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Enforcement is a further key issue in the Draft ACT Road Safety Strategy. Traffic laws and vehicle safety standards must be seen to be enforced to ensure compliance. This strategy recognises the need for enforcement agencies to maintain a high presence in the community and to target areas and periods of high risk.
The final key issue of the Draft Strategy relates to research, evaluation and reporting. In order to monitor our progress it is essential that a comprehensive data base be established. The collection of data on serious accidents needs to be improved so that we can establish and monitor trends, and provide strategic planning for road safety. Reliable data and data analysis are also necessary for the evaluation and monitoring of specific road safety initiatives.
The Draft Strategy includes some items which highlight areas for future investigation or development, such as initiatives to target high risk and repeat traffic offenders, and other items that reflect current government action, such as the introduction of a safety audit system.
The Draft Strategy clearly identifies specific targets for reductions in:
road deaths, hospitalisation accidents, and third party insurance claims.
Because the sample size of ACT road accidents is relatively small, and therefore open to distortion through particularly good or bad years, sample years are grouped together by means of moving averages. This process provides the level of stability necessary to ensure the ACT Road Safety Targets are reasonable.
The first target is for the ten-year moving average of annual road fatalities never to exceed 30 for the period until 2001 despite any population increase.
Secondly, the three-year moving average of annual hospitalisation accidents is never to exceed 180 over this same period.
Thirdly, the three-year moving average of ACT third party insurance claims is not to exceed 0.6 of one percent of all policies issued.
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