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JOURNAL OF SAFETY RESEARCH
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 67-74Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2019.11.003
Keywords
Annual Crash Statistics; Road safety; Enforcement; Learner licenses; Fatalities
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Introduction: Recent increases in road crashes have reversed New Zealand's formerly declining crash rates to produce annual fatal and serious injury counts that are 49% higher than the lowest rates achieved in 2013. Method: We model twenty-one factors in fatal and serious injury crashes, four years before and after 2013 using logistic regression. Three major factors are significantly different in the period after 2013, when crash rates increased: (1) alcohol as a cause, (2) learner licence holders, and (3) a regional effect for Auckland. Newly defined speed zones are a more common setting for crashes in the period of upturn but there is no coinciding elevated likelihood of 'speed as a causal factor'. Three factors related to road safety were less common: aged under 25-years old, fatigue, and not wearing a seatbelt. Results: Results are compared to rates of prosecutions for alcohol-related driving offences over this period. It is possible that New Zealand's successful road safety initiatives of the past have been undermined by reduced levels of enforcement and an unexpected outcome from the graduated driving licence system. (C) 2019 National Safety Council and Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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