The overall aim of the project was to examine safety-related attitudes and behaviours in work-related driving to assess their contribution to crashes and to identify potential approaches to improving the safety of work-related driving. Stage 1 analysed crash and registration data supplied by the NSW RTA to examine the role of risky driving behaviours (speeding, fatigue, drink driving and not wearing seat belts) in crashes of fleet and non-fleet vehicles. Fleet vehicles had a higher crash rate per 10,000 registered vehicles per year than non-fleet vehicles. The crash rate of emergency vehicles was double that of other fleet and non-fleet vehicles and speeding was twice as common in crashes of emergency vehicles. For each type of vehicle, illegal blood alcohol levels were less common among drivers of fleet vehicles than among drivers of non-fleet vehicles in crashes. More than half of all fleet vehicles belonged to a fleet of one or two vehicles and smaller fleets had older vehicles. There was no clear relationship between crash involvement and fleet size. (Author/publisher)
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