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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | Pedestrian accidents on arterial roads | | Authors | McLean AJ, Anderson RWG, Farmer MJB | | Year | 1996 | | Type | Journal Article | | Abstract | Most pedestrian accidents in the Adelaide metropolitan area occur on arterial roads. This has been so or at least three decades despite changes in arterial road layout and traffic control measures which have reduced the hazards confronting the careful pedestrian. The nature of the pedestrian's task when deciding whether it is safe to attempt to cross an arterial road is considered with reference to locations at which pedestrian accidents occurred. The importance of the travelling speed of the vehicle in determining the risk of a collision with a pedestrian and the severity of the resulting injuries is then illustrated with reference to a series of fatal pedestrian accidents on arterial roads. It is concluded that small differences in travelling speed can result in large differences in impact speed in pedestrian/vehicle collisions and that a return to the original urban area speed limit of 50 km/h on arterial roads has the potential to reduce pedestrian fatalities by about 30% on those roads. | | Sponsor | Federal Office of Road Safety of the Australian Department of Transport | | Journal Title | Highway Engineering in Australia | | Conference Name | 8th National Conference Australian Institute of Traffic Planning an Management | | Conference Abbreviation | AITPM | | Conference Location | Adelaide, Australia | | Conference Date | 8-9 June, 1995 | | Journal Volume (Issue) | 28(1) | | Page Range | 10-17 | | Page Count | 6 | | Notes | Available from CASR library on request |
| Reference | | McLean AJ, Anderson RWG, Farmer MJB (1996). Pedestrian accidents on arterial roads. Highway Engineering in Australia, 28(1), 10-17. |
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