Community Attitudes to Road Safety, 1996

The survey is the ninth in a series of national studies conducted since October 1986 for the Federal Office of Road Safety, designed to monitor key community attitudes toward road safety issues. In most cases, questions that had been asked in the previous wave (1995 survey) were repeated and certain new questions were added. Topics included were factors believed to lead to road crashes; random breath testing; past and present licence holding; frequency of driving or riding a motor vehicle; attitudes to drinking and driving; speeding; wearing of seat belts/child restraints; knowledge of the blood alcohol concentration limit; incidence of being booked for speeding in the last two years; tolerated speeds in rural zones without being booked; and attitudes to state laws requiring people to carry their licence at all times while driving. Background variables include respondent's age, sex, occupation and highest level of education achieved.