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Sunday, January 27, 2013

Road Policing Statistics 2012

During the 12 months ended December 2011 there were 1,292 deaths. This was a 4.4 per cent decrease from the 12-monthly period ending December 2010. The rate of annual deaths per 100 000 population presently stands at 5.7. This is a 5.8 per cent decrease from the 12-monthly period ending December 2010 (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

Over the last decade, national annual fatalities decreased by 21 per cent, fatalities per population decreased by 32 per cent, and counts of fatal crashes decreased by 21 per cent. The decline was weaker during the middle of the decade but has accelerated significantly over the last three years (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

The 17–25 age group has the largest rate of fatalities per population. It accounts for 13 per cent of the population but 25 per cent of deaths. Over the decade however, the rate for this group has declined faster than the total (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

Across jurisdictions the rate of deaths per population are somewhat varied, with the three largest jurisdictions achieving some of the lowest rates. The trends are not linear, and, as with deaths all jurisdictions (apart from the Australian Capital Territory) have seen rates fall significantly over the last three years (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

All types of fatal crash are decreasing. Single vehicle crashes (no pedestrian involved) currently account for 44 per cent of the total. Ten years ago the proportion was 41 per cent (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

Road crashes still cause some 1,400 deaths and 32,500 serious injuries each year. The social impacts are devastating - and the annual cost to the Australian economy is estimated to be $27 billion (Australian Transport Council, n.d).

Between Jan 2009 and Dec 2010, 47.4% of the fatal crashes occurred at speeds over 100km/h (Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, 2011).

Illegal or inappropriate speeds are major contributing factors in about 34 per cent of Australian road deaths and 13 per cent of serious injuries (Australian Transport Council, n.d.).

Motorcyclists are heavily over-represented in serious crash statistics. They make up 17 per cent of all road deaths, and 22 per cent of total serious injuries (Australian Transport Council, n.d.).

Certain behavioral factors continue to be implicated in many serious casualty crashes. For all fatalities speeding accounts for 34%, drink driving 30%, drug driving 7%, restraint non-use 20% and fatigue 20-30%. For all serious injuries speeding accounts for 13 per cent, drink driving 9%, drug driving 2%, restraint non-use 4 % and fatigue 8% (Australian Transport Council, n.d.).

Heavy trucks and buses make up only three per cent of the vehicle fleet, but are involved in 18 per cent of all road fatalities — about 250 deaths each year (Australian Transport Council, n.d ).

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Horror toll prompts road blitz

Police will flood WA's roads with marked cars and speed cameras in a four-day long-weekend blitz after the road toll climbed to 19 deaths in the first three weeks of the year.

Senior WA traffic officer Cdr Kim Papalia said overtime had been approved and officers recalled to ensure police were out in force on city and country roads at the weekend.

As thousands of people take to the roads during the double demerit points period, Cdr Papalia warned that traffic police would focus on speeding, drivers also would be tested for drugs and alcohol.

"You will be seeing an increased police presence because we will be using extra hours to get extra police on the road," Cdr Papalia said. Cdr Papalia warned to expect sequence cameras - one speed camera after another on the same road.

He said police asked people not only to think of their own lives but also the lives of other road users when driving at the weekend, with the death toll at its highest in recent years.

"I'm tired of our people having to do death notifications. This year has been a very sad start to the year for 19 families and beyond that the serious crashes we've had," Cdr Papalia said.

"Our message will be, we will be out there to enforce the road rules, we will look to improve driver behaviour on the roads . . . the intent is to try and check people's behaviour."

The WA double demerit period begins at 12.01am tomorrow and ends at 11.59pm on Monday.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

SA Road Toll 93

South Australia has achieved its lowest road toll since records were kept, with serious injuries also reaching record lows.

SA Minister for Road Safety Jennifer Rankine said 93 lives were tragically lost on the State’s roads.

Previously, the record low was in 2008 when 99 people died.

“Not only has there been a significant decrease in the number of deaths, but for the first time, serious injuries have dropped below 800. Ten years ago, this figure was more than 1500,” Ms Rankine said.

“While this reduction in both deaths and serious injuries reflects a considerable achievement, there are still 93 families who are devastated by the loss of their loved ones.”

In 1974, the road toll peaked at 382 and during the 1980s about 250 lives were lost each year.

“A decade ago, our road toll was 152. Since then, vehicle manufacturers and communities have worked closely with the Government to introduce many life-saving initiatives,” she said.

“While we have come a long way, there’s still a long way to go.”

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Saturday, January 5, 2013

NSW Road Toll By Region

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How NSW aims to reduce the 2012 road toll

In 1965 car accidents killed 1151 people in NSW. In 2012 car accidents were responsible for 370 deaths.

There are three broad ways to cut the road toll further, transport bureaucrats and other experts say: these involve changes in drivers, roads and cars. With regard toTHE DRIVER, Speed kills. So do alcohol and drugs, but speed kills more. Last year speed was a factor in about 40 per cent of fatalities in NSW, about the same as the year before. (Alcohol is a factor in 19 per cent of deaths and has been for about a decade.)

In NSW, Barry O'Farrell's government is doing something to compel motorists to slow down, committing to a massive expansion in the use of speed cameras.

From this year the number of mobile speed cameras in NSW - which move from location to location - will gradually increase from six to 45, while the number of speed cameras attached to red lights in the state will more than double from 90 to 200.

''We won't make more significant gains [bringing the toll down] until we get our speed camera program,'' says the general manager of Transport for NSW's Centre for Road Safety, Marg Prendergast, adding that she is ''thrilled'' with the program Gay has announced.

But some safety experts lament that Gay has gone only half way. ''While the introduction of extra speed cameras is good, it's got to go further and we've got to have covert speed cameras,'' the chairman of road safety at the Transport and Road Safety Research unit at the University of NSW, Raphael Grzebieta, says.

Covert or unmarked speed cameras are used in Victoria. But Gay's inclination is to tack the opposite way, ensuring there will be no shortage of signs wherever one of the new cameras may be in use.

''I don't want people's money, I don't want their licence, I want to save their lives,'' he says. ''If you get caught in one of our new mobile cameras you're either dumb or determined.''

Nevertheless, signposted or not, speed cameras work. They make motorists drive more slowly, which means they are less likely to have an accident. A survey by the auditor-general in 2011 demonstrated that on average fixed speed cameras in NSW reduced the number of fatalities in their area by 67 per cent in the three years after installation. Putting police on the road works as well.

Last year Gay's department, Roads and Maritime Services, and the police conducted a number of high-profile raids on trucking companies and drivers who tampered with their vehicles so they could exceed the speed limit.

The minister said police had reported a 40 per cent fall in the number of speeding heavy vehicles since the operation.

The number of fatal accidents involving heavy vehicles increased last year from 63 to 73 in 2012. But the bulk of those were in the early part of the year. ''Targeting operators, targeting generally, peer pressure within the industry has worked a treat,'' Gay says.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Police speed blitz nabs over 1500 in Central Queensland

MORE than 1500 speeding tickets have been issued across the central region during the past 10 days.

The latest figures from the Queensland Police Service's Christmas Road Safety Campaign revealed some 300 speeders had been caught, by camera and other means, since Sunday.

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QLD - 4 new speed cams nab 16,555 on first 17 days

A bank of four speed cameras has been installed on the reverse side of the Smith St overpass at Gaven on the Gold Coast, recording the speed of every northbound car.

The cameras are identical to those further north on the M1, at Logan, where cameras on the reverse side of the Logan Motorway overpasshave raised millions of dollars in revenue since going live in 2011.

Those cameras nabbed 11,655 speeding motorists in their first 17 days of operation and boosted the number of speeding offences detected.

Police statistics show fixed speed cameras in the South East District issued 10,351 tickets in 2010-11, compared to 131,829 in 2011-12, the year the Logan camera began operating.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

More Speed Cameras rolled out in 2013 in NSW

IT is set to be the year of the speed camera in NSW, with more of the despised devices rolled out than ever before.

Government tender documents show that, from this month, new cameras will be deployed, including 39 extra mobile speed cameras - with 2358 new mobile speed camera locations - and 6070 extra hours of enforcement per month.

By the end of 2014 there will also be 109 extra red light-speed cameras at intersections and 45 existing red light cameras will now also be capable of catching speeding motorists.

The state opposition will make significant mileage from the new cameras, particularly after vows when the Coalition was in opposition that it would reduce speed camera numbers.

There has been a 12.5 per cent increase in the number speeding fines issued during the Coalition's time in office.

"The figures are staggering. More than 2000 new mobile speed camera locations and a doubling of red light cameras, on top of a massive 12.5 per cent increase in fines.

"When speed comes down fatalities come down," he said.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Great Personalised Safe Driving Campaign from TAC Vic

Historically, the last 12 days of the year have resulted in the highest road fatalities for the year so it is great to see some great campaigns for the different states, i particularly like this one from TAC in Victoria

For the next three weeks, Victorians can remind someone they know to drive #Homesafely, with a personalised billboard near where they live check it out at #Homesafely

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Road Safety Magic on the Golf Course

In the busy world we all occupy it is it all too easy to get lost in our own particular spheres of specialisation, but when a diverse group of road safety stake holders covering insurance, academia, campaigning and experts came together for the SpeedAlert golf day at Oatlands Golf Course all sorts of magic happened with some really interesting conversations started and ideas sparked, there where even moments of magic on the greens with some sensational putts holed. The evening wrapped up with a magnificent dinner at the beautifully refurbished Oatlands house arranged by the talented folks at Navarra Venues.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Speed-alert & incentives curb speeding says studies

As crash avoidance features make their way into mainstream vehicles, one advanced technology to help drivers avoid speeding-related crashes is still on the sidelines. It’s called
intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) or Speed Alerting

To promote the technology, the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) counts ISA systems as one of the safety features automakers can use to qualify vehicles for Euro NCAP Advanced. Models that have earned the designation so far haven’t been fitted with an ISA (go to www.euroncap.com/rewards.aspx). In the

Although ISA systems haven’t been deployed on a large scale on private vehicles in the United States or Europe, the devices have been studied for more than 20 years. Several studies, including two recently published ones, point to potential benefits.Warnings and financial incentives In field studies, advisory ISA systems are sometimes coupled with economic incentives to not speed. Researchers who conducted the first naturalistic driving study of ISAs in the U.S. concluded that drivers who received modest cash incentives for not speeding

The study by researchers at NHTSA, Old Dominion University and Western Michigan University involved 50 drivers ages 24-39 with at least five years of driving experience. Participants drove study-provided vehicles fitted with an ISA for four weeks. Forty drivers received speed alerts. A subset of these were paid as much as $25 to drive within 4 mph of the speed limit in weeks 2-3. They lost money if they sped. A control group of 10 drivers didn’t get alerts or cash.Drivers in the incentive group reduced the percentage of time they drove 9 mph or more over the limit to less than 1 percent, compared with about 5 percent in the baseline period. Drivers in the control and warning-only groups traveled 9 mph or more over the speed limit as much as 9 percent of the time.“The findings have implications for the use of intelligent speed adaptation systems in conjunction with insurancepremiums to significantly improve traffic safety,” the authors conclude.

In Denmark, researchers from Aalborg University and Copenhagen University evaluated an ISA combining speed advisories with insurance discounts and found that linking an ISA to incentives can reduce speeding. The greatest reductions were on roads with 80 kph (50 mph) limits. The calculated proportion of distance above the speed limit dropped from 13 percent in the baseline period to just below 4 percent in the study period. When drivers turned off the system, speeding relapsed to the baseline level. The 2007-09 field trial included 153 drivers ages 18-81
who drove their own vehicles fitted with an ISA

A 2009 Institute study found that equipping the cars teens drive with monitoring devices that provide
real-time feedback can reduce their risks behind the wheel (see Status Report, May 7, 2009, at iihs.org).

“The effects of external motivation and real-time automated feedback on speeding behavior in a naturalistic setting” by I.J. Reagan et al. appears in the May 31, 2012, online issue of Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

“Pay as you speed, ISA with incentives for not speeding: results and interpretation of speed data” by H. Lahrmann et al. is in the September 2012 issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention.

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Will Insurers Soon Pay us Not to Speed?

Would you speed if you were paid not to?
That's the thrust of a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA

) showing that motorists followed speed limits when offered financial perks.

The study, conducted by researchers from Old Dominion University in Virginia and Western Michigan University, focused on 50 people who drove cars equipped with GPS trackers designed to monitor speed. Drivers who didn't go over the limit received $25 each week.

But motorists who drove 5 to 8 mph too fast were penalized three cents each time. If they went 9 mph or more above the limit, the penalty doubled to six cents.

"This had a robust effect in getting drivers to reduce their speeding," says Ian Reagan, the study's lead researcher and now a senior researcher for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety "Egregious speeding, driving 9 or more mph over the limit, was just about eliminated for those that had the incentive" not to speed.

Auto insurers advised to provide incentives

Insurers should consider rewarding policyholders if they obey speed limits, which would reduce traffic accidents, deaths and injuries, and the resulting auto claims and health coverage costs, says James Bliss, an Old Dominion University professor and one of the NHTSA study's key researchers.

Another option could be a discount on premiums, similar to how pay-as-you-go, or usage-based insurance, policies work. While pay-as-you-go (PAYG)depends on drivers plugging a device into their cars to monitor performance, ISA technology in the future would likely be installed in new model cars as a standard crash-avoidance featureDrivers would likely use either ISA technology or a usage-based system, but not both, because both monitor speed.

The pay-as-you-go roadmap

The study's results do seem to mirror the pay-as-you-go model - a hot trend in the auto insurance industry. Under PAYG, insurers give qualifying motorists premium discounts -- as much as 30 to 40% in some cases -- by installing devices in their cars that track driving habits and mileage. The safer and less you drive, the bigger the discount, according to insurers.

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pay-as-you-go insurance is on the up as economy is down

As job growth stalls and household budgets shrink, more drivers are warming up to cost-cutting "pay-as-you-go" car insurance programs where in the USA it's possible to save up to 30 percent on car insurance rates.

Car insurance companies in USA respond to demand

Two of the nation's biggest insurers are now responding to this growing demand for pay-as-you-go coverage.

A few weeks ago, State Farm – the country's largest insurer – announced plans to introduce a new telematics-based effort dubbed In-Drive to drivers in Illinois. Additional states are slated to receive In-Drive in 2012.

Allstate – the nation's third-largest insurer – also recently expanded its Drive Wise pay-as-you-go program to Ohio and Arizona after an earlier rollout in Illinois.

It's no coincidence that pay-as-you-go insurance is on the upswing at a time when the economy is in a downward spiral, according to Robert Passmore, spokesperson for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).

"A lot of companies are offering it, and a lot of people are driving less and looking for ways to save money," he says.

Initially, privacy advocates raised concerns about these devices and their ability to snoop on drivers. But the success of programs such as Progressive's Snapshot and a GMAC Insurance program based on OnStar technology apparently has convinced more insurers that pay-as-you-go insurance is the wave of the future.

"It's really about rewarding those better, safer drivers, and the technology is now in place to do that," says Dan Kraft, Allstate director of new products and service development accountability.

Lori Conarton, a spokesperson for the Insurance Institute of Michigan, says pay-as-you-go programs make sense at a time when people are looking for cheap car insurance in an increasingly frugal America.

"The whole idea of paying only for the coverage you actually use is attractive to consumers," says Conarton..

She also says drivers today like the idea of having their insurance costs "tied more directly to their individual behavior" instead of watching passively as their rates are determined by an insurer's risk profile.

The future of pay-as-you-go car insurance

Although pay-as-you-go insurance is just now catching on, advocates have been pushing it for years as a way to both save customers money and to achieve other social benefits, such as reducing traffic fatalities and cutting back on pollutants that contribute to global warming.

A 2008 study by the Brookings Institution noted that, "Just as an all-you-can-eat restaurant encourages more eating, all-you-can-drive insurance pricing encourages more driving. That means more accidents, congestion, carbon emissions, local pollution, and dependence on oil."

Kraft believes drivers who choose pay-as-you-go automobile insurance coverage to save a buck during hard times will stick with the program long after the economy heals itself. And Passmore still sees room for the trend to grow.

"If people like it and perceive it as a value and save money, why not?" Passmore asks.

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USA -Studies Show That Speed Alert Devices Reduce Speeding

In a November newsletter, The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) highlighted several studies that show speed-alert (ISA) devices are effective in reducing speeding when they are combined with coverage incentives.

These systems Offer Plenty of Benefits

Studies of ISA systems have shown that they can be extremely effective when they are used in combination with insurance incentives. A two-year study by Aalborg University and Copenhagen University discovered that ISA systems combined with insurance discounts leads to less speeding.

The study found that drivers drove above the speed 13 percent of the time when ISA systems were not used. When an ISA was installed in their car and their performance was linked to an insurance discount for fewer speed notifications the rate of speeding dropped to four percent.

Another study which was collaboration between Western Michigan University, Old Dominion University and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) found very similar results. The 50 participating drivers included 40 whose cars were outfitted with ISA systems. A percentage of that 40 drivers were paid up to $25 to stay within 4 mph of the speed limit and if they sped they lost money. The final 10 drivers did not have an ISA system and did not receive any cash.

Drivers who had an ISA system combined with the cash incentives almost never drove 9 mph or more over the speed limit, doing this less than 1 percent of the time they were behind the wheel.

Drivers who did not have a warning system or cash incentives as well as the drivers who only had the ISA system but no incentives drove 9 mph over the limit around 9 percent of the time.

ISA systems have been proven to reduce speeding, especially when combined with insurance incentives.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

NSW- Funding cuts to the Centre for Road Safety

NSW Government is cutting funding to the Centre for Road Safety The Minister for Roads, Duncan Gay has confirmed that 42 workers have been cut from the Centre for Road Safety as part of more than 680 job cuts to be rolled out over the next four years across the Department of Roads and Maritime Services. Already this year, 355 people have died on NSW roads compared with 339 road related deaths in 2011.

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UK - New report suggests older drivers are safe

A new report by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) in the UK suggests that older drivers are as safe as drivers from all other age groups, and perhaps more so. The study shows older drivers have better attitudes to safety, deal with hazards better than young drivers and use experience to increase their safety margins on the road. The report reveals that drivers over 75 react just as quickly as other age groups when a vehicle emerges from a side road or if the car in front brakes suddenly on a rural road. Official statistics show that people over 70 make up 9% of drivers but 6% of driver casualties.

This study found that where older drivers had slower reaction times, they used their experience on the road to compensate and drive at slower speeds on all occasions, as well as keeping bigger distances between vehicles than drivers from other age groups.

But while the study found little difference in driving performance across the ages, it did highlight two areas of concern. Compared with other age groups, the eldest group appeared to stop short of the stop line at junctions and not look as often as others before pulling out. Older drivers also failed to look in their rear view mirror as much as other age groups on the motorway.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Australia leading the way in investigating the link between remuneration and safety in trucking

Australia leading the way in investigating the link between truckies remuneration and safety in the road transport industry.

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths will be investigated by a new government body as it looks for a link between road safety and the pay and conditions of the nation's truck drivers.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) released on Monday its first annual work program and the framework of its inquiry into pay and conditions in the industry and safety.

After submissions from industry groups, individuals, unions and other interested parties the RSRT selected a number of sectors to be investigated.

These sectors include retail, livestock, bulk grain, interstate long distance and intrastate long distance.

An RSRT spokeswoman said it was the first time in the world a nation-wide inquiry would be held on the link between remuneration of road transport workers and safety.

"It is a world first on a national scale," she said.

"Australia is really leading the way in this sort of tribunal to really look at the link between remuneration and safety in the road transport industry."

The Transport Workers Union (TWU), which campaigned for the retail sector to be investigated, has welcomed the decision to look at each sector individually.

"We think this has got the real potential to change behaviour in really key supply chains in the industry," TWU assistant national secretary Michael Kaine said.

"Importantly the tribunal resisted the temptation to just deal discreetly with particular issues like waiting time or rates and have decided to take a sector by sector approach.

"The important thing is by taking a sector approach they're focusing on the entire supply chain and the pressures that lead to these issues in the first place."

Mr Kaine said road safety issues to do with driver fatigue and the use of artificial substances to stay awake were more prevalent in the retail sector because of unrealistic deadlines.

The retail sector also accounted for just under a third of all transport jobs.

"In the retail sector they will have squarely in their sights the commercial pressures put on the trucking industry by the likes of Coles and how to address those," he said.

The Australian Logistics Council which represented retailers during draft submissions said it was not surprised that the RSRT decided to place a heavy focus on the sector.

"The major retailers, like all parties in the supply chain, are committed to achieving positive road safety outcomes and to meeting their Chain of Responsibility obligations," ALC managing director Michael Kilgariff said.

"This is demonstrated by the retailers' participation in the ALC Retail Logistics Supply Chain Code of Practice.

"It should be noted there has been encouraging progress in recent years to reduce the number of heavy vehicle fatalities in Australia against the backdrop of an increasing freight task."

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Running Red Lights - A serious and deadly problem

Graphic footage shows what can happen if you push your luck with a red light (Watch Video)

426 VIC drivers booked for running red lights every day that $47m pa
152 NSW drivers booked for running red lights every day thats $19m pa

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East Coast Motoring fines where $717m last year

East Coast Motoring fines where $717m last year

NSW $213m
VIC $343m
QLD $160m

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Safe Driving Seniors and Speeding Grannies

Statistically they're safe drivers, but people over 75 are caught in a world that's moving faster as their reflexes are slowing down.

But what's the answer? Do we make it harder for them to keep their licenses or change the rules so it's easier for them to stay safe on the roads?

Now, under controversial new plans, more people over 75 will be on our roads for longer. The suggestions include replacing ‘Give way’ signs with green and red arrows; dedicated merging lanes becoming common place and bigger; and better designed signs added to our road networks to specifically help older drivers.

A new study by the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland suggesting governments should modify road rules to suit the elderly's diminishing ability.

But former MP Peter Lawlor says “The independence and convenience of an older driver shouldn't outweigh the safety of the community - and it's just that simple,”

Dr Mark King from Carrs-Q believes older drivers are more likely than middle-aged or younger drivers to have a crash at intersections with stop or give way signs.

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