Road Safety Week 2025 Activities
Over 1,000 schools, kindergartens, companies, community groups and road safety professionals registered to take part in Road Safety Week 2025 and hold awareness-raising events or campaigns in their communities.
If you are holding an event in Road Safety Week we want to hear from you. Email info@brake.org.nz with details and any photos and we will add you to this page.
Take a look at more photos from Road Safety Week activities on our Facebook page.
Road Safety Week will be launched on Monday 12 May in Auckland. The event will be attended by Road Safety Week sponsors, partners and supporters. The event will showcase some of the activities taking place during the week, and Road Safety Heroes who will be highlighted. The Yellow Ribbon Road Safety Alliance will also present the annual Road Safety Hero Award.
Media are invited to attend. For more information contact Caroline Perry on info@brake.org.nz or 021 407 953.
Thanks to the Yellow Ribbon Alliance, the Vector Lights Auckland Harbour Bridge and Sky Tower, along with other icons around the country, will shine yellow during Road Safety Week to raise awareness of road safety.
Over 180 schools are registered to take part in Road Patrol Superhero Day, with road patrol students dressing up as their favourite road safety hero or superhero. Schools can also use it as an opportunity to thank road patrollers for what they do to help keep other students safe getting to and from school.
Beca, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi and contractors will be visiting schools to run road safety activities about staying safe around road works, storytime sessions with the book My Mum is Queen of the Road / Ko tōku Māmā te Kuini o te Rori and road safety discussions.
Media are invited to attend school visits in:
Auckland
Tauranga
Wellington
For more information or to attend a school visit, contact Caroline Perry on info@brake.org.nz or 021 407 953.
Taupo District Council has created a yellow ribbon display along the waterfront, in memory of those people who died on Taupo District roads in 2024.
The #LoveTaupo sign will also light yellow in support of the week.
Road Safety Week is kindly sponsored by:
