The shocking truth about road trauma
Useful sites
World report on road traffic injury prevention (World Health Organization)
Reports how unsafe road traffic systems are a serious threat to public health and development.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Kids and road injuries (Health Matters, 8 June 2006)
Summarises the behaviour of children of different ages in relation to road safety.
Trauma/spinal injuries/physiotherapy before major joint surgery (The Health Report, 5 April 2004)
Discusses what can be done to reduce the number of traffic deaths and injuries and how we can effectively deal with trauma.
Road safety (Australian Transport Safety Bureau)
Provides a range of information about many aspects of road safety.
The National Road Safety Strategy 2001-2010 (Australian Transport Council)
Presents a national framework for road safety initiatives. The target of the strategy is to reduce the annual number of road fatalities per 100,000 population by 40 per cent.
Motoring Directions (Australian Automobile Association)
A magazine covering topics of interest to motorists. For example, articles in a recent issue included 'Road safety – changing attitudes' and 'Building safer cars'. Each issue is available in PDF format.
Crash safety (Safe Drive Training, Australia)
A chatty coverage of safe driving, crash statistics, new vehicle safety systems and the importance of loading your car safely.
ANCAP crash tests (NRMA, Australia)
The Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) carries out crash tests to compare how well cars protect drivers and passengers in serious front and side crashes. From this page, you can check results of crash tests on a particular make and model of car, or look at a category of car (eg, small cars, 4WDs).
Primary and secondary data sources for the study of road crashes in Australia (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
Documents the variety and relative usefulness of road crash databases, and suggests ways the databases could be improved.
2001 Road Safety Conference papers (Monash University, Australia)
Australia's National Crash In-depth Study progress report
Presents results of a study looking at vehicle crash performance and occupant injuries.
Achieving the national strategy target
Discusses the challenge in reducing road fatalities by 40 per cent by 2010 and reviews methods being pursued in Europe.
Vision Zero requires five star road safety system
Discusses the ramifications of achieving zero fatality on our roads and the changes in attitude, advances in technology and massive investments that will be required.
Emergency Response Equipment Receptacles (ERER)
Describes a project to place five large stainless steel containers containing emergency response equipment (ERER) along a thousand kilometres of the Eyre Highway to support victims of road crashes.
Page updated July 2006.