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RESCUE AND FIRST AID FOR OUR HIGHWAYS
Author(s) -
Pact Hanns
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47016.x
Subject(s) - safer , transport engineering , quarter (canadian coin) , accident (philosophy) , first aid , road accident , business , engineering , computer security , medical emergency , geography , computer science , medicine , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology
Between 1965 and 1970, the number of highway accidents In New South Wales rose by one‐quarter on a static length of highway. Highway fatalities reached two‐thirds of all State road fatalities in 1970. This trend, related to traffic volume, is continuing. Some organization is needed if our highways are to become safer places to have an accident. Whoever maintains a highway should also be responsible for adequate facilities in case of an accident. A Road Safety Act could lay down adequate instruction on what a driver should do in case of an accident as part of licensing examinations for drivers, minimum equipment for each car, free emergency telephones for roads at risk, and rescue and first‐aid arrangements for road casualties. A rural highway accident team covering 393 accidents in six years is described. It provides for an alerting system, police attention, immediate skilled extrication, first aid by ambulance officers and a trained medical practitioner in case of need.