National Fleet Safety Database

Fleet vehicle managers in Australia presently lack a reliable benchmark database on the performance of their fleet drivers, vehicles and their different environments.

Trends in fatal crashes on rural roads

Looks at the factors involved in fatal crashes on rural roads in Australia.

CR 144: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Alternative Work Practices (1995)

In this study measurements of a range of indicators of fatigue were collected on long distance truck drivers undertaking a 10-12 hour journey under different operational conditions.

CR 158: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Two-Up Driving (1994)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of two-up driving on driver fatigue by comparing it to the major operational alternative, single driving.

CR 147: A Review of Statistical Methods for Road Traffic Accident Mass Databases (1994)

This Review considers statistical techniques that can be applied to data from mass road traffic databases, concentrating on approaches which do not require ancillary information to the database.

CR 146A: Vehicle speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian collisions. Volume 2: Case data

The aim of this study by the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit was to estimate the likely effect on pedestrian fatalities of a reduction in vehicle travelling speed. Results were based on detailed investigations of 176 fatal pedestrian collisions in the Adelaide area between 1983 and 1991.

CR 137: Lower Limb Injuries to Passenger Car Occupants (1994)

Lower limb injuries occur to front seat occupants in more than one in three head-on casualty crashes. A study was undertaken to determine the various types of injuries, the sources of injury inside the vehicle, and the mechanisms of injury.

CR 146: Vehicle Travel Speeds and the incidence of Fatal Pedestrian Collisions (Volume 1)

The aim of this study by the NHMRC Road Accident Research unit was to estimate the likely effect on pedestrian fatalities of a reduction in vehicle travelling speed. Results were based on detailed investigations of 176 fatal pedestrian collisions in the Adelaide area between 1983 and 1991.

OR 14: A Comparison of Fatal Crashes involving Male and Female Drivers

This report examines differences between male and female drivers in terms of travel characteristics, fatal crash risk, fatal crash characteristics and factors affecting injury outcome.

CR 138: Crashes Resulting in Occupant Fatalities: Frontal Impacts (1994)

This report describes crashes in which car occupants were killed as a result of frontal impacts. Frontal impacts account for just under half of road crashes in which car occupants are killed and in Australia over 500 persons were killed in 441 cars involved in fatal crashes in 1990.