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    A comparison of the pedestrian passive safety performance of the new vehicle fleet in Australia, France and the United Kingdom
    (Victorian Dept of Justice, 2007) Ponte, G.; Anderson, R.; Searson, D.; Australian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference (2007 : Melbourne, Australia); William Gibbons,; Centre for Automotive Safety Research
    Improvements to frontal vehicle design can improve a pedestrian's chance of survival in a collision but there are no design rules pertaining to pedestrian protection in Australia. Some overseas regulators are mandating a minimum level of pedestrian safety, and one consequence of this might be a flow of safer designs into the Australian vehicle fleet. To assess this, the distribution of pedestrian safety performance in the new car fleet of Australia was compared to those of France and the United Kingdom. A greater proportion of new passenger vehicles rated less than 2-stars for pedestrian safety by Euro NCAP and ANCAP are sold in Australia than in France and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, the portion of the new car fleet in France and the United Kingdom assessed by Euro NCAP/ANCAP since the beginning of 2006 has shown significant improvement and has a larger proportion of better performing vehicles than the equivalent segment of the Australian new car fleet. This period corresponds with the introduction of vehicle pedestrian safety requirements in Europe.
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    A follow-up evaluation of the 50km/h Default Urban Speed Limit in South Australia
    (Victorian Dept of Justice, 2007) Kloeden, C.; Woolley, J.; McLean, A.; Australian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference (2007 : Melbourne, Australia); William Gibbons,; Centre for Automotive Safety Research
    On the 1st March 2003 the Default Urban Speed Limit (DUSL) in South Australia was lowered from 60 km/h to 50 km/h. Since this date, all urban roads have a speed limit of 50 km/h unless otherwise signed. An initial evaluation one year after the change showed that vehicle speeds and crashes had reduced on local roads with the 50 km/h limit and also on arterial roads that were signposted at 60 km/h. This paper reports the results of a follow up evaluation three years after the DUSL was introduced. Vehicles speeds were measured at the same 52 randomly chosen sites across the State. On-road speeds just before the default limit was introduced were compared with speeds measured one and three years later. Crash data was analysed by examining the crash history of all roads with a 50 km/h or 60 km/h speed limit, three years before and after the new DUSL was introduced. The study found that, on average, mean speeds had fallen by approximately 3.8 km/h on streets where the speed limit was reduced and by 2.1 km/h on arterial roads where 60 km/h speed limit signs were erected. There was a 23% reduction in casualty crashes on 50 km/h roads and a corresponding 16% reduction on 60 km/h arterial roads.