Injury
Volume 39 , Pages S19-S23 , December 2008

Understanding the extent and impact of Indigenous road trauma

  • Kathleen Clapham

      Affiliations

    • Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, The University of Wollongong, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Professor Kathleen Clapham. Director, Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia Tel.: +61 2 42214924; Fax: +61 2 42214244
    • ,
  • Teresa Senserrick

      Affiliations

    • The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Rebecca Ivers

      Affiliations

    • The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Marilyn Lyford

      Affiliations

    • The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Mark Stevenson

      Affiliations

    • The George Institute for International Health, The University of Sydney, Australia

References 

  1. Berry JG , Nearmy DM , Harrison JE . Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to transport, 1999–00 to 2003–04. AIHW Catalogue no. INJCAT 100 . Canberra ACT: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Australian Transport Safety Bureau; May 2007;
  2. McFadden M , McKie K , Mwesigye S . Estimating road trauma in the Australian Indigenous population . Canberra ACT: Australian Transport Safety Bureau; 2000;
  3. Styles T , Edmonston C . Australian Indigenous road safety 2005 update . Canberra: Australian Transport Safety Bureau; 2006; Report No. CR 225.
  4. Australian Transport Council  . National Road Safety Strategy 2002–2010 . Canberra ACT: Australian Transport Safety Bureau; 2000;
  5. Australian Transport Safety Bureau  . Profile of road safety among Indigenous Australians. Draft discussion paper prepared for the Indigenous Road Safety Forum and Working Group. Alice Springs, 27–28 September 2004 . Canberra ACT: Australian Government; 2004;
  6. Brice GA . Australian Indigenous road safety: a critical review and research report, with special reference to South Australia, other Indigenous populations, and countermeasures to reduce road trauma . Adelaide SA: Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia and Transport South Australia; 2000;
  7. Cercarelli L , Coope LM . Process evaluation of the Open Load Space Project, July 1999 to March 2000 . Perth WA: Road Accident Prevention Research Unit, Department of Public Health, The University of Western Australia; 2000;
  8. Cercarelli LR , Knuiman MW . Trends in road injury hospitalisation rates for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Western Australia, 1971–97 . Inj Prev . 2002;8:211–215
  9. Cercarelli R , Ryan AG , Knuiman MW , et al.   Road safety issues in remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia . Accid Anal Prev . 2000;32:845–848
  10. Edmonston C , Dwyer J , Sheehan M . In: Progress report 1: Literature review. Road safety in rural and remote areas of Australia . Vermont South VIC: AARB Transport Research; 2002;p. RC1967
  11. Harrison J , Miller E , Weeramanthri T , et al.   Information sources for injury prevention among Indigenous Australians: status and prospects for improvements . Canberra ACT: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2001;
  12. Macaulay J , Thomas R , Mabbot N , et al.   2003. Australian Indigenous road safety . Canberra ACT: Australian Transport Safety Bureau Contract; 2003; Report CR2321.
  13. Population Health Division  . The health of the people of NSW: report of the Chief Health Officer, 2004 . Sydney NSW: NSW Department of Health; 2004;
  14. Cercarelli LR . Road crashes involving Aboriginal people in Western Australia . Acc Anal Prev . 1994;26:361–369
  15. Cercarelli R. Road safety issues involving Aboriginal people in Western Australia. Road Safety: Gearing Up for the Future Conference, Perth WA, August 2001.
  16. Australian Bureau of Statistics. National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey 2002. ABS Category no. 4714.0, Canberra ACT, June 2004.
  17. Cercarelli LR . 1999. Road crash hospitalisations and deaths in Western Australia involving Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people, 1988 to 1996 . Perth WA: Road Accident Prevention Unit RR87; 1999;
  18. Treacy PJ , Jones K , Mansfield C . Flipped out of control: single vehicle rollover accidents in the Northern Territory . MJA . 2002;176:260–263
  19. Clapham K . Injury prevention activity among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Volume 2: Programs, projects and actions . Canberra ACT: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing; 2004;
  20. Clapham K , Khavarpour F , Ivers R , et al.   An evaluation of the Lismore driver education program ‘On the Road’ . Parramatta NSW: Attorney General's Department of New South Wales; 2005;
  21. Ker K , Roberts I , Collier T , et al.   Post-licence driver education for the prevention of road traffic crashes . Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2003;3: CD003734.
  22. Roberts I , Kwan I , Cochrane Injuries Group Driver Education Reviewers  . School based driver education for the prevention of traffic crashes . Cochrane Database Syst Rev . 2001;3: CD003201.
  23. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. Social justice report 2005. Report No: 3/2005, Sydney NSW, 2005.
  24. Oxfam Australia. Close the gap: solutions to the Indigenous health crisis facing Australia. A policy briefing paper from the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Oxfam Australia. Fitzroy VIC: Oxfam Australia, 2007.
  25. Office of Aboriginal Health  . The Way Ahead Report . Perth WA: Office of Aboriginal Health, Western Australian Government; 2000;
  26. Williams AF . Young driver risk factors: successful and unsuccessful approaches for dealing with them and an agenda for the future . Inj Prev . 2006;12:i4–i8

PII: S0020-1383(08)70025-1

doi: 10.1016/S0020-1383(08)70025-1

Injury
Volume 39 , Pages S19-S23 , December 2008

Article Tools