BRAKE Australia

25/09/2026

Student Responses of the Week!

Responses from high school students completing the BRAKE Driver Awareness program in their classrooms across Australia.

BRAKE students answer more than 50 reflection and quiz questions across the program. These are three of them.

BRAKE is a school-based road safety program delivered by teachers, helping young people build safer attitudes and decisions before they start driving independently.

23/09/2026

21/09/2026

“We’re going to get ourselves challenged throughout our life. We need to be able to understand and push ourselves through those pressure moments.”

We love hearing where students take the conversation. Here, students from St Peters Lutheran College - Springfield, share a little of what BRAKE has meant to them, in their own words.

BRAKE’s road safety and wellbeing program is now available to secondary schools across Australia.

Find out more about BRAKE for your school: https://zurl.co/ZmRbj

16/09/2026

16/09/2026

Nearly $80,000 raised for BRAKE through this years Transurban Bridge to Brisbane! 🙌

Thank you to everyone who ran, walked, donated, fundraised or cheered on the team on Sunday. It was wonderful to see teachers from different schools coming together in their BRAKE shirts to support road safety education for young people.

A special thank you to Transurban and their team, who raised and donated over $61,500 towards that total for BRAKE. We’re grateful for their support through our Bridge to Brisbane charity partnership and for getting so many people behind BRAKE.

Together, the funds raised will help us offer the BRAKE Program fully funded to more Queensland schools in 2027, helping more young people build the judgement and confidence to make safer decisions as passengers and future drivers.

Here are a few favourite moments from Sunday, shared by our BRAKE team. Thanks for being part of a great day and showing your support for BRAKE! 📸

09/09/2026

Knowing a friend is driving too fast doesn’t always make it easy to ask them to slow down.

A young passenger may be worried about the speed but also about being laughed at or upsetting the driver. If everyone else stays quiet, finding the words can feel even harder.

Through BRAKE, students learn to recognise risk and develop strategies for handling pressure. In the classroom, they have time to practise what they would say in their own words over six weeks and build the confidence to speak up.

Speaking up as a passenger is one part of a program that helps young people build judgement and prepare for the decisions they’ll face as drivers too.

BRAKE is now available to secondary schools across Australia. Schools planning for 2027 can request the BRAKE School Program Guide: https://zurl.co/8xCI1.

02/09/2026

Less than two weeks to go until Bridge to Brisbane! 🏃

The BRAKE team has been training hard and looking forward to race day on Sunday, 13 September.

A huge thank you to Transurban, whose team has raised more than $60,000 for BRAKE Driver Awareness. With the support of our other runners, donors and fundraisers, more than $75,000 has now been raised for BRAKE ahead of this year’s event.

That support will help us reach more schools and give more young people access to vital road safety education.

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who has donated, fundraised or supported the team, and especially to Transurban for getting behind BRAKE and the work we do with young people.

The Courier-Mail has shared the story ahead of this year’s Transurban Bridge to Brisbane 👇

https://zurl.co/aNgV7

There’s also still time to support the BRAKE team and help us reach even more young people:

https://zurl.co/yCPPN