The Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics is managing an Austroads project to develop a national source of serious injury data by linking hospital and crash data from state and territory health and transport agencies.
Hospital data does not provide information about the crash, which is needed to target road safety measures, and police-provided crash data does not give the medical assessment of injury severity, nor does it include serious injuries that have not been reported to police. Linking these sources will create a richer data set to enhance analysis and research to improve road safety outcomes.
Visit the Austroads website to view stage 1 of the report.
