Safety Statistics

Road Safety Statistics

Latest Australian road deaths data:

Deaths:
- There was a total of 77 road deaths during the month of May 2021. The current figure is 20.6 per cent lower than the average for May over the previous five years.
- During the 12 months ended May 2021, there were 1,125 road deaths. This is an increase of 2.4 per cent from the 12-month period ending May 2020.
- Presently, the rate of annual deaths per 100,000 population stands at 4.4. This is a 1.8 per cent increase compared to the rate for the 12-month period ending May 2020.
Hospitalised Injuries:
- Latest available data is for the 12 months period ended June 2018. In 2017-18, there were 39,404 people admitted to hospital with road crash injuries. The annual rate of admission per 100,000 population was 156.5.
- See the Serious Injuries from road crashes dashboard and the Hospitalised Injury tables for more detail.
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.
Road deaths data are preliminary and subject to revision by jurisdictions.

Other Road Safety Dashboards

Australia Mobile Phone Infringements
Australia Roadside Breath Testing in 2019
Australia Roadside Drug Testing in 2019
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 2019.
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

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.

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