Air bag restraints for automobile drivers. Volume I - system description and performance. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Saving teenage lives : the case for graduated driver licensing.

"November 1998"--P. [4] of cover.

Graduate to safety : official parent teen workbook and driving log.

Pages are printed parallel to inner margin.

Statewide teen fatality report /

Title from cover.

Delineation of hazards for older drivers.

"July 1997."

Delineation of hazards for older drivers.

"July 1997."

Traffic operations control for older drivers /

"FHWA-RD-94-119."

Traffic maneuver problems of older drivers : final technical report /

"August 1993."

Surveillance methods and ways and means of communicating with drivers. Prepared for: National Academy of Sciences, Highway Research Board.

"Contract no. HR-63-3-2."

Hazard detection in older adult drivers

Older adults make up an increasing propordon of automobile drivers in Australia. Despite the fact that older drivers generally drive much less than younger drivers, there is a disdnct increase in accidents, fatalides and injuries in drivers over age 65 (per actual kilometres driven). Accurate means of screening older adults to idendfy those at increased risk of motor vehicle accidents have proved elusive. Neuropsychological assessment and clinical examinadon are not well-correlated with accident risk. On-road tesdng, which is more highly correlated with accident risk, is expensive and dme-consuming, as well as being less suitable as a screening process. Hazard percepdon methods have been used as an effecdve screening method for idendfying younger adults at increased risk of accidents. A brief video-based hazard percepdon screening test involving footage of genuine traffic hazards for use on older individuals will be presented.

Challenges for rural and remote road safety

The growing national and international awareness of the increased representation of serious injuries and fatalities in rural and remote areas is the focus of this paper. Australia was one of the earliest countries to try to address this issue with a targeted national action plan in 1996. This was an important document but the most recent national plan fails to dedicate attention to developing countermeasures for the particular problems of improving road safety in these regions. The findings of a major program of research in Northern Queensland are discussed to stimulate interest and research into potential countermeasures. Specifically, the need to monitor clusters of crashes as a focus for intervention and local ownership is advocated. Taking action towards a national reduction of speed limits on rural roads and investment in proactive research based trials of drink driving countermeasures such as courtesy buses is strongly advocated.

Efecto de la magnitud y la probabilidad de la pérdida en el riesgo asumido por los conductores

Se analiza el efecto de la magnitud de la probabilidad de la pérdida en el riesgo asumido por 60 conductores, de edades comprendidas entre los 19 y los 44 años (Media = 23.38; SD = 4.78), en un programa de simulación de conducción. Tanto las teorías basa as en la utilidad esperada, como los modelos basados en la Teoría del Aprendizaje, predicen una relación inversa entre dichas variables y el riesgo asumido. Los resultados de nuestro estudio corroboran tales predicciones en cuanto a la probabilidad de la pérdida: el riesgo asumido disminuye a medida que aumenta la probabilidad de la pérdida. El riesgo asumido, en cambio, parece ser independiente de la magnitud de la probabilidad de la pérdida. De acuerdo con estos resultados, resultaría más efectivo aumentar el control para garantizar el cumplimiento de las normas de circulación que incrementar la cuantía de las sanciones por su incumplimiento