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Every year, a number of young children in Australia are killed as a result of low-speed impact with a motor vehicle, often as a consequence of a parent or family friend unwittingly driving a motor vehicle over a child in their yard or driveway. These collisions have a devastating and lasting impact on the whole family. Prevention of driveway deaths and injuries requires an understanding of their circumstances and causal factors and increased public awareness.

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Speeding substantially reduces road safety, and despite efforts to reduce speeding it remains the norm. This research surveyed licenced drivers in metropolitan Sydney, regional NSW, and rural NSW on their attitudes, experience and behaviour in relation to speeding.  A significant group (24.0%) of respondents reported being likely to speed "under typical conditions in the middle of the day". 

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This report documents the findings from the latest survey of community attitudes to road safety. The nineteenth in a series of national surveys on community attitudes to road safety was conducted in March and April 2006. A total of 1,644 interviews were conducted with persons aged 15 years and over.

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This month's key figures

The total number of road deaths in May 2006 was 125
- this is a 13.8% decrease from the May 2005 figure.

The number of road deaths in 2006 to the end of May is 669
- this is a 0.1% increase over the same 5 month period in 2005.

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Indigenous Road Safety Forum
Broome,Western Australia
23-25 October 2006

This broad profile of road safety among Indigenous Australians was prepared as a discussion paper for the 2006 Indigenous Road Safety Forum and Working Group held in Broome, 23-25 October 2006. It comprises two sections:

A major oil spill can have a serious impact on people's livelihoods and on the environment. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has established a three-tier scheme governing liability and compensation which applies to damage resulting from spills of persistent oil (crude oil and heavy fuel oil) from oil tankers. The scheme applies to damage resulting from oil carried by oil tankers both as cargo and as fuel.