CR 44: Primary school road safety curricula: a review of Australian materials and practices (1986)

Review of primary school road safety education materials and practices in the categories of pedestrian, bicycle, restraint usage and alcohol and safety. Developers and teachers of road safety were surveyed. The major materials were collated and the instructional design of the materials analysed.

CR 42: Policing the drink driver—random breath testing and the process of deterrence (1986)

A theoretical model of the process of general deterrence is constructed, and tested against data collected as part of an evaluation of the impact of the introduction of random breath testing (RBT) in New South Wales, Australia in December 1982.

CR 53: Implementation of graduated licensing for young drivers (1986)

Neilson Associates Pty Ltd was commissioned by FORS to develop workable proposals for the implementation of graduated driver licensing (GDL) and suggest a course of action for the implementation of GDL.

CR 52: Survey of community attitudes (1986)

Touche Ross Services was commissioned by FORS to develop core questions and administrative mechanisms for running bi-annual, national surveys on community attitudes to road safety, and to administer the first survey. This is a report of results from the first survey.

CR 41: Drug involvement in fatal crashes in Melbourne (1986)

Information about drug use was collected from drivers and pedestrians involved in road crashes in Melbourne in which a driver or pedestrian was killed. This involved analysis of body fluid from 191 fatalities combined with other information about drug use from police files.

CR 39: Human factors and road crashes: A review of their relationship (1985)

Research findings within each of the major 'human factor' areas of road safety research are reviewed. Attention is confined to research relevant to the prevention of road crashes rather than to the amelioration of their effects.

CR 38: Hazardous road locations: procedural guidelines (1985)

This project was commissioned to determine a practical and effective procedurefor identifying and ranking of hazardous road locations.

CR 37: Hazardous road locations: final report (1985)

This project was commissioned to determine a practical and effective procedure for the identification and ranking of hazardous road locations throughout Australia.

CR 35: Bicycle crashes in the ACT (1985)

This retrospective study focussed on bicycle crashes which resulted in admission to hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory between July 1979 and June 1983. Hospital in-patient morbidity statistics were supplemented by information from a mailed questionnaire and police accident reports.

OR 2: Fitting and Wearing of Seat Belts in Australia: The History of a Successful Countermeasure

From 1925 when road accident data for Australia were first published till 1979, over 100, 000 road users were killed and 2.2 mlllion injured. Nevertheless, motor vehicle travel is much safer today than it was fifty pears ago.