| Description |
50 pages : illustrations, graphs, tables ; 30 cm |
| Series |
CR ; 200 |
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Road safety research report, 0810-770X ; CR200 |
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CR ; 200
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Road safety research report (Australian Transport Safety Bureau) ; CR200
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| Summary |
This report investigates the positive and negative aspects of bull bars with regard to road trauma in Australia through assessment of the current literature and analysis of fatal road crash data. Quantification of risk is limited by a number of factors, including restricting the analysis to fatal crashes, incompleteness of data on the bull bar status of vehicles involved in crashes, lack of data on animal strikes and the difficulty of isolating effects of bull bars from other factors associated with injury outcomes, such as vehicle size and speed. Current improvements in bull bar design may offset the risks for pedestrians and other vulnerable road users predicted by experimental studies and the possible risks indicated in an analysis of side impact crashes |
| Analysis |
Bull bars |
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Injuries |
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Interstate comparisons |
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Motor vehicles |
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Pedestrians |
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Reviews of research |
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Statistics |
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Traffic accidents |
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Traffic safety measures |
| Notes |
"December 2000" |
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At head of t.p.: Dept. of Transport and Regional Services, Australian Transport Safety Bureau |
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Series name given as "Road safety report" on title-page, "Road safety research report" on cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, pages 42-44 |
| Notes |
Also available on the Internet at: http://www.atsb.gov.au/road/research/bull-bars.pdf |
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Road safety research report (Australian Transport Safety Bureau) no:CR200 0810-770X |
| Subject |
Automobiles -- Australia -- Bumpers.
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Automobiles -- Australia -- Fenders.
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Automobiles -- Safety appliances -- Australia.
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Crash injuries -- Australia.
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Pedestrian accidents -- Australia.
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Traffic accidents -- Australia.
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| Author |
Glase, K
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Australian Transport Safety Bureau.
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| ISSN |
0810-770X |
| ISBN |
0642255504 |
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