Australia has a fundamental, deep, and enduring transport injustice. First Nations people endure road deaths and injury figures at vastly higher rates than the figure for non-First Nations people, suggesting that road safety research has not translated into successful policies and programs that sustainably reduce First Nations road trauma. In this paper, we argue that the decolonization of road safety research can only occur with First Nations people using culturally appropriate methodologies. We evaluate the scope and possibility of First Nations methodologies for decolonizing road safety, finding that yarning, or the ubiquitous use of conversation and storytelling to generate, pass on, and exchange knowledge, is a promising research methodology for decolonizing Australian road safety.

澳大利亚有一个根本的、深刻的和持久的交通不公。原住民承受的道路死亡和伤害数字远高于非原住民的数字，这表明道路安全研究尚未转化为可持续减少原住民道路创伤的成功政策和计划。在本文中，我们认为道路安全研究的非殖民化只能发生在原住民使用文化上适当的方法。我们评估了原住民道路安全非殖民化方法的范围和可能性，发现纱线或无处不在地使用对话和讲故事来产生、传递和交流知识，是澳大利亚道路安全非殖民化的一种很有前途的研究方法。