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This simple road safety message won a competition for Wodonga's Sasha Price, but more importantly she hopes it will help save lives.
The words and images Miss Price created with fellow Holmesglen TAFE graphic design student Carly Diep were selected for the Re:act TAFE 2021 campaign.
Using a fuel gauge to represent hours of sleep, their design has been displayed online as well as on Victorian billboards, including in Wodonga.
Miss Price, 22, said she and her co-creator had been bouncing around ideas related to driver fatigue, the topic of this year's Re:act road safety behaviour change program.
"I would be travelling to Albury-Wodonga when I could, when I was allowed to, and when my fuel gauge gets really low I get really anxious," she explained.
"I said I wonder how we could put the same anxiety behind sleeping and being fatigued and placing it in the same kind of mindset."
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Part of the pair's research was interviewing up to 40 apprentices at their school, asking what they did when feeling tired behind the wheel.
"Knowing that more young Australians die from driver's fatigue than drunk driving was amazing to me, we both got really passionate about it," Miss Price said.
But the message also had to convey its meaning quickly to drivers passing by.
"Let's make something really simple, that's eye-catching and makes you think twice," they agreed.
A collaboration between the Re:act team, TAC, WorkSafe Victoria, oOh!media and Hard Edge, the competition required graphic design students to devise a campaign to raise awareness among 16 to 24 year-old road users.
Re:act founder Andrew Hardwick praised the Holmesglen TAFE students' work.
"The selected campaign is an engaging combination of target audience research and brilliant thinking," he said.
Miss Price, who was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia during her Wodonga school days, is proud of what she's achieved living with those challenges.
"Sometimes it's like a superpower, and we don't even realise," she said.
"We think, 'Oh, you know it's put under 'a disability' and 'difficulties' and I'm like, 'No, we have a different outlook'.
"There's so many amazing famous people out there who have these kind of things and we don't even realise."
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