A new police report released earlier this week shows there has been a 22 per cent decrease in fatal crashes in the country.

The evaluation of the 2013/2014 Safer Summer campaign found there was also a 36 per cent decrease in in exceeding the speed limit by 1-10km/h and a 45 per cent decrease for speeding in excess of 10km/h.

The number of people killed in 2013/2014 has decreased by 22 per cent.

The report also found that serious crashes decreased by eight per cent and minor injury crashes dropped by 16 per cent.

Due to the small numbers involved, the evaluation could not confirm the statistical significance of the crash decreases.

Road policing assistant commissioner Dave Cliff is fully behind a recently-launched road safety campaign which commits Police to ensuring more people safely ‘reach the beach' this summer.

'Like last summer's campaign, this is one of several initiatives by Police and the wider road safety sector to encourage safer driving on our roads over the long term,” he says.

'This evaluation supports a vast body of research showing that driving a few kilometres slower makes us all safer.”

Dave says the evaluation found drivers tended to revert to pre-intervention speeds once the campaign ended.

'We want to keep the statistics moving in the right direction – not just over summer but every day of the year,” adds Dave.

Police are reminding people that anything over the limit is speeding, and that from December 1 lower alcohol limits for drivers aged 20 and over will be strictly enforced.