Road safety: a review of research and practice. Section 1. Road safety: past, present and future. Section 2. Methods and analyses. Section 3. Road user education and attitudes.

The first 3 sections of the book contain the following papers: highway safety: past and future (Cantilli, EJ); the organisation of road safety in Great Britain (Dean, C); the usefulness of hospital in-patient data for road safety studies (Nicholl, JP); driver gap acceptance as a measure of accident risk (McDowell, MRC, Darzentas, J and Wennell, J); traffic conflicts: a measure of road safety (Zimolong, B); methods of measuring driving performance under the influence of alcohol, drugs and fatigue (Willumeit, H-P, Kramer, U and Neubert, W); engineering programmes for accident reduction (Huddart, KW and Dean, JD); pedestrian injuries: the influence of vehicle design (Ashton, SJ); designing road safety teaching and publicity materials for children (Sheppard, D); traffic education for young children (Rothengatter, T); child cycling behaviour and the effects of safety instruction (Risk, A); improving parental road safety practice and education with respect to pre-school children (Downing, CS); handicapped people in traffic (Boecher, W and Geiler, M); discrimination against majority groups: the elderly and the handicapped (Van der Does, VI); driver improvement: an approach to road safety (Kroj, G); (continued on IRRD 258856). For abstracts of papers by Sheppard, D and Downing, CS see IRRD 259006 and 259005.