Fatalities data

A road death (or fatality) is a person who dies within 30 days as a result of injuries sustained in a road crash. This excludes deaths from road crashes as a result of suicide or natural causes, such as a heart attack.

Road deaths dashboard

This dashboard shows monthly data on Australian road deaths reported by state and territory transport authorities.

The dashboard contains counts of deaths on Australian roads over the recent 10 years.

Use the dashboard to explore data by time period, state or territory, road user and crash type.

Data is sourced from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics Australian Road Deaths Database (ARDD). Data in the ARDD is preliminary and is updated regularly to account for updated state and territory counts and coronial findings, such as death by suicide.

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National Crash dashboard

This dashboard shows annual data on Australian road deaths as reported by state and territory transport authorities.

The dashboard contains counts of deaths on Australian roads from 2008.

Use the dashboard to explore data under four themes, overview, roads, road users, vehicles and fatality rates. Data can be filtered on remoteness, age group, sex, road user, vehicle and crash type.

Data is sourced from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics National Crash Database.

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International Deaths Comparison

This dashboard shows annual road deaths data for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members and Australian states and territories.

The dashboard contains counts and rates of road deaths in Australia and OECD members in 2020.

Use the dashboard to explore data by country and fatality rates per population, registered vehicle, and vehicle kilometres travelled.

Data is sourced from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics.

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First Nations Peoples road deaths

The excel tables present annual road deaths, population and road death rates per 100,000 population from 2012 to 2021 by state and territory (where data is available), by indigenous status. The excel tables include road deaths and road death rates per 100,000 population for First Nations Peoples by age group, sex, road user, remoteness area and vehicle type. Additional tables for First Nations Peoples population are available by state and territory and age group and sex.

First Nations Peoples road deaths excel tables