Research and statistics
Victoria has a long history of road safety research and evidence-based practice. Road safety education is no exception.
National practices for early childhood road safety education
The National Practices for Early Childhood Road Safety Education have been developed by early childhood education and road safety experts across Australia and New Zealand. The eight evidence based national practices are aligned with the Early Years Learning Framework. The national practices have been developed to support evidence based road safety education in early childhood settings.
Child restraints
The Child Restraint Evaluation Program evaluates and provides ratings for child restraints and booster seats according to how well they protect a child in a crash, and how easy they are to use.
Accessory child safety harnesses: Do the risks outweigh the benefits?
Role Modelling
Parents and carers of young people have a key role in role modelling positive road user behaviour throughout their childhood and teen years.
Good Practice Road Safety for Young People
Young people are a particularly vulnerable road user group. It is important that resources and programs are evidence based in order to support teachers, schools and community groups to deliver effective road safety education for young people.. The fact sheets below have been created to help inform the development of good practice road safety education for young people.
Youth Road Safety: Effective Practice PDF, 1.84MB
Fact Sheet 1 - Road Safety Education in Senior Secondary Schools: Good Practice Guide PDF, 0.11MB
Fact Sheet 2 - Community Road Safety: Young Road User Safety Good Practice Guide PDF, 0.12MB
Fact Sheet 3 - High Risk Young Drivers and Young Offenders: Good Practice Guide PDF, 0.11MB
Fact Sheet 4 - What Doesn't Work for Young Road Users and Why PDF, 0.13MB
To access young driver research reports, please visit please visit the MUARC website.
For information on Driver Training programs please see The Effectiveness of Driver Training as a Road Safety Measure
For information on issues and initiatives for young drivers, including the Graduated Licensing System, please visit the VicRoads website.
The introduction of Victoria's Graduated Licensing System (GLS) shows very promising outcomes in terms of improvements in young driver behaviour. To view Victoria's GLS Evaluation Interim Report visit the VicRoads website.
Statistics and injury data
CrashStats contains all reported road crash injury statistics in Victoria.
The TAC safety website lists a wide range of statistics related to road safety such as young driver statistics, speed statistics, age group and gender statistics and road toll statistics.
The Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU) is a longstanding major project of the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC). VISU maintains, analyses, reports on, disseminates and applies injury data to injury prevention, develops countermeasures, implements prevention strategies and monitors trends and outcomes of interventions.
Other useful links
ARRB
Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)
The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q)
Centre for Automative Safety Research – University of Adelaide