Summary

The relatively high risk to motorcycle riders of serious and fatal injury, compared with other road users, is a significant road safety issue. Trends in motorcycle fatalities over the decade to 2001 suggest improvement in the safety of motorcyclists has been lagging that of other road users. Motorcycle rider fatalities only decreased by 6 per cent between 1991 and 2001compared with an 18 per cent reduction in the overall road toll, from 2113 to 1736.

Summary

The main aim of this project was to establish a mathematical curve that defines the relationship between free travelling speed and the risk of involvement in a casualty crash, for sober drivers in an urban setting. Data collected in a case control study (Kloeden, McLean, Moore and Ponte, 1997) were reanalysed using logistic regression modelling.

Summary

Historically Australia has played a leading role in promoting seat belt use, principally through government legislation since the 1970s. Australian Design Rule 69 (ADR69), mandated to apply from 1995, saw the introduction of a five-second warning light designed to act as a seat belt reminder system. Despite seat belt wearing rates for front seat occupants being in the vicinity of 95% for the past decade, current non-wearing rates in casualty crashes are as high as 33% of killed occupants and 20% of seriously injured occupants.

Summary

They don"t talk to strangers, they look before they cross the road and they know about safe sex. Information your teenagers need about drink driving.

Type: Safety Education Material
Publication Date: 01/01/02

Summary

Road fatalities among older pedestrians Pedestrians represent a significant component of Australias total road deaths. Of 1,737 deaths throughout Australia in 2001, about one-in-six (290) were pedestrians. This monograph provides a statistical overview of a major contributor to the pedestrian toll - people aged 65 years and older.

Summary

This report documents the findings from the latest survey of community attitudes to road safety. The 2004 Community Attitudes Survey is the seventeenth in the long running survey program, the main purpose of which is to monitor attitudes to a variety of road safety issues, evaluate specific road safety countermeasures, suggest new areas for intervention and identify significant differences between jurisdictions.

Summary

This publication presents an annual statistical summary of Australian fatal road crashes and road deaths. This issue presents fatal crash data for 2004 and makes comparisons with 2003 and 1999.

The data derives primarily from the Monthly Fatal Crash Database compiled by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau using fatal crash unit record data forwarded from police and transport authorities in each State and Territory. This database covers all fatal crashes from 1989.

Summary

The total number of road deaths in May 2005 was 144
- this is a 0.0% increase over the May 2004 figure.

The number of road deaths in 2005 to the end of May is 664
- this is a 1.5% decrease from the same 5 month period in 2004.

Summary

This months key figures

The total number of road deaths in December 2005 was 156
- this is a 22.8% increase over the December 2004 figure.

The number of road deaths in 2005 to the end of December is 1,635
- this is a 3.3% increase over the same 12 month period in 2004.

Summary

The total number of road deaths in November 2005 was 122
- this is a 6.9% decrease from the November 2004 figure.

The number of road deaths in 2005 to the end of November is 1,488
- this is a 2.2% increase over the same 11 month period in 2004.