HUSSAR
High Unsafe Speed Accident Reduction,

funded by the Department for Transport,
Duration: October 2005 to July 2008.

Contacts: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  and Catriona O'Dolan, with Trinity College, Dublin.

We know that inappropriate high speed (IHS) is related to driver collision frequency and severity. The strategic goals of this safety project are to inform drivers of the risks of IHS, to improve attitudes and behaviour in relation to speed choice and through this process to help explain speed management and enforcement policy. The research objectives of the project were to facilitate a more effective strategy in achieving these goals, with the specific project aim of answering the question: how can knowledge about the role of speed in accidents be best presented to achieve the strategic goals of informing drivers of the risks of IHS and improving attitudes and behaviour in relation to speed choice?

A survey of the published and grey literature on speeding covering the period 1995-2006*, a large UK national survey of car drivers attitudes to speed and speeding**, and focus groups with speeders, those who drive as part of their work and PTW riders*** were conducted.

* R.Fuller, H.Bates, M.Gormley, B.Hannigan, S.Stradling, P.Broughton, N.Kinnear & C.O’Dolan (2006) Inappropriate high speed: who does it and why? In Behavioural Research in Road Safety: Sixteenth Seminar. pp. 70-84. London: Department for Transport.

** S.Stradling, M.Gormley, R.Fuller, P.Broughton, N.Kinnear & C.O’Dolan (2007) A typology of speeding drivers: extent of and motives for exceeding the speed limit. ch. 18 in Behavioural Research in Road Safety, Seventeenth Seminar, Department for Transport, London.

*** R.Fuller, B.Hannigan, H.Bates, M.Gormley, S.Stradling, P.Broughton, N.Kinnear & C.O’Dolan (2007) Understanding inappropriate high speed: qualitative results from the HUSSAR project. ch 17. in Behavioural Research in Road Safety, Seventeenth Seminar, Department for Transport, London.