What We Do
South Canterbury Road Safety (SCRS) works across the Timaru, Waimate and Mackenzie Districts to promote road safety. Our aim is to reduce incidents of road trauma, and fatal and serious crashes throughout South Canterbury.
We run events and education programmes to target identified road safety issues in our area.
Community involvement is essential to achieve our road safety targets. We work closely with other road safety partners, like Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Hate Hone St John, Kaitiaki o Ara - Students Against Dangerous Driving, South Canterbury Neighbourhood Support, NZTA, ACC, Automobile Association and many others to achieve this goal. We also work collaboratively with our colleagues at Waitaki Road Safety and Ashburton District Council to share resources and ideas.
Lucy Mehrtens
South Canterbury is home to Lucy who grew up in Waimate attending the local primary and secondary school before venturing to the University of Canterbury where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Media and Communications. Returning to South Canterbury Lucy worked for local Cancer Society branch and before spending eight years in the local media industry. Lucy's passion for road safety sparked from being a SADD leader at Waimate High School. A serious crash in 2016 prompted her to work alongside local emergency services to work with the community in particular local schools with road safety education.
Michelle Bunt
Michelle was born in Timaru and moved back to the area in December 2021. She previously worked for Timaru District Council in Water Services Community Engagement. Michelle has seen the impacts of serious road crashes on friends who've been shaken after crashes and spent months learning how to walk again, and live with the ongoing, debilitating effects of brain injuries.
