Citation

Tziotis M, Roper P, Edmonston C, Sheehan MC. Proc. ARRB Group Bienn. Conf. 2006; 22(CD-ROM).

Affiliation

ARRB Group; Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, ARRB Group)

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Abstract

Road trauma in rural and remote areas of Australia is a major national road safety problem. Although well over half of all fatal  crashes occur on roads within these environments, it has not  been until the past decade that road safety strategies and  programs have focused on these areas. In an endeavour to  provide a more comprehensive understanding of the nature and  causes of crashes in rural and remote areas, and to identify  measures and future directions that will result in reduced road  trauma, Austroads commissioned ARRB Group, in association  with CARRS-Q, to undertake a major study into safety in rural  and remote areas of Australia. The study involved the analysing  of crash data in these environments, a major literature review  and consultation.