Community attitudes to road safety : community attitudes survey wave 11 /
Consistent with previous waves, this latest survey of community attitudes towards road safety issues again shows that speeding, in particular, and drink driving are considered to be the principal factors that lead to crashes. Each of these factors is spontaneously mentioned by more than half of the...
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | English |
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Canberra :
Federal Office of Road Safety,
1998.
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| Serie: | CR ;
180. |
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| Riassunto: | Consistent with previous waves, this latest survey of community attitudes towards road safety issues again shows that speeding, in particular, and drink driving are considered to be the principal factors that lead to crashes. Each of these factors is spontaneously mentioned by more than half of the population as a major reason for road crashes. While both of these factors are clearly the most important, speed still dominates as the one single factor that people mention first when thinking about crash causes. Speed was nominated in Wave 11 by 34% of the community as the single most important cause, more than twice as often as drink driving (14%), followed by lack of concentration (13%) and fatigue (10%). This survey suggests that fatigue has increased in likelihood of being mentioned as a cause of crashes, up from 22% last year to 27% when people were asked to nominate up to three factors. The continuing high degree of awareness by the community that excessive speed leads to road crashes, plus recognition of the dangers of drink driving, carelessness, fatigue and also poor driver attitudes and inexperience, is accompanied by majority acceptance of current speed limits. Overall, Wave 11 suggests that the community is increasingly accepting of current road use regulations and of police enforcement activity. However, a sizeable minority still regularly speed when driving and believe that speed limits should not be strictly enforced. There continues to be strong community support for the introduction of 50 km/hr speed limits in local residential areas. Support this year is even stronger than last year for legislation that requires people to carry their licence at all times when driving a motor vehicle. Overall, a high 87% support this, including 72% saying they strongly approve of it. While such legislation is in force only in New South Wales, most drivers throughout the country believe it already exists in their State or Territory and are in support of it. Consistent with previous years, nearly everyone says they always wear their seat belt in the front seat (96%) and most people (88%) say they wear a belt if in the rear seat. The main topics addressed in detail in this research are speed and drink driving, with smaller sections on occupant restraints, licence carrying legislation plus accident incidence and severity. The findings are reported in depth from Section 6 onwards. 6.1. In. |
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| Descrizione del documento: | "Taverner Research Company" At head of title: Department of Transport and Regional Development, the Federal Office of Road Safety. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 55, 12 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0642255377 (pbk.) |
| ISSN: | 0810-770X 0810-770X ; |