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CR 165: Benefits of a Frontal Offset Regulation (1996)

Regs_Front.pdf (461.41 KB)

Australian vehicles are currently required to meet Australian Design Rule ADR 69 which specifies head, chest and femur dummy criteria in a dynamic full frontal crash test at 48km/h.

CR 164: Young Driver Research Program: Digest of Reports and Principal Findings of the Research (1996)

Young_Stats_8.pdf (361.95 KB)

The over-involvement of young drivers in road crashes is widely understood in Australia to be a most serious and to date largely intractable road safety problem. Young people aged 15-24 make up 15% of the population but account for 31% of fatalities.

MR 13: Analysis of Improving Occupant Protection in Existing Coaches (1996)

mr_13.pdf (1.09 MB)

This study was initiated to undertake a cost benefit analysis of equipping the coaches in the Australian fleet, as at 30 June 1994, with a range of occupant protection measures as outlined in the Code of Practice (Bleakly 1994). The amount of data on bus crashes in Australia is limited.

OR 19: Variation in Relative Safety of Australian Drivers with Age

Safe_Age_1.pdf (824.46 KB)

This report compares the road safety performance of individual age classes of Australian drivers.

CR 153: Grouping of Fatal Pedestrian Crashes (1996)

Ped_Crash_1.pdf (1.91 MB)

This research developed a typology of fatal pedestrian crashes using a multivariate statistical strategy which included homogeneity analysis and k-means clustering.