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Submission to senate inquiry on road safety in Australia
1 March 2015 In this inquiry, our concern is the safety of cyclists as road users, having regard to the costs of injury and death to them. We focus here on the design standard for bicycle helmets, made mandatory by federal trade practices legislation and administered by the ACCC, and its adequacy for supporting the…
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Federal government abandons compulsory helmets policy
The Federal Government instigated in 1989 the nationwide policy of compulsion to wear a helmet, by offering ‘black spot’ funding for roads to the states and territories. All complied by 1992. In 2009, CRAG made a comprehensive submission to the Prime Minister calling for the Government’s policy on helmets to be based on sound evidence of…
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Submission to Treasurer November 2010
10 November 2010 The Hon. Wayne Swan MP Treasurer Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Mr Swan, mandatory standard for BICYCLE HELMETS I am writing to draw your attention to a deficiency in the mandatory standard for bicycle helmets and to a lack of due process in the review of it that the ACCC conducted…
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SUBMISSION TO NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONSULTATION May 2009
1. Introduction This submission comments upon the specific application of the three key questions of the Consultation to cyclists. Enclosure A, being my chapter 6 of the book Transportation Accident Analysis and Prevention provides supporting data and argument. References to it are simply by page number designated as [141] etc. Other references are listed in…
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Submission to the Prime Minister April 2009
Following CRAG’s submission, the federal government abandoned its policy of supporting compulsory bicycle helmets, stating in a letter to CRAG that “helmet wearing policies are entirely determined at a state and territory government level”. blank SUBMISSION ON BICYCLE HELMETS Introduction When the then Prime Minister Hawke announced the ‘black spots’ program in December 1989 to…
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Submission to “CYCLING AUSTRALIA, THE NATIONAL STRATEGY”
In August 1998, Austroads Inc., a body comprising Australian transport authorities, invited comments on a consultation paper for a national cycling strategy. On behalf of CRAG, Bill Curnow submitted the following comments. COMMENTS ON “CYCLING AUSTRALIA, THE NATIONAL STRATEGY, COMMUNITY CONSULTATION PAPER, AUGUST 1998” The paper does not give any attention to the effects that…