Road Safety - TAC



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Contents

Status Report 4

Lives lost on Victorian roads 4

Injured claimants who were admitted to hospital within 7 days of accident, rolling 12 month to 31st December 2018 5

Lives lost: 12 months to 30th June 2019 6

Injured claimants who were admitted to hospital within 7 days of accident, 12 months to 31st December 2018 (claim acceptance date) 10

Lives Lost by Week (2014 to 2019) 12

The National Picture 13

Explanations and References 14

Useful Internet Sites 15

Victorian monthly lives lost since 1951 18

Notes about the data in this report

• All data provided in this report is the data most recently available at time of production. Fatality data are updated to the end of report month. A 6-month lag applies to TAC claims data.

• Reported data will have one extra day of exposure for leap years.

• Data is subject to revision as additional information about known accidents/claims is received, and as new accident/claim reports are received and processed.

Status Report

Lives lost on Victorian roads

• The rolling 12 month number of lives lost to 30th June 2019 is 268. The rolling 12 month number of lives lost to 30th June 2018 stood at 238 (an increase 30).

• 155 people lost their lives year to date to the end of June 2019 on Victorian roads. This compares to 100 lives lost year to date to the end of June 2018 (an increase of 55).

|Category |2019 |2018 |2017 |2019 v 2018 |2019 v 2017 |5 Year |

| | | | | | |Average |

|Lives Lost (Rolling 12 Month Total) | | | | | |

|Lives Lost (to June) |268 |238 |267 |+30 |+1 |258 |

|per 10,000 veh |0.53 |0.49 |0.56 |+0.04 |-0.03 |0.54 |

|per 100,000 pop |4.10 |3.72 |4.24 |+0.38 |-0.14 |4.14 |

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|Crashes (Rolling 12 Month Total) | | | | | |

|Fatal crashes (to June) |253 |219 |257 |+34 |-4 |242 |

|per 10,000 veh |0.50 |0.45 |0.54 |+0.05 |-0.04 |0.50 |

|per 100,000 pop |3.88 |3.43 |4.08 |+0.45 |-0.20 |3.78 |

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Victoria – Lives Lost, rolling 12 months total

Injured claimants who were admitted to hospital within 7 days of accident, rolling 12 month to 31st December 2018

|Category |2018 |2017 |2016 |

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|Overview |  |  |  |  |  |  |

|Lives Lost |268 |238 |267 |+30 |+1 |258 |

|Fatal Crashes |253 |219 |257 |+34 |-4 |241 |

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|Sex |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Female |69 |67 |72 |+2 |-3 |71 |

|Male |198 |171 |195 |+27 |+3 |187 |

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|Road user |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Bicyclist |11 |8 |9 |+3 |+2 |10 |

|Driver |117 |115 |146 |+2 |-29 |126 |

|Motorcyclist |49 |37 |41 |+12 |+8 |41 |

|Passenger |44 |44 |35 |  |+9 |44 |

|Pedestrian |46 |34 |36 |+12 |+10 |37 |

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|Location |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Melbourne |117 |104 |107 |+13 |+10 |116 |

|Rural Victoria |150 |133 |160 |+17 |-10 |142 |

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|Age group |  |  |  |  | |  |

|0-4 |2 |0 |4 |+2 |-2 |2 |

|5-15 |10 |4 |3 |+6 |+7 |5 |

|16-17 |4 |4 |3 |  |+1 |7 |

|18-20 |19 |16 |15 |+3 |+4 |19 |

|21-25 |20 |24 |26 |-4 |-6 |23 |

|26-29 |24 |10 |22 |+14 |+2 |20 |

|30-39 |37 |38 |40 |-1 |-3 |36 |

|40-49 |30 |35 |41 |-5 |-11 |37 |

|50-59 |31 |34 |31 |-3 |0 |31 |

|60-69 |30 |29 |26 |+1 |+4 |28 |

|70+ |59 |44 |55 |+15 |+4 |50 |

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|Accident Type |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Intersection |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Adjacent direction |32 |31 |35 |+1 |-3 |32 |

|Opposing direction |10 |10 |7 |0 |+3 |9 |

|Mid-block/other |  |  |  |  | |  |

|Head on |41 |39 |42 |+2 |-1 |42 |

|Same direction |18 |19 |19 |-1 |-1 |18 |

|Manoeuvre/o'taking |15 |13 |9 |+2 |+6 |14 |

|On path |1 |7 |7 |-6 |-6 |5 |

|Single vehicle |99 |80 |107 |+19 |-8 |98 |

|Other (incl peds) |49 |37 |41 |+12 |+8 |40 |

Lives Lost: 12 months to 30th June 2019 – Continued

|Category |2019 |2018 |

|  |2019 |2018 |2017 |2016 |2019 v 2018 |

|NSW |367 |393 |356 |386 |-26 |(-7%) |

|VIC |272 |239 |267 |265 |+33 |(+14%) |

|QLD |228 |247 |251 |244 |-19 |(-8%) |

|SA |103 |99 |82 |97 |+4 |(+4%) |

|WA |172 |166 |184 |171 |+6 |(+4%) |

|TAS |32 |35 |31 |40 |-3 |(-9%) |

|NT |37 |42 |44 |44 |-5 |(-12%) |

|ACT |6 |7 |11 |13 |-1 |(-14%) |

|AUST TOTAL |1,207 |1,228 |1,226 |1,260 |-21 |(-2%) |

|AUST minus VIC |935 |989 |959 |995 |-54 |(-5%) |

|State |Lives Lost per 10,000 registered vehicles |Fatalities per 100,000 population |

|  |(12 months to June) |(12 months to June) |

|  |2019 |2018 |2017 |2019 |2018 |2017 |

|VIC |0.54 |0.49 |0.56 |4.17 |3.72 |4.27 |

|QLD |0.55 |0.61 |0.64 |4.51 |4.95 |5.13 |

|SA |0.72 |0.70 |0.59 |5.91 |5.72 |4.77 |

|WA |0.77 |0.74 |0.83 |6.60 |6.46 |7.13 |

|TAS |0.65 |0.73 |0.66 |6.03 |6.66 |5.96 |

|NT |2.29 |2.74 |2.82 |14.97 |16.98 |17.84 |

|ACT |0.19 |0.23 |0.37 |1.41 |1.68 |2.69 |

|AUST TOTAL |0.62 |0.64 |0.65 |4.79 |4.92 |5.02 |

|AUST minus VIC |0.65 |0.69 |0.69 |5.01 |5.34 |5.28 |

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Explanations and References

LGA: Local Government Areas. Crash locations for acute hospitalised claims are assigned to LGA’s based on the crash postcode recorded by Victoria Police. Crash locations for fatal crashes are coded exactly to an LGA by Victoria Police.

Claimants: Refers to people injured in transport accidents who have an accepted claim with the TAC.

Hospitalisation: refers to all hospital admission that occurred within 7 days of accident.

Useful Internet Sites

TAC Sites

• TAC Safety (Road Safety) .au

• TAC How safe is your car .au

• TAC How safe is your first car .au

• TAC Motorcycle Safety Website .au

• TAC Corporate site tac..au

• Drivesmart drivesmart..au

• Ridesmart .au

Victorian Sites:

• VicRoads vicroads..au

• Victoria Police police..au

• Parliamentary Road Safety Committee

• RACV .au

• Monash University Accident Research Centre monash.edu.au/muarc

• Cameras Save Lives camerassavelives..au

• VicRoads Learner Driver Site lsite.vicroads..au/Learners

• Road Safety Education Victoria roadsafetyeducation..au

National and Interstate Sites:

• ARRB Transport Research .au

• Australian Transport Safety Bureau .au

• Motor Accidents Authority (NSW) maa..au

• Motor Accidents Insurance Board (TAS) maib..au

• Motor Accident Commission, Allianz (SA) mac..au

• Motor Accidents Compensation, TIO, (NT) .au/mac

• Insurance Commission of Western Australia icwa..au

• Motor Accident Insurance Commission (QLD) maic..au

International Sites:

• National Highway Traffic Safety Admin (USA) nhtsa.

• Swedish Road and Transport Institute (VTI) vti.se

• SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research swov.nl

Related Sites:

• Alcohol and Drug Foundation .au

Figures

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Graph 1a – Melbourne/Rural lives lost

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Graph 1b – Melbourne/Rural claims involving an acute hospital admission

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Graph 1c – Melbourne/Rural Claims involving hospital admission greater than 14 days

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Graph 1d – Victoria/Australia lives lost per 100,000 population

Victorian monthly lives lost since 1951

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Quarterly Statistics – June 2019

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JUN 2019

TOWARDS ZERO QUARTERLY STATISTICS

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