlborough (further information below)
Ride Forever motorcycle training for all levels
The Marlborough Road Safety Action Plan
Ride-On school cycle training
E-bike training
Cycle and Walking Crash/Near Miss Reporting
Motorcycle Safety
Older driver safety

Child Car Restraints – What’s happening in Marlborough

Marlborough now has eight fully accredited Child Restraint Technicians

Organisation	Contact Details
Maataa Waka	Kowhai Buchanan	kowhai@maataawaka.co.nz
Police	Amber Wright-Watson	Amber.Wright-Watson@police.govt.nz
Pacific Trust	Ph 0800 846 252	office@marlboroughpacifictrust.co.nz
Marl Youth Trust	Ph 022 059 8368	thrivetupu@myt.org.nz
In-home Educator		Go to Facebook page
MDC Provider	Emma Barnet	Ph 027 390 0767

Child Car restraint Fitting Clinics

If you want someone to check over the fitting of your child car seat or for more information about the right car seat for your Tamariki, there are clinics being held every second week in Blenheim. There is no charge for this service

For more information or to make an appointment contact Emma Barnett on 027 390 0767

Organisation or small group workshops

If you want to have a car seat fitting presentation to your group or organisation, please contact Maureen on 021 101 6252. There is no charge for this service.