Quad bikes are now the leading cause of preventable machinery-related death on Australian farms, with more deaths from quad bikes than tractors or any other farm-related machinery. This paper provides a review of child deaths in quad bike incidents and recommendations to improve quad bike safety. The findings are based on a review of the...

On average four people die and 90 people are seriously injured on Australian roads every day. Most Australians have been personally affected by the trauma of a road crash and the cost to the community in terms of economic loss and personal suffering is enormous. While there has been a measureable decrease in death on...

On average, four people are killed and 80 are seriously injured every day on Australia's roads. Almost everyone has, at some stage, been affected by a road crash. Australian Transport Ministers have asked the heads of transport and roads agencies around the country to work together to prepare a new 10-year National Road Safety Strategy...

Road crashes impose large costs on society and substantial investments are made in infrastructure and safety programs to reduce road trauma. This report presents new estimates of the cost of road crashes for 2006. The cost of road crashes is important to the safety debate in Australia, and the unit values particularly for a fatality...