Summary

Fleet vehicle managers in Australia presently lack a reliable benchmark database on the performance of their fleet drivers, vehicles and their different environments. This lack of reliable information became apparent following requests from fleet managers of the National Safety Council of Australia (NSCA) member organisations and others for access to data on fleet accidents.

Summary

The main objective of this project was to estimate the proportion of drink-drivers on the road in Victoria who had consumed beer recently. In addition, the data collected was analysed in a way that allowed the role of beer to be estimated for crash-involved drink-drivers. Data was obtained from reports completed by Breathalyser operators from drink-drivers apprehended at random breath test stations or through random routine Police checks.

Summary

1.1 Survey Methodology and Aim

This document reports the findings from a national survey of 1,244 people aged 15 years and over, conducted in May/June 1995. The survey is the eighth in a series of similar national studies conducted since October 1986 for the ATSB Road Safety, designed to monitor key community attitudes toward road safety issues.

Summary

This report represents a general set of tabulations for 1993 from the Serious Injury database compiled by the Federal Office of Road Safety (FORS). More specific review of the 1993 police serious crash data will be provided within FORS" annual statistical series Road Crash Resulting in Hospitalisation, together with analysis of hospital data for that year about road crash admissions.

Summary

This study reviewed what economic appraisals have been performed on road safety measures within the priority areas identified in the National Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan, and appraised their methodological soundness. The focus has been to establish the cost-effectiveness of measures, and to discuss the role of cost-effectiveness analysis in relation to the current reliance on cost-benefit analysis for resource allocation decisions.

Summary

Analysis of the benefits of new countermeasures are commonly used when setting road safety priorities. This study set out to estimate the likely benefits if Australia was to adopt a new dynamic side impact regulation similar to the current FMVSS 214 regulation in the USA or the proposed ECE Regulation 95 in Europe. These two standards are fundamentally different and likely to result in different countermeasures and benefits.

Summary

Although pedestrian injury is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, little is known about the determinants of child pedestrian injury rates. In particular we lack reliable measures of children's exposure to traffic. In collaboration with an international group this study aimed to obtain population-based estimates of children's traffic exposure, in particular the numbers of streets crossed per day, by performing a questionnaire-based survey in a random sample of primary schools in Melbourne.

Summary

When buses and automobiles are involved in a collision or emergency braking, many injuries that may occur can be attributed to passenger impact with unpadded or inadequately padded structures such as steel seat framing and stanchions.

The Australian Design Rules (ADR) provide some guidelines for the prevention of lifethreatening injuries caused by head impact, but neglect to address the problems of "lessserious" head injuries such as fractures and non-fatal facial (disfiguring) injuries.