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International Road Safety News -- November 2004
New South Wales Roads Minister Carl Scully has urged young people to read an options paper on ways to improve safety for young drivers, and send their comments to the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). Mr Scully launched the discussion paper yesterday at a school road safety forum held for senior students at the Illawarra Sports High School at Berkeley. The paper canvases 11 different options including increased driver training, a limit on the number of passengers in cars, driving curfews and prohibiting "P" plate drivers from driving high powered cars.... Read the full article. [Source: ABC News] Or go directly to the Improving Safety for Young Drivers web page of the Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW. ___________________________
Recent crash tests have found airbags at head level are essential in protecting vehicle occupants involved in side impact crashes. NRMA Motoring & Services and the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority today released a summary of six research tests where four wheel drive vehicles were crashed sideways into a pole at 29 kilometres per hour [i.e. a mere 18mph]. NRMA Vehicle Policy Specialist, Jack Haley and RTA General Manager Road Safety, Dr Soames Job, said the results demonstrated very clearly that to ensure head protection in sideways crashes into poles or trees, a head protecting airbag was vital. They also said side airbags provided important protection for the chest and abdomen, but did not provide head protection in side-on collisions with trees and poles or with high fronted vehicles like large 4WDs....
DSA: Also see the ANCAP small car crash test report, here (July 2004). ______________________________
Research by insurer AAMI shows 93 per cent of Tasmanians favour State Government plans to introduce drug testing of drivers. The findings were released as the State Opposition called for a new strategy to reduce Tasmania's spiralling road toll. AAMI state manager Trent Sayers said the research showed support for random drug testing had remained strong over the past four years and was high among people aged 18-24 years. Four people died on the state's roads at the weekend, taking the toll to 56 compared with 41 for the whole of last year. [Source: NEWS.com] ___________________________
NANCY, France -- An elderly motorist driving along a 130-kilometre (80-mile) an hour motorway in eastern France caused an accident when he followed the advice of his onboard GPS computer - and made a U-turn to drive into the high-speed traffic. Police said the hapless 78-year-old driver, who was not named, and the occupants of the vehicle he ran into escaped unharmed from the collision late Sunday, but it could have been much worse. The man told officers his car GPS had told him to "make a U-turn immediately" as he drove along lost on the express way near the town of Nancy in search of a hotel. He did so, not realising the limitations of his satellite navigation device, which guides using verbal directions. "It's not the first time we've had a GPS incident," one of the officers said, recalling the time a police vehicle found itself face-to-face with a motorist going the wrong way in accordance with his computer's instructions. [Source: Expatica] ___________________________
A refreshingly honest view of aggressive driving, from News 24 columnist Serena de Souza -- DSA I've had to stop driving in the fast lane on the highway. I started to have genuine concerns that I was going to get myself killed. The behaviour that was hurtling me towards an early, silk-trimmed coffin was my tendency to get drawn into the grimly aggressive dicing game that the other drivers play. I'm not adopting a holier-than-thou, "it wuzzen me" stance on the matter - I've been right there with the worst of them; thin lipped, tense jawed, on the tail of the person in front of me, refusing to look left or right for fear of making eye contact with any people who might be expecting some basic human consideration from me. I'm generally a fairly moderate person. I have a continental temper, but for the most part, I try to spend my days being courteous and generous to my fellow man. This attitude of selfishness does not come naturally to me - so where did it spring from? Allow me to paint for you the few scenarios that exemplify life on the South African roads. See if you recognise them.... If any of [this article strikes] you as typical behaviour, of which you have been either the executor or the victim (but probably both, in your time), then you are, as I am, a fine example of what causes the ludicrous and unacceptable death toll on our roads.... Read the full, frank story here, from News 24 ___________________________
Inspired by their motto, “We care for you”, the Chandigarh Traffic Police have another citizen-friendly venture up their sleeve. Come next week and they will launch a website on Road Safety Education and Safe Driving, with 30 flash animations about correct and incorrect ways of driving a motor vehicle on the road. The website will be available as a link of the Chandigarh Police official website -- www.chandigarhpolice.nic.in -- which is already available for users.... Citizens can gather information about road safety techniques, right and wrong ways of driving a motor vehicle on city roads, the data related to fatal accidents, other accidents, pictures of accidents, etc., from the website. Besides information on road safety, the website will also have information about speed limits for vehicles, maps of various city roads, besides other interactive features.... Full story, from Chandigarh Newsline ___________________________
California lawmakers have passed more than 150 changes to the vehicle code, some of which are designed to toughen drunk driving regulations, clean the air, prompt drivers to pay better attention to traffic signs and limit the use of motorized scooters. Most of the changes take effect January 1. [Examples include the following:] You already must be at least 16 years old to ride scooters with a gas or electric motor, but in 2005, you'll also need a driver's license or learner's permit.... Meanwhile, even those drivers with daytime running lights will have to remember to turn on their vehicle's headlights whenever it's too foggy to see 1,000 feet or raining hard enough to require continuous use of the windshield wipers.... [New] laws will extend the period that drunk driving convictions remain on a driver's record from seven to ten years, and consolidate oversight of revoked and restricted driver's licenses with the state Department of Motor Vehicles.... Full article (with longer lists), from the LA Times (subscription necessary)
DSA comment: This is, of course, excellent news from California. Our only small disappointment with the details given is in the above reference to turning on a vehicle's headlights "whenever it's... raining hard enough to require continuous use of the windshield wipers." That stipulation could have been even more effective if the word "continuous" had been replaced by the word 'any'. Even a small amount of fine drizzle on the windshield of a lazy or unthinking driver can significantly degrade his/her view, so the safest rule is that if it is raining at all then headlights should be on, so that your vehicle will be seen immediately by those who think it is acceptable not to continuously keep the drizzle off their windshields -- and there are plenty such people around. Eddie Wren, Executive Director, Drive and Stay Alive, Inc. ___________________________
Washington — As the United States prepares to commemorate National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month, respected criminal justice leaders released a report summarizing common-sense solutions and successes in reforming the DWI legal system for dealing with the high-BAC, repeat offenders who cause the vast majority of drunk-driving deaths. From a program that puts a “resource prosecutor” in each state for DWI cases, to a standardized packet aimed at reducing the massive paperwork burden, to a new program that tracks offenders across state lines, innovative solutions are helping reduce the death toll of drunk driving. These solutions are backed up by comprehensive research that has detailed the flaws in our criminal justice system when it comes to serious DWI offenders. In January, Ottawa-based Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) completed a major four-part research project that looked at ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal DWI system for dealing with hard-core drunk drivers. The primary goal of this project, sponsored by Anheuser-Busch Companies, was to identify priority problems and recommend practical solutions in each phase of the justice system.... Read the full, important report here, from the TIRF ___________________________
Stability systems based on antilock brake technology have been under development since the late 1980s. Bosch expects to ship 2 million electronic stability control units to automakers worldwide this year, spokesman Eric Kosmider said. Continental plans to ship more than 1 million stability systems to U.S. manufacturers by the end of 2005, and predicts double-digit growth rates in the years ahead, said board member Karl-Thomas Neumann. Suppliers have led the development of stability systems without any guarantee that carmakers would accept them, knowing that the payback in driver safety could lead to continuing business, said Continental spokesman Jim Gill. "Some of our own internal examinations we conducted concluded this could potentially save anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000 lives a year," he said. "It's not gadgets. We're trying to develop solutions to real public issues." Stopping a rollover accident begins long before a vehicle actually begins to topple, [according to] researchers from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Using extensive federal data, U-M researchers found that one-third of the rollovers began with a skid while the vehicle was still on the road. Another 15 percent of rollovers began with an on-road collision followed by skidding. Overall, 48.5 percent of SUV rollovers started with some form of skid or slide. Even the most basic stability systems can correct a developing skid. "Ninety-nine percent of the drivers," said Josef Pickenhahn, TRW's vice president of braking engineering, "are not as good as the systems." U-M's results back other studies released this fall by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety that show cars, trucks and SUVs equipped with stability control have fewer accidents and that up to 7,000 lives could be saved annually if rollovers are prevented. Stability systems typically sense two ranges of motion, yaw (or turning) force and acceleration both fore-and-aft and side-to-side. They use complex formulas to calculate whether a car may be out of control, and with added software can estimate potential rollovers and limit them. Direct anti-rollover systems use an additional third sensor to detect actual rolling forces. Renna estimates that most automakers will pay suppliers about $100 for stability systems, with a premium added for rollover control. While the systems will be a business boon to suppliers, Renna said the prices paid by carmakers will begin to fall dramatically as volumes increase and the systems become a commodity. "(But) it's not going to go down to the extent where it will reach the levels of a base (antilock brakes) system," he said. "There's still going to be a premium for them." Detroit automakers have said that nearly 2 million SUVs will be built with stability control systems as standard in 2005.... [Source: the above is an unmodified and important extract from a detailed article at the Detroit News.]
DSA -- also see: 1. A related article about the USA lagging behind Europe in the use of stability control technology 2. There Could be 20,000 Fewer Serious Accidents Each Year, in Germany, with ESP ______________________________
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A survey by one of Britain's largest mobile phone retailers has shown that people in the west of England buy the largest proportion of hands-free kits for their cell phones, whereas drivers in the north and around London have bought the least. The company also quizzed Britain's drivers about their reasons for buying in-car kits and found for many it was simply because they want to talk more easily at the wheel -- not because they are afraid of being pulled up by the police. A survey held at the company's 60 installation centres around the UK revealed that the top three reasons for buying a handsfree kit were: 1. More convenient to talk - 67% 2. Required for work - 20% 3. Feel pressure by the law - 13% The findings come after a recent Government study revealed that the number of motorists who drive while using a hand-held mobile phone has dropped by just 25% since the national ban came into effect last year. The company concerned is releasing the figures to encourage any drivers still defying the ban, to get kitted out with an in-car solution - especially after the Government recently announced a crackdown, which will mean offenders now face a GBP60 fine and three penalty points on their licences. The company welcomes the step up in enforcement and penalty fines. [Source of information: PR Newswire press release from the Carphone Warehouse; 30 November, 2004]
DSA comments 1. Oh, please! "The company welcomes the step up in enforcement and penalty fines" because of its potential for higher profits from hands-free kits -- no more, no less. 2. The rate of compliance with this law could undoubtedly be higher if the British Government had not facilitated a reduction of around 12 per cent in number of police traffic patrol drivers, across England and Wales, following the widespread introduction of speed cameras. 3. It is now widely recognised, through research, that using any mobile phone while driving is dangerous. The highly respected Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), for example, has compared the level of distraction in a driver using any cell phone to the level of impairment found in a driver who has the legal limit of alcohol (0.08% BAC) in the bloodstream. 4. 'Limited success' or not, it has to be acknowledged that a reduction of 25% in the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving is infinitely preferable to no reduction at all or, more likely, a significant increase in the rate of use. Eddie Wren, Executive Director, Drive and Stay Alive, Inc. ______________________________
A raft of new measures to tackle drink driving, clampdown on the menace of uninsured and irresponsible driving and improve road safety was unveiled by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling today as the Government's Road Safety Bill was published. Britain has one of the best road safety records in the world and the Government is committed to reducing the numbers of people killed and seriously injured on our roads by 40 per cent by 2010. In 2003 the number of people killed and seriously injured in accidents fell to 37,215 - which is 22% below the 1994-98 average. The number of children killed or seriously injured fell to 4,100 and was 40% below. However, in 2003, 3508 people were killed on the roads and reducing death and injury remains a priority.... Read the full outline to the Road Safety Bill here.
See also the insipid response to the Road Safety Bill, from the UK Conservative Party, here. ___________________________
Prevention of Road Accidents (PORA) an Accra-based local non-governmental organisation which has been advocating road safety awareness has formed a road safety club in Swedru in the Agona district of the Central Region. The formation of the club forms part of PORA's initiative to help reduce road accidents in the country in general through various interventions; but chose to start with the Agona district in particular because of the district's strategic location with regards to road safety awareness creation, Mr Paul Attabra the executive director of PORA, says. Mr Paul Attabra was speaking to the ADM shortly after holding a meeting with the of the Swedru road safety club executive in Accra. He said PORA aims at reducing fatal road accidents through conducting researches into their causes, "taking into consideration some factors including the road set-up, the condition of the motor vehicle involved, the driver, and the road regulatory agencies as well." PORA, he said, also aims at educating the public and other stakeholders on road safety through holding lectures, seminars and giving talks on the subject. To this end he said the organisation has organised a forum on road safety for stakeholders in the road transport sector and its regulatory agencies as well as some opinion leaders.... The chairman of the organisation, Mr Michael Francis Cubbage, a British mechanical engineer, advised drivers to refrain from bad road practices like over-speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, overloading, and driving without backlights. He urged them to ensure that their vehicles are roadworthy before they hit the roads. He called on them to respect the rights of the pedestrians, and to lobby with the local government to involve pavements, crossing points and walkways for pedestrians in new road designs.... Full story, from the Accra Daily Mail ___________________________
VANCOUVER -- In a nod to reality show entertainment, the Youth CounterAttack / RoadSense Society of BC is tailoring its Regional Road Safety Event to youth by planning plenty of activities parlayed from such shows as the Amazing Race and Speaker's Corner. The all-day event draws nearly 100 high school students from more than 20 schools in the Lower Mainland to Templeton Secondary to share concerns about road safety among young drivers. Among this year's activities is the "Impaired Olympics" where students will be put through a series of events using drunk vision goggles to simulate being intoxicated. In an Amazing Race-esque event, students -- like their TV counterparts -- race against time to gain as many points as possible and move quickly from task to task. A version of CityTV's popular Speaker's Corner will also have students scrambling to work out a road safety skit with one minute in front of a camera to perform it.... Read the interesting full report. ___________________________
In its determination to curb the rate of road accidents in the country, [Nigeria's] Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has released books and audio tapes aimed at instilling proper road culture in children, young adults and motorists. Speaking to newsmen in Abuja at the weekend, the Corps Marshal, Major General Haladu Hannaniya (rtd), said the book entitled "Road Safety Tips for Children and Young Adults" was designed to inculcate sound road culture in the minds of the youth. "The drivers and exposed road users would learn defensive driving techniques and tips on safe driving while children and youths would imbibe sound road culture early enough," he said.... Full story, from allAfrica ___________________________
When winter weather turns our roads into skating rinks it does an excellent job of focusing peoples' minds on vehicle safety issues. So it's timely that anti-rollover stability systems for sport utility vehicles are in the news. Every winter I am struck by the number of SUVs I see in ditches or on their sides in freeway medians whenever the roads are slick with ice or snow. Don't SUV drivers realize that such high center of gravity vehicles have different handling characteristics than do cars? Obviously printed warnings inside SUVs are ignored as drivers expect that all-wheel drive will keep them on the road, come what may.... Full story, by John McCormick at the Detroit News ___________________________
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommends that the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances: 1. Work with the National Association of Attorneys General to develop a model law that provides immunity from liability for any person (such as a healthcare worker, an emergency medical technician, a family member, or a concerned citizen) who, in good faith, reports a driver with a potentially impairing medical condition, and also encourage the States to include this law in their statutes. (H-04-42) 2. Develop model legislation, in conjunction with the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors, that allows information gathered by emergency medical technicians concerning the potential medical impairment of accident-involved drivers to be conveyed to the State licensing authority. (H-04-43) The complete recommendation letter is available here. [Source: NTSB] ______________________________
...Conventional patrol cars have devices to detect speeding, but the new unmarked cars rely on the officer's trained eye and a hand-held mini-camera to record offences. Traffic Police said they went on special plain clothes operation only when they receive complaints from the public about errant drivers. From August 14 to October 1, they conducted 29 special operations and nabbed over 600 drivers Chua Chee Wai, spokesperson of Traffic Police, said: "Traffic Police uses unmarked traffic vehicle as one of the enforcement techniques to reign-in serious moving offences like careless, reckless or dangerous driving." [Source: Channel News Asia] ______________________________
Gardai [i.e. the police] have launched a six-week road safety campaign targeting four main areas: drink driving, speeding, seat belt compliance and vulnerable road users. 11,344 people were arrested for drink driving in 2003. It is estimated that alcohol is the primary cause of a third of all fatal road crashes. Gardai claim speeding still remains the greatest contributory factor to road deaths. [Source: The Limerick Post] ___________________________
Two weeks ago, after a 16-year-old student at Churchill High School in Montgomery County, Md., was killed while driving from a party where alcohol was being served, parents met to discuss how to stop teen drinking and driving. As well intentioned as such forums may be, they dodge the plain fact that the surest way to reduce the number of teen traffic deaths — nearly 8,000 last year — is to reduce the number of teens on the road. The best place to start is with 16-year-olds. In the U.S., 16-year-olds have a crash rate five times greater than that of 18-year-olds. Although the driving experience of 16- and 18- year-olds has to be taken into account, immaturity plays an even bigger role, especially among boys. The immaturity factor is so strong that, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, driver-education courses have had little or no effect on teen accidents. Yet, in most states, teens are allowed to get a permit at 15 and a license at 16. If the permit age were pushed up to 16, and if kids were required to hold the permit for a year before getting a license, there would be a substantial reduction in the deaths of teen drivers and their passengers. In England, the driving age is 17, and in Germany, it is 18. Both countries have lower teen fatality rates than the United States. [DSA note: This is despite these countries having factors which should make matters worse, such as higher speed limits and many small cars, etc., so this article is clearly making an accurate and highly important point.] Raising the driving age to 17 would disappoint 16-year-olds who have come to see getting a license as a rite of passage. It would foment an uproar among the growing numbers who have bamboozled their parents into thinking that they are entitled to a new car on their 16th birthday. And many parents would not be too happy to have to wait a year to stop driving their teens around or to delegate the chauffeuring of younger kids to teen drivers. But any responsible parent would gladly make that sacrifice to avoid the grief that I witnessed last month, when one of my students was killed as she rode with a 16-year-old driver whom police have charged with reckless driving. Laura Lynam, the best student in my senior English classes at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., became the 15th teenager in the Washington metropolitan area to be killed in a car accident in a three-week period.... ...when it comes to cars — the biggest source of death for American teens — parents have an obligation not to trust their kids and to do everything to save them from themselves. Read the excellent, full article, from USA Today.
DSA Comment: This article, by Patrick Welsh, an English teacher at the aforementioned T.C. Williams High School, is as important and valid as it is well written. [See our italicized note in the body of the article.] Eddie Wren, Executive Director, Drive and Stay Alive, Inc. ___________________________
WASHINGTON
— Kat Mastrangelo was driving down a curvy mountain road on
hard-packed snow last winter when she hit a patch of ice and felt her
Volvo sport utility vehicle start to fishtail. Mastrangelo envisioned
her brand new XC90 crashing into oncoming traffic or spinning into a
ditch. But despite almost universal agreement on the life-saving value of electronic stability control, it is rare on cars and trucks in the United States. And some safety experts and consumer advocates say it may be years before they become common on American roads unless the federal government steps in to set standards. Such systems, widely used in Europe, are considered the next big step forward in auto safety in the U.S., which has concentrated on the construction of better roads and the development of air bags and more crash-worthy cars. The goal is to create vehicles that prevent accidents from happening in the first place. U.S. automakers, however, have lagged behind their European and Japanese counterparts in embracing electronic stability control technology. Overseas it is standard equipment in a wider range of models.... Full story, from the LA Times (subscription necessary)
DSA -- also see: 2. There Could be 20,000 Fewer Serious Accidents Each Year, in Germany, with ESP ___________________________
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Highway Patrol reports that holiday traffic fatalities have claimed seven lives on Bay Area highways between Wednesday and Saturday morning. Last year, the CHP reported one individual killed over the same period of time for the nine Bay Area counties.... Statewide, the CHP has reported 32 highway deaths, up from 19 during the same span of days last year. The CHP has made fewer statewide drunken driving arrests, however, with 986 DUI arrests since the holiday travel period began compared to last year's 1,061 arrests. Full story, from KTVU News ___________________________
Law enforcement authorities have arrested 699 impaired drivers as of Friday night during the first three days of the "Booze It & Lose It" campaign, the Governor's Highway Safety Program reported. The anti-drunk driving campaign is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The campaign began Wednesday and will continue through Jan. 2, authorities said this week. "If people choose to drive after drinking, they should be prepared to meet one of the hundreds of North Carolina law enforcement officers who are actively supporting this program," Darrell Jernigan, director of the Governor's Highway Safety Program, said in a statement this week.... The late fall "Booze It & Loose It" campaign coincides with the state Highway Patrol's focus on aggressive drivers during the holiday weekend.... In addition to impaired-driving charges, officers statewide issued 1,616 safety belt and 256 child passenger safety violations.... Full story, from the News Observer ___________________________
Local police detained the owner and driver of bus involved in a Saturday morning accident that killed 26 in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to local sources. An additional 46 people, including five children, were injured;13 of them are in serious condition. Twenty-five people died on the spot, and one died on the way to hospital. The bus, with 72 people on board, rolled over and fell down a river bank on a highway between Xi'an and Zhouzhi County at about 5:00 a.m. Saturday. The bus was traveling from neighboring Sichuan Province to Shanghai.... [The bus driver,] Li Bo told police that a rock sweeping from the mountain slope struck the front window, and he failed to brake the bus due to an iced road.... [Source: Xinhuanet] same country -- similar incident
Nine people were killed and four injured in a traffic accident, Saturday, in Pingtang county of southwest China's Guizhou Province, according to local police. The accident happened at 3:30 p.m., when a bus carrying 13 people from Pingtang county to Huishui county drove off the road into a valley. The driver died in the accident.... [Source: Xinhuanet] ___________________________
...high-technology gizmos in the Acura RL reflect a growing trend in the automobile industry to design cars so that drivers do not have to take their hands off the steering wheel. Automakers, their suppliers and cellphone manufacturers are pitching hands-free technology as a safe way to rein in the expanding clutter of gadgetry that can leave drivers grabbing for everything but the steering wheel. But how safe are these devices, really? According to early evidence, probably not as safe as you think. Some states endorse the trend. Florida, New Jersey, New York and Washington have passed laws banning hand-held cellphones, requiring drivers to use headsets, speaker phones or phones built into their car. But federal regulators, consumer advocates and some independent safety researchers are concerned that hands-free technology may give a false sense of security. A recent study by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration suggests that drivers who use hands-free cellphone adapters are actually no safer behind the wheel than drivers who hold the phone with one hand and steer with the other. Full story, from the International Herald Tribune ___________________________
A driver [in England] got revenge on a cop who booked him for speeding — by pulling the policeman over for going too fast.
Neil Saunders says he was stopped for doing 76mph on the M20 in Kent.
But further along the motorway he saw the same cop at 80mph. So he
flashed him to pull over — and phoned police to complain. Kent police said: “This is being investigated.” [Source: The Sun] ______________________________
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