Summary

This broad profile of road safety among Indigenous Australians was prepared as a draft discussion paper for the Indigenous Road Safety Forum and Working Group held at Alice Springs, 27-28 September 2004. It comprises two distinct sections:

Summary

The total number of road deaths in April 2005 was 125
- this is a 1.6% increase over the April 2004 figure.

The number of road deaths in 2005 to the end of April is 516
- this is a 2.6% decrease from the same 4 month period in 2004.

Summary

The over-involvement of young drivers in road crashes is widely understood in Australia to be a most serious and to date largely intractable road safety problem. Young people aged 15-24 make up 15% of the population but account for 31% of fatalities.

Summary

Survey Methodology and Aim

This document reports the findings from a national survey of 1,286 people aged 15 years and over, conducted in May/early June 1996. The survey is Wave 9 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. The previous survey in the series was Wave 8, conducted 12 months earlier.

Summary

In 1994 more pedestrians died on Australian roads than did motorcyclists and pedal cyclists combined [did passengers in vehicles]. Attempts to reduce the number of pedestrian casualties have concentrated on preventing the collision from occurring. This is because it has been assumed, incorrectly, that little could be done to reduce the severity of the injuries sustained by a pedestrian when struck by a car.

Summary

This report compares the road safety performance of individual age classes of Australian drivers. Age differences are examined in drivers" propensity for involvement in serious crashes after allowing for differences in driving exposure and differences in vulnerability to death from crash injuries. Age differences are also examined in recent driver fatality trends and inferences drawn about the relative contributions in each age class deriving from improved road safety and from shifts in external factors of population size and driver's licence ownership.

Summary

This study was initiated to undertake a cost benefit analysis of equipping the coaches in the Australian fleet, as at 30 June 1994, with a range of occupant protection measures as outlined in the Code of Practice (Bleakly 1994). The amount of data on bus crashes in Australia is limited. There is no data readily available on coach crashes. For this reason it was assumed that the coach crash number was in the same proportion as the number of coaches in the bus fleet. A range of occupant protection packages and scrappage rates were applied.

Summary

The purpose of the research was to examine the effect that the education program Out and About had on the behaviour of child pedestrians as they travelled to and from Darwin primary schools. The study primarily focussed on children's level of compliance to road crossing behavioural elements. Pre and post education observation sessions were conducted at 16 schools, resulting in 3198 subject observations.