REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY GENERALLY: INCLUDING: DRINK DRIVING; DRIVER ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOUR; SPEED; AND DISREGARD OF ROAD LAW AS A FACTOR IN CRASHES

In mid-1983, the Standing Committee on Road Safety, in conjunction with the Office of Road Safety developed a road safety questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to give the committee a clear picture of concerns felt by the public on a wide range of road safety issues. Of the twelve issues nominated in the questionnaire four were identified as being of major concern. These four are, in order of concern: (1) drink driving, (2) driver attitude and behaviour, (3) speed, and (4) disregard of road rules. The committee draws attention to a previous recommendation of the committee that: commonwealth and state governments support the development of mechanical devices to deter drunk driving and, when perfected, require that they be fitted to the vehicles of recalcitrant drivers, at their own expense, as a pre-requisite to any renewal of their driving licences. This committee concludes that further research to develop interlock devices could make a worthwhile contribution to the elimination of drink-driving. The committee believes that a set of standardised statistics should be devised and collected throughout Australia to provide a more substantial road safety data base for Australia. Road safety research priorities should be developed at a national level by a commonwealth-state cooperative body. Based on adequately researched road safety priorities, a program of short and long-term measures should be developed at a national level by a commonwealth-state cooperative body. This body should plan, coordinate and in some cases develop road safety programs at the national level. (TRRL)

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    Australian Government Publishing Service

    109 Canberra Avenue
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  • Publication Date: 1984-10

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  • Features: Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: 99 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00395986
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: ARRB
  • ISBN: 0-644-03761-X
  • Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
  • Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
  • Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM