Pedestrians

Pedestrians are one of the most vulnerable road user groups.  School and Community Injury Prevention projects may also focus on pedestrians.

For general information, refer to CARRS-Q's fact sheet on Driveway Runovers [PDF, 281KB].

Improving the safety of older drivers, vehicle passengers and pedestrians, especially women, as the Australian population ages (2010)

Addressing low speed vehicle run-overs of young children (2009 - in progress)

Development of intervention guidelines for work-related drivers targeting low speed vehicle run-overs of young children (2009 - 2010)

An investigation of older pedestrian road crossing strategies (2006 - 2009)

Recent publications by CARRS-Q researchers include:

King, Mark J. and Soole, David W. and Ghafourian, Ameneh (2009) Illegal pedestrian crossing at signalised intersections : Incidence and relative risk.  Accident Analysis and Prevention, 41(3). pp. 485-490.

King, Mark J. and Soole, David W. and Ghafourian, Ameneh (2008) Relative risk of illegal pedestrian behaviours.  In: 2008 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 10-12 November 2008, Adelaide, South Australia.

Davey, Jeremy D. and Dingle, Genevieve A. and Clark, Michele J. and Johnston, Trish C. and Woods, Shelley D. and White, Jill and Freeman, James E. (2007) The prevalence and characteristics of paediatric driveway accidents in Queensland.  The Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 18(2). pp. 34-40.

Haworth, Narelle L. (2006) Integrating policy approaches for vulnerable road users.  In: 29th Australasian Transport Research Forum, 27-29 September 2006, Gold Coast, Australia.

Buckley, Lisa D. (2005) Adolescents' perspective of transport related risk-taking and injury: Definitions, consequences, and risk and protective factors.  In: Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 14-16 November, Wellington, New Zealand.

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