Publication List - Centre Report Series - 1997

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No.	Author	Title	Key Words	Year /Pages
107	Newstead, S.V. Cameron, M.H. Le, C.M.	Vehicle crashworthiness ratings and crashworthiness by year of vehicle manufacture: Victoria and NSW crashes during 1987-95	Injury, vehicle occupant, collision, passenger car unit, passive safety system, statistics	1997/24p .pdf [3.1MB]
108	Harrison, W.A.	The potential for the use of psychological and situational factors in the targeting of drink-drive countermeasures	Enforcement, police, alcohol, driver behaviour, drink-driving, personality, occupation	1996/62p .pdf [365KB]
109	Kent, S. Fildes, B.	Review of Walk-With-Care: an education and advocacy program for older pedestrians	Pedestrian, elderly, education programs, advocacy, road crossing	1997/43p     .pdf [560KB]
110	Harrison, W.A. Penman, I. Pennella, J.	Investigation of traffic safety education in Victorian schools	Child, education, safety, school, survey, traffic safety education, Victoria	1997/129p .pdf [5.5MB]
111	Corben, B. Deery, H. Mullan, N. Dyte, D.	The general effectiveness of countermeasures for crashes into fixed roadside objects	Accident, roadside hazard, road design, evaluation	1997/42p .pdf [1MB]
112	Rechnitzer, G. Zou, R. Grzebieta, R.	MADYMO computer modelling of energy absorbing rear underrun barriers for heavy vehicles - a pilot study	MADYMO, safety, accident, injury, heavy vehicle, design, vehicle occupants, under-ride protection, energy absorption	1997/44p .pdf [17.3MB]
113	Day, L. Valuri, G. Ozanne-Smith, J.	General practice injury surveillance in the Latrobe Valley	Injury, injury surveillance, general practice, emergency department	1997/66p .pdf [500KB]
114	Day, L. Ozanne-Smith, J. Cassell, E. McGrath, A.	Latrobe Valley Better Health Project: Evaluation of the injury prevention program 1992-1996	Evaluation, injury prevention, community-based	1997/111p .pdf [5.3MB]
115	Newstead, S.V. Cameron, M.H.	Correlation of results from the New Car Assessment Program with real crash data	Vehicle safety, crashworthiness, crash test, injury, vehicle occupant, collision, passenger car unit, data analysis, statistical analysis	1997/48p + app .pdf [4.4MB]
116	Diamantopoulou, K. Cameron, M. Dyte, D. Harrison, W.	The relationship between demerit points accrual and crash involvement	Demerit points, crash involvement, traffic offences, driver's prior crashes, efficiency, multivariate model, relative risk, correct positives	1997/96p   .pdf [330KB]
117	Haworth, N. Bowland, L. Vulcan, P. Finch, C.	Pilot study of promotion of public breath testing	Breath test, breathalyser, cost benefit analysis, printed publicity, public relations, road user education	1997/60p   .pdf [311KB]
118	Fildes, B.	Safety of older drivers: strategy for future research and action initiatives	Drivers, elderly, health conditions, mobility, licensing, fitness to drive, testing, research, management, countermeasures	1997/53p .pdf [1MB]
120	Haworth, N. Vulcan, P. Bowland, L. Pronk, N.	Characteristics of fatal single vehicle crashes	Single vehicle accident, fatality, drink driving, marijuana, driver characteristics, vehicle, road environment, pole, vegetation	1997/52p+app .pdf [2.5MB]
121	Haworth, N. Vulcan, P. Bowland, L. Pronk, N.	Estimation of risk factors for fatal single vehicle crashes	Single vehicle accident, fatality, risk, drink driving, marijuana, driver characteristics, vehicle, road environment, pole, vegetation	1997/83p+app .pdf [2.5MB]
122	Haworth, N. Vulcan, P. Bowland, L. Pronk, N.	Fatal single vehicle crashes study: summary report	Single vehicle accident, fatality, risk, drink driving, marijuana, driver characteristics, vehicle, road environment, pole, vegetation	1997/40p .pdf [180KB]
123	Watson, W. Ozanne-Smith, J. Begg, S. Imberger, A. Ashby, K Stathakis, V.	Injuries associated with nursery furniture and bunk beds	Accidental falls, infant equipment, bunk beds, wound & injuries: prevention and control, epidemiology.	1997/129p + app .pdf [641KB]
124	Watson, W. Ozanne-Smith, J.	The cost of injury to Victoria	Wounds and injuries - Economics, cost of injury	1997/104p+app .pdf [3.2MB]
125	McGrath, A.C. Ozanne-Smith, J.	Heading injuries out of soccer: a review of the literature	Soccer, injury prevention, collisions, overuse, evaluation, countermeasures	1997/78p     .pdf [600KB]
126	Cameron, M. Diamantopoulou, K. Mullan, N. Dyte, D. Gantzer, S.	Evaluation of the country random breath testing and publicity program in Victoria, 1993-1994	Random breath testing (RBT), rural areas, booze bus, RBT operations, drink-driving, road trauma, publicity awareness, Adstock, minor road, major road	1997/60p+app .pdf [6.5MB]
127	Corben, B.F. Dyte., D. Diamantopoulou, K. Mullan, N.	Safety performance of major tourist routes - pilot study	Casualty crashes, Great Ocean Road, drivers, road improvements, education, police enforcement, tourist routes, motorcyclists, speed limits, countermeasures	1997/72p .pdf [3.9MB]