Glossary
- Autonomous vehicles
- Automated vehicles are vehicles that include an automated driving system (ADS) (steering, acceleration and braking) with limited or no human input.
- Distraction
- Distracted driving refers to any activity that takes a driver’s attention away from the task of driving safely.
- Drugs
- THC (Cannabis), Methylamphetamine or MDMA (Ecstasy) present in saliva or blood.
- Fatigue
- Driving when tired. There are a range of factors that cause fatigue, the four main causes are:
- lack of quality sleep;
- number of hours continuously awake;
- time of day driving when you would normally be sleeping (i.e. 1am-6am) or in the afternoon period (i.e. 2pm-4pm) when our biological time clock makes us feel tired;
- length of time performing the task; and
- sleeping disorders such as sleep apnoea.
- Forgiving roads
- Forgiving of road user errors and mistakes, ensuring that these do not lead to serious harm.
- Heavy vehicle
- Any vehicle over 4.5 tons. This includes the following types: rigid truck, semi-trailer, bus, b-double, mobile crane, low loader and road train.
- High speed regional road
- Roads in regional and remote South Australia where the speed limit is 100 km/h or 110 km/h.
- Inappropriate speed
- Speeds that are too fast for the conditions and are not necessarily above the speed limit.
- Lives lost on our roads
- A person who dies within 30 days of a crash as a result of injuries sustained in that crash.
- Older road users
- A person aged 70 years or above.
- Road user
- Everyone is a road user. Whether you drive, ride a motorbike, cycle or are a pedestrian or passenger.
- Serious injury
- A person who sustains injuries and is admitted to hospital for a minimum period of an overnight stay as a result of a road crash and who does not die as a result of those injuries within 30 days of the crash.
- Serious injury crash
- A non-fatal crash in which at least one person is seriously injured.
- Shoulder
- A sealed or unsealed area on the outside of the travel lanes of a road that has no kerb.
- Younger road users
- A person aged 16-24 years.
