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Post-crash care of victims is considered by the World Health Organisation to be the fifth pillar of the safe system approach to road safety.

The purpose of the research was to provide an analysis of drivers’ use of IVIS, smartphone applications and nomadic devices and their likely effects on driver performance.

Between September 2001 and June 2002, research was carried out to determine the safety implications of flush medians at 50 sites in Auckland City, New Zealand.

Since about 1997 the brightness of roadmarkings on a number of New Zealand state highways has been increased.

The transport industry in New Zealand has requested that the maximum speed of transporters and mobile power cranes be increased from the present 50 km/h to the legal speed limit of 100 km/h.

The effects of frost and ice on the skid resistance of a range of road surface types used in New Zealand were examined in a laboratory-based study, carried out in 2001-02.

The viability of blending high polished stone value (PSV) sealing chips with standard chips in two-coat seals and void fills was investigated, with particular emphasis on their physical performance with respect to abrasion and skid resistance.

In the 21 years from 1987 to 2007 inclusive, 22 children were killed, 45 seriously injured and 91 received minor injuries when crossing the road to or from a school bus.

Recent government legislation and policy promotes an increase in walking and cycling as an alternative to the increasing demand for motor vehicle travel.

This study, carried out in 2004 at the Traffic and Road Safety Research Laboratory, University of Waikato, assessed driver reactions to 16 road hazard warning signs of various formats.