NISU Road Reports
NISU Publications, Reports - Road Injury Information Program series
The Road Injury Information Program (RIIP) was an initiative funded under the Prime Minister's
1989 Road Safety Plan to improve information on road injury. Reports based on investigations
conducted under the program have been published in the RIIP Report Series.
Some of these reports contain information that is time consuming to reproduce for publication on
the World Wide Web so only an Executive Summary is provided.
An Investigation Of Missing Values Of Blood Alcohol
Concentration In Road Crash Databases
In order to assess the quality of the information on alcohol involvement in road
crashes and to understand the factors which determine this characteristic a study was initiated by
the National Injury Surveillance Unit (NISU), as a joint funded project with the Federal Office of
Road Safety (FORS), to investigate the data on blood alcohol concentration (BAC) reported in road
crash databases nationally. Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 8, 1995.
(Prepared by P.J. O'Connor and R.F. Trembath)
The Linkage of Hospital and Police Information on Road
Crash Casualties: An Investigation of Alternative Methods.
By linking together data routinely collected by the various authorities dealing
with road crash casualties, comprehensive information can be assembled for the analysis of outcomes
of road crashes. Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 7, 1995. (Prepared by D
Rosman of Roadwatch at the University of Western Australia.) (Full Report)
Investigation of Improved Exposure Data for the Assessment
of Road Safety.
The objectives of this study were:
To catalogue the need for, and availability of, Australian exposure data relevant to a
comprehensive assessment of road safety, in particular the exposure data requirements for
monitoring of the National Health Goals and Targets (NHG&Ts) and the National Road Safety
Strategy (NRSS).
To specify, recommend and make cost estimates of systems for collecting currently unavailable
exposure data, in particular systems for collecting exposure data by model of vehicle and
characteristics of all occupants involved in crashes, whether injured or not.
Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 6, 1995. (Prepared by M Cameron and J
Oxley of the Accident Research Centre, Monash University.)
Examination of Length of Stay Differences of Vehicle Injury
and Other Separations Within Diagnosis Related Groups.
The objective of the study was to examine length of stay differences within AN-DRG's
between separations for vehicle injury and separations for other reasons. Data was collected on
75,877 separations over the period July-December 1992 from six South Australian hospitals, selected
as being reasonably representative of Australian hospitals providing services to vehicle injury
cases across a range of different settings (i.e. city/country, teaching/nonteaching). Road
Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 5, 1995. (Prepared in conjunction with KPMG
Management Consulting.)
Road Injury in Australia, 1991.
This report contains information on road injury hospital separations and deaths for
1991. It presents tabulations and limited descriptive commentary on a range of factors including
age, sex, road user type, nature and body region of injury, injury severity, length of stay in
hospital and State/Territory. Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 4,
1995.
Incidence of Hospital Emergency Department Attendances for
Road Injury.
This report contains the results of a project, jointly funded by NISU & FORS, to
estimate at national level total attendances for road injury at hospital Emergency Departments in
1990/91. In order to provide a basis for subsequent estimates, the project also sought to quantify
the relationship between attendances and admissions for road injury. The major impetus for the
study was the lack of accurate national statistics on minor injury in road crashes, identified in
several reports. Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 3, 1993. (Prepared in
conjunction with KPMG Peat Marwick.)
Road Injury in Australia, 1990.
This statistical report contains a selection of information from the National Road
Injury Database for 1990. The database has been developed by the Road Injury Information
Program from State/Territory hospital separations data. Road Injury Information Program Report
Series, Number 2, 1993.
Traffic Accident Insurance Data.
This report documents the data collected by insurance companies (motor vehicle and
third party) in Australia. Road Injury Information Program Report Series, Number 1, 1993.
(Prepared by D Andreassen of the Australian Road Research Board
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