Road Safety - part 2

Question 1

What is australia vision for road safety?

Answer 1

No person should be killed or seriously injured on Australia’s roads

reduce fatalities by 30% by 2020

Question 2

What are the four main objectives for safer roads?

Answer 2

Safe Roads
Safe Speeds
Safe Vehicles
Safe People

Question 3

What can be done to produce safer speeds?

Answer 3

Speed limits
Speed Enforcement
Heavy vehicle compliance
Education 
Technology

Question 4

What are the components to producing safer vehicles?

Answer 4

Aust Design Rules
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
Collision Avoidcance
New car assessment

Question 5

What are the main components of QLD road safety action plan 2013 -5

Answer 5

Road and Roadsides
Speeds
Vehicles
Road Users
Partenerships

Question 6

At what speed do the most number of serious casualties occur?

Answer 6

60km/hr

followed by 100km/hr

Question 7

What age category has the highest road casualties?

Answer 7

17-24

Question 8

What are the road safety risk factors?

Answer 8

Sustainable transport

- Encourage more people to walk but can cause more safety concerns

Question 9

What is the public health approach?

Answer 9

What is the problem?
Identify risk factors
Potential Interventions
Implementation

Question 10

What is one way for injury prevention using haddons matrix?

Answer 10

Reduce safety risk
Reduce energy
Reduce potential
Improve emergency response

Question 11

What are some examples of interventions?

Answer 11

Manage Exposure - increase walking, reduce cars, safe walking routes, restriction on cars

Road design - best practice design for ped, medians, barriers, lower speed limits, crossings, sights distance

Traffic calming - narrowing, speed humps, raised crossings, chicanes

Education - road users, engineers