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home / centre for automotive safety research / Publications / List / Details Publication Details| Title | At scene in depth rural accident study | | Authors | Hinrichs RW | | Year | 1987 | | Type | Conference Paper | | Abstract | Rural road accidents account for more than half of South Australia's road deaths and it appears that the proportion is increasing. We know from existing mass data that rural crashes are different in many ways to metropolitan crashes. They tend to involve more accidents where cars run off the road and hit fixed objects (usually trees) and commonly involved roll over. In the metropolitan area accidents appear to be more rear collision or right angle accidents and in the country accidents tend to be more severe. Little research has been done on the real causes of rural road accidents. At the moment a national study of aspects of rural road accidents is under way. As part of this study the National Health and Medical Road Accident Research Unit has been commissioned to undertake an indepth study into a sample of SA rural road crashes. | | Publisher | Road Accident Research Unit | | Publisher City | Adelaide | | Sponsor | Department of Transport (SA), Road Safety Division | | Conference Name | National Road Safety Researchers Conference | | Conference Abbreviation | RSR | | Conference Location | Adelaide, Australia | | Conference Date | 28 November 1986 | | Page Count | 2 |
| Reference | | Hinrichs RW (1987). At scene in depth rural accident study. National Road Safety Researchers Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 28 November 1986. |
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