Road Safety Statistics

Latest Australian road deaths data:

• There were 86 road deaths in January 2020. This is 18.7 per cent lower than the average for January over the previous five years.
• There were 1,161 deaths during the 12 months ended January 2020. This is 8 deaths (0.7%) more than the same period ending January 2019.
• Road deaths data are preliminary and subject to revision by jurisdictions
• Monthly Road Deaths Dashboard
  
  
• Road Deaths Australia Monthly Bulletin
  This bulletin contains monthly summaries and current counts of Australian fatal road crashes.
• Australian Road Deaths Database
  The Australian Road Deaths Database provides basic details of road transport crash fatalities in Australia.

Other Road Safety Dashboards

• Australia Roadside Breath Testing in 2018
  
  
• Australia Roadside Drug Testing in 2018
  
  
• Vision Zero–years with zero road crash fatalities. These Vision Zero maps by Local Government Area or Statistical Area level 3 present locations with zero deaths and number of years with zero deaths for years 2008 to 2017.
  
  
• Australian Road Deaths during the Christmas Period
  
  
• Australian Road Deaths during the Easter Period
  
  

Regular Road Safety Publications

• Road Deaths Australia–Monthly Bulletins
  This bulletin contains monthly summaries and current counts of Australian fatal road crashes.

• Road Trauma Australia–Annual Summaries
  This bulletin contains annual summaries and current counts of Australian fatal road crashes.

• Fatal Heavy Vehicle Crashes Australia–Quarterly Bulletins
  Quarterly statistical summaries of fatal heavy vehicle crashes

• Road Trauma Involving Heavy Vehicles–Annual Summaries
  This bulletin contains annual summaries and current counts of Australian fatal road crashes involving heavy vehicles.

• International Road Safety Comparisons–Annual
  This report presents summaries of fatalities and fatality rates for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations and Australian states and territories.

• Hospitalised Injuries
  This Excel sheet provides summary traffic hospitalised injury series. These series are produced by the National Injury Surveillance Unit at Flinders University under an agreement with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

• Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry Cases–Bi-annual Tables
  This Excel sheet provides summary tables of severe injury cases (ISS>12) for Australia added to the Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry. These tables are produced under the joint funding agreement between the Department of Health and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development.

Occasional Road Safety Publications

• Location and Other Risk Factors in Crashes
• Modelling Road Safety in Australian States and Territories
• Motorcycling Safety
• Light Commercial Vehicle Safety
• Developing National Road Safety indicators for Injury
• Heavy Truck Safety: Crash Analysis and Trends
• Australian Cycling Safety,
• Pedestrians and Road Safety,
• The Impact of Airbags and Electronic Stability Control on Australian Light Vehicle Fatalities,
• Impact of Road Trauma and Measures to improve outcomes,
• Road safety of Older Australians,
• Young Adult Road Safety,
• Child Pedestrian Safety.

Statistical alerts for recent OECD road safety reports are available here.

External links to OECD and Australian state and territory road safety data are available here.

Office of Road Safety and National Road Safety Strategy

The National Road Safety Strategy sets out nationally agreed objectives, targets and priorities for road safety improvement in Australia. More information including NRSS statistical indicators are available at roadsafety.gov.au.

The Office of Road Safety was established on 1 July 2019 to provide greater leadership and coordination of road safety efforts at a national level.

Related Links

• Australian Road Deaths Database
• External links to OECD and Australian state and territory road safety data