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Businesses join forces to reduce driver fatigue crashes on NSW roads
Two Blue Mountains businesses have put their hands up to help fight driver fatigue and reduce the road toll by offering free ‘cuppas’ to tired drivers.
Our local businesses are joining more than 100 businesses across regional NSW to participate in the next phase of the successful Free Cuppa for the Driver scheme that has been running for 11 years.
Participating businesses are encouraging drivers to take regular breaks by offering a free cup of tea or coffee to any driver who is more than 100kms away from home. Since 2010, over 25,000 free cuppas have been given away. During that time, across NSW fatigue-related crashes have fallen 19%.
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Blue Mountains Stories competition winners announced
David King’s tale of the devastation wreaked upon Narrow Neck in the 2019/2020 bushfires, Gunai Dhaura Mulanga, has won the Blue Mountains Stories: A Year Like No Other competition and its $1000 prize.
Mr. King, a proud Gundungurra man, wrote of bearing witness to tragedy and of daring to embrace hope. The judges remarked Mr. King’s story: “…offered a powerful and deeply personal look at the connection to Country and the importance of being a custodian of the land we walk on.”
“Being a Gundungurra Man I have a love for our natural world and our processes to care for it,” Mr. King said. “To express this about the fires and Country was exhilarating. To have these words acknowledged with the prize was humbling. It also gives me hope and encouragement. Yadhung jii.”