AN EVALUATION OF THE GENERAL EFFECT OF THE NEW ZEALAND GRADUATED DRIVER LICENSING SYSTEM ON MOTORCYCLE TRAFFIC CRASH HOSPITALISATIONS
In 1987, New Zealand introduced a comprehensive Graduated Driver Licensing System (GDLS) which was designated to allow new drivers to gain experience while being excluded from high risk situations. This paper reports on a study that sought to evaluate the impact of the GDLS on motorcycle traffic crashes that resulted in serious injury. Injury data were obtained from the New Zealand Health Information Services national public hospital inpatient data files for the years 1978-1994, inclusive. Cases were disaggregated into three age groups, 15-19 years, 20-24 years, and 25 years or older, for which injury trends were obtained. In order to determine whether trends in motorcycle traffic crashes simply followed national trends in other injury events, two non-traffic comparison groups for the main target group (15-19 years) were included. The results were evaluated using time series analyses.
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Authors:
- REEDER, A I
- ALSOP, J C
- Langley, J D
- Wagenaar, A C
- Publication Date: 1999-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 651-661
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Serial:
- Accident Analysis & Prevention
- Volume: 31
- Issue Number: 6
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0001-4575
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash victims; Driver licensing; Hospital emergency rooms; Motorcyclists; Time series analysis; Traffic crashes
- Geographic Terms: New Zealand
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00769668
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Sep 9 1999 12:00AM