Road Safety Publications

CR 193: The development of a protective headband for car occupants (2000)

In 1997 McLean et al. (1997) demonstrated that energy absorbing headwear for car occupants might be effective in reducing the numbers of head injuries sustained by car occupants.

Dementia and driving

Drivers with dementia may have a higher accident risk than comparable drivers without dementia, but the results of studies are ambiguous, as are those linking neuropsychological impairments to driving safety.

Monograph 1 – Fatal crash involvement of never-licensed motorists.

Unlicensed motorists feature prominently in Australias road crash statistics. Their crashes contribute about one in every twelve road fatalities.

Pre-ATSB (FORS) Monograph 30: International tourists and road risk

An overview of international tourist involvement in fatal crashes in Australia.

CR 183: Drink Driving Offenders in a Rural Community: A Profile of Drink Driving Offenders in Regional Queensland (1999)

Drink driving remains a major health and economic problem for industrialised countries. Interventions and strategies developed for rehabilitation of drink drivers need to target the specific needs of this subgroup within the population.

CR182: Perceptual Countermeasures: Experimental Research (1999)

Speeding has long been recognised as a major factor in road crashes in Australia that deserves priority attention.

CR 184: Drink Driving Rehabilitation: The Present Context (1999)

Alcohol abuse and alcohol-related problems remain a major public health issue. Drink driving is one alcohol-related problem that has gained much attention over recent years. The magnitude of the drink driving problem is often shown using crash data.

CR188: Community Attitudes to Road Safety: Community Attitudes Survey Wave 12 (1999)

This is the twelfth in a series of annual surveys of community attitudes and perceptions towards a range of road safety issues.

Pre-ATSB (FORS) Monograph 29: Alcohol and road fatalities in Australia 1997

Provides information on the incidence of alcohol intoxication amongst drivers, motorcycle riders and pedestrians involved in fatal crashes during 1997.

CR 181: Vehicle compatibility: analysis of fatal crashes

In recent years, the focus of vehicle designers and policy makers has extended from consideration of attributes of individual vehicles that increase the safety of their occupants to systemic features of the vehicle fleet that determine the safety of the vehicle occupant population as a whole.