Road Safety Statistics

BITRE publishes regular monthly, quarterly and annual road safety crash data series. In addition, research papers and information sheets are released on an occasional basis. The fatality and enforcement data provided here are supplied by the states and territories.

Latest Australian Data

Deaths

• Monthly Bulletin
• Monthly Dashboard
• Australian Road Deaths Database
• National Crash Dashboard

Hospitalised Injuries

• Hospitalised Injuries from Road Crashes Dashboard
• Excel Tables
• Trauma Registry Cases

Regular Road Safety Publications

A number of statistical publications are released in PDF format with an accompanying dashboard.

• Monthly - Road Deaths Australia–Monthly Bulletins and Dashboard
  Monthly summaries and current counts of road crashes deaths.

• Quarterly - Road Deaths In Crashes Involving Heavy Vehicles–Quarterly Bulletins
  Quarterly summaries and current counts of road crash deaths involving heavy vehicles.

• Annual - Road Trauma Australia
  Summaries and trends for road crash deaths and crashes.

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

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

• Annual - Enforcement dashboard
  Road safety enforcement and infringement data.

Occasional Road Safety Publications

• Run-off road crashes in Australia (2022)
• Holiday Road Deaths Dashboard (2020)
• Vision Zero—Years with Zero Road Crash Fatalities Dashboards (2019)
• Location and Other Risk Factors in Crashes (2018)
• Modelling Road Safety in Australian States and Territories (2018)
• Motorcycling Safety (2017)
• Light Commercial Vehicle Safety (2017)
• Developing National Road Safety indicators for Injury (2016)
• Heavy Truck Safety: Crash Analysis and Trends (2016)
• Australian Cycling Safety (2015)
• Pedestrians and Road Safety (2015)
• The Impact of Airbags and Electronic Stability Control on Australian Light Vehicle Fatalities (2015)
• Impact of Road Trauma and Measures to improve outcomes (2014)
• Road safety of Older Australians (2014)
• Young Adult Road Safety (2013)
• Child Pedestrian Safety (2012)

Links

• National Road Safety Strategy 
• Office of Road Safety

State and Territory Road Safety Agencies

• NSW
  Transport for NSW— Centre for Road Safety
• Victoria
  Department of Transport—VicRoads
• Queensland
  Department of Transport and Main Roads—Road  Safety
• South Australia
  Department for Infrastructure and Transport—Road Safety
• Western Australia
  Department for Infrastructure and Transport—Road Safety Commission
• Tasmania  
  Department of State Growth—Road Safety
• Northern Territory
  Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics—Road Safety
• ACT
  Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate—Road Safety

Feedback

If you have any feedback on these publications, or questions, please send to roadsafety@infrastructure.gov.au.