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Appraisal of the existing traffic accident data collection and recording system : South Australia Howard, BV ; Young, MF ; Ellis, JP

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Melbourne Australian Department of Transport. Office of Road Safety. CR 6, 1979Description: 74 s. + bilSubject(s): Bibl.nr: VTI P0643:06 VTI 2002.0734:3Location: Abstract: Traffic accident data collection in South Australia has been appraised with the intention of answering two questions: What can reasonably be expected of the mass accident data system, and what improvements could be achieved by alterations to the system or to the demands made of it? Dummy accident reports, compiled by a Survey Team attending accidents in metropolitan Adelaide, were compared with computer accident records prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics using police accident reports edited and coded by the South Australian Highways Department. Also, data from multiple reports for a sample of accidents not attended by police were checked for consistency.
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Traffic accident data collection in South Australia has been appraised with the intention of answering two questions: What can reasonably be expected of the mass accident data system, and what improvements could be achieved by alterations to the system or to the demands made of it? Dummy accident reports, compiled by a Survey Team attending accidents in metropolitan Adelaide, were compared with computer accident records prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics using police accident reports edited and coded by the South Australian Highways Department. Also, data from multiple reports for a sample of accidents not attended by police were checked for consistency.