Sam Doecke

Research Interests

Automotive Engineering Automotive Safety Engineering Autonomous Vehicles Database Management Road Safety

Mr Sam Doecke

Grant-Funded Research Fellow

Office of Engineering and Information Technology

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Mr Sam Doecke (B.E. [Automotive]) is a Research Fellow who has worked at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR) at the University of Adelaide since 2007. Sam manages CASR at-scene in-depth crash investigations and has been a key part of CASR’s research on emerging vehicle technologies including Intelligent Speed Assist, Autonomous Emergency Braking and Connected Vehicles. He is also concurrently undertaking a PhD looking at speed and risk of serious injury in crashes

Date Position Institution name
2007 - ongoing Research Fellow University of Adelaide, Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2016 Award 2016 Intelligent Transport Systems Australia Research Award Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress - -
2011 Award Highly commended paper award Australasian College of Road Safety Conference - -
2011 Award Best Practitioners Paper Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference - -
2010 Award Peter Vulcan Awards for Best Research Paper (as lead author) Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference - -
2009 Award Peter Vulcan Awards for Best Research Paper (as co-author) Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
2003 - 2006 University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Engineering (Automotive)

Year Citation
2026 Doecke, S. D., & Baldock, M. R. J. (2026). Speed limits and fatality risk in Australia. Traffic Injury Prevention, 1-9.
DOI
2021 Doecke, S. D., Dutschke, J. K., Baldock, M. R. J., & Kloeden, C. N. (2021). Travel speed and the risk of serious injury in vehicle crashes. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 161, 1-8.
DOI Scopus33 WoS28 Europe PMC10
2020 Doecke, S., Thompson, J., & Stokes, C. (2020). How do we prevent and mitigate crashes? Evidence from Australian at-scene in-depth crash investigations. Journal of Road Safety, 31(2), 35-43.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2020 Doecke, S. D., Baldock, M. R. J., Kloeden, C. N., & Dutschke, J. K. (2020). Impact speed and the risk of serious injury in vehicle crashes.. Accident; analysis and prevention, 144, 1-7.
DOI Scopus58 WoS47 Europe PMC22
2018 Doecke, S., Kloeden, C., Dutschke, J., & Baldock, M. (2018). Safe speed limits for a safe system: The relationship between speed limit and fatal crash rate for different crash types. Traffic injury prevention, 19(4), 404-408.
DOI Scopus54 WoS52 Europe PMC24
2015 Doecke, S., Grant, A., & Anderson, R. (2015). The Real-World Safety Potential of Connected Vehicle Technology. Traffic Injury Prevention, 16(sup1), 31-35.
DOI Scopus36 WoS33 Europe PMC5
2014 Doecke, S., & Kloeden, C. (2014). The accuracy of determining speeding directly from mass crash data and using the NSW Centre for Road Safety method. Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 25(1), 35-41.
WoS2
2011 Anderson, R., & Doecke, S. (2011). An analysis of head impact severity in simulations of collisions between pedestrians and SUVs/work utility vehicles, and sedans. Traffic Injury Prevention, 12(4), 388-397.
DOI Scopus4 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2010 Anderson, R. W. G., & Doecke, S. (2010). The Relative Age Related Crashworthiness of the Registered South Australian Passenger Vehicle Fleet. JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF ROAD SAFETY, 21(1), 36-46.
WoS3

Year Citation
2023 Doecke, S. D. (2023). Risk of serious injury relative to impact speed in two-vehicle crashes: deriving risk curves for crash types from impact type risk curves. In Conference proceedings International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury, IRCOBI (pp. 934-935).
2023 Doecke, S., Ponte, G., & Elsegood, M. (2023). Determining the prevalence and profile of speeding in vehicle crashes using event data recorders (EDRs). In Proceedings of the 27th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (pp. 1-13). United States: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
2023 Doecke, S. (2023). Towards updated safe speeds using new speed-injury risk curves. In Proceedings of the 2023 Australasian Road Safety Conference. Cairns, Australia.
DOI
2016 Doecke, S., Baldock, M., & Woolley, J. (2016). In-depth crash investigation in South Australia and its use in roadside safety research. In Proceedings of the 2016 Expert Symposium on Accident Research (pp. 1-7). online: AMOS.
2014 Doecke, S., & Anderson, R. (2014). The safety potential of connected vehicles. In Proceedings of the 2014 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 1-12). Melbourne, Vic.: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2013 Anderson, R., Doecke, S., Mackenzie, J. R. R., & Ponte, G. (2013). Potential benefits of autonomous emergency braking based on in-depth crash reconstruction and simulation. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (pp. 13-0152-1-13-0152-10). Seoul, Korea: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
2013 Doecke, S., & Kloeden, C. (2013). The accuracy of determining speeding directly from mass crash data and using the NSW Centre for Road Safety method. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACRS Conference - A Safe System: The Road Safety Discussion (pp. 1-9). online: ACRS.
2013 Doecke, S. D., & Woolley, J. (2013). Post impact travel and secondary impacts following urban intersection collisions. In Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 28-30). Brisbane, Qld.: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2013 Doecke, S. D., & Woolley, J. (2013). Some implications from the in-depth study and simulation modelling of road departure crashes on bends on rural roads. In Proceedings of the 2013 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 1-2). Brisbane, Qld.: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2012 Doecke, S., Anderson, R., Mackenzie, J., & Ponte, G. (2012). The potential of autonomous emergency braking systems to mitigate passenger vehicle crashes. In Proceedings of the Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012, ARSRPE 2012 (pp. 1-11). online: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2011 Doecke, S., Woolley, J., & Mackenzie, J. (2011). Post impact trajectory of vehicles at rural intersections. In Proceedings of 2011 A Safe System: Making it Happen! (pp. 1-10). online: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2011 Doecke, S., Anderson, R., Woolley, J., & Truong, J. (2011). Advisory intelligent speed adaptation in government fleet vehicles. In Proceedings of The Australasian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference 2011 (pp. 1-10). Australia: Government of Western Australia.
2011 Doecke, S., & Woolley, J. (2011). Further investigation into the effective use of clear zones and barriers in a safe system's context on rural roads. In Proceedings of The Australasian Road Safety Research Policing and Education Conference 2011 (pp. 1-11). Australia: Government of Western Australia.
2011 Creef, K., Wall, J., Boland, P., Vecovski, V., Prendergast, M., Stow, J., . . . Woolley, J. (2011). Road safety benefits of intelligent speed adaptation for Australia. In Proceedings of the 2011 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 1-10). Perth, WA: Australasian College of Road Safety.
2010 Doecke, S., Woolley, J., & Anderson, R. (2010). Cost benefit analysis of intelligent speed adaptation. In Proceedings of 2010 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 1-10). www: RCAG.
2010 Doecke, S., & Woolley, J. (2010). Effective use of clear zones and barriers in a Safe System's context. In Proceedings of 2010 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference (pp. 1-10). www: RCAG.
2009 Anderson, R., & Doecke, S. (2009). The relative age related crashworthiness of the registered South Australian passenger vehicle fleet. In Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing & Education Conference (pp. 1-15). USB: RTA New South Wales.
2008 Doecke, S., Anderson, R., & Ponte, G. (2008). Bull bar prevalence among types of vehicle in metropolitan Adelaide. In R. Anderson (Ed.), Proceedings of Road Safety 2008 (pp. 43-51). CD: University of Adelaide.
- Koppel, S., & Johnson, M. (Eds.) (2024). Proceedings of the 2024 Australasian Road Safety Conference - Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. In Proceedings of the Australasian Road Safety Conference (pp. 1-575). Australasian College of Road Safety.
DOI
- Bates, L., & Johnson, M. (Eds.) (2023). Proceedings of the 2023 Australasian Road Safety Conference - Cairns, Queensland, Australia. In Proceedings of the Australasian Road Safety Conference (pp. 1-570). Australasian College of Road Safety.
DOI

Year Citation
2016 Doecke, S., & Baldock, M. R. (2016). In-depth crash investigations in South Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 2016 Australasian Road Safety Conference. Canberra, Australia.

Year Citation
2025 Doecke, S., Elsegood, M., & Ponte, G. (2025). Speeds in intersection crashes using EDR data (CASR227). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2025 Elsegood, M., Haller, O., Ponte, G., Doecke, S., & Baraky, A. (2025). Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2024 summary report (CASR248). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2025 Doecke, S., Elsegood, M., & Ponte, G. (2025). Event Data Recorders (EDRs) in Australia (CASR257). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2024 Doecke, S., Kloeden, C., & Woolley, J. (2024). NSW intelligent speed adaptation (ISA) trial: Modelling the effects of advisory ISA on the Australian driving population (CASR235). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2024 Elsegood, M., Ponte, G., Doecke, S., & English, I. (2024). Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2023 summary report (CASR240). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2024 Doecke, S., Elsegood, M., Thompson, J., Ponte, G., Edwards, S., & O'Donovan, S. (2024). Preventing and mitigating truck crashes: results from 100 in-depth no-blame truck crash investigations (CASR216). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2023 Doecke, S., Thompson, J. P., Elsegood, M. E., & Ponte, G. (2023). Profiling head on crashes in South Australia (CASR175). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2023 Elsegood, M., Doecke, S., & Ponte, G. (2023). Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2021 summary report (CASR194). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2021 Doecke, S., Elsegood, M., & Ponte, G. (2021). The contribution of various levels of speeding to fatal and serious road trauma (CASR189). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2021 Elsegood, M., Doecke, S., & Ponte, G. (2021). Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2020-21 summary report (CASR188). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2021 Doecke, S., Raftery, S., Elsegood, M., & Mackenzie, J. (2021). Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA): benefit analysis using EDR data from real world crashes (CASR176). Adelaide, Australia: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2020 Elsegood, M. E., Doecke, S., & Ponte, G. (2020). Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2019-20 summary report (CASR170). Adelaide: Centre for Automotie Safety Research.
2020 Elsegood, M., Doecke, S., & Ponte, G. (2020). Pre-impact braking in crashes: insights from event data recorders (EDRs) (CASR171). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2017 Doecke, S., & Ponte, G. (2017). The safety benefits of limiting ISA: a pilot study using real world crash situations (CASR141). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2016 Wundersitz, L. N., Doecke, S., Raftery, S., & Harrison, J. (2016). Quad bikes in South Australia: an investigation of their use, crash characteristics and associated injury risks (CASR134). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2014 Roberts, P., Woolley, J., & Doecke, S. (2014). Providing for road user error in the Safe System (AP-R460-14).
2014 Doecke, S. D., & Anderson, R. W. G. (2014). Vehicle frontal protection system geometry and pedestrian impacts: the effect of AS 4876.1-2002 geometric criteria (CASR112). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2013 Doecke, S. D., & Anderson, R. (2013). Crash reduction potential of connected vehicles in South Australia (CASR126). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2013 Doecke, S. D., & Woolley, J. (2013). Adequacy of barrier and median separation on rural roads (CASR087). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2013 Doecke, S. D., Mackenzie, J., & Woolley, J. (2013). Post impact trajectory of vehicles at rural intersections (CASR086). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2012 Anderson, R., Doecke, S. D., Mackenzie, J., Ponte, G., Paine, D., & Paine, M. (2012). Potential benefits of forward collision avoidance technology (CASR106). Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland.
2012 Doecke, S. D., & Woolley, J. (2012). Post impact trajectory of vehicles at metropolitan intersections (CASR060). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2012 Doecke, S. D., & Grigo, J. A. L. (2012). Annual performance indicators of enforced driver behaviours in South Australia, 2010 (CASR104). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2011 Doecke, S. D., & Woolley, J. (2011). Cost benefit analysis of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (CASR093). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2011 Doecke, S. D., & Grigo, J. A. L. (2011). Annual performance indicators of enforced driver behaviours in South Australia, 2009 (CASR084).
2011 Doecke, S. D., Anderson, R., & Woolley, J. (2011). Advisory Intelligent Speed Adaptation for government fleets (CASR099). Adelaide: Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2011 Doecke, S. D., Kloeden, C., & McLean, A. (2011). Casualty crash reductions from reducing various levels of speeding (CASR076). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.
2010 Wundersitz, L., Doecke, S., & Baldock, M. R. J. (2010). Annual performance indicators of enforced driver behaviours in South Australia, 2008 (CASR073). Centre for Automotive Safety Research.

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