Benchmarking the Performance of the National Road Safety Strategy
December Quarter 2024

The 12 months to 31 December 2024 saw 1,300 people die on Australian roads.

This is 3.3% higher than the previous calendar year’s 1,258 deaths, which itself had been 6.8% higher than the 2022 calendar year’s 1,178 death toll.

In fact, 2024 marks the fourth consecutive calendar year increase in national road deaths. This has never previously been observed in the years since the Australian Road Deaths Database was established in 1989.

A stated objective of Australia’s National Road Safety Strategy 2021-30 is to halve road deaths through the decade to 2030.

Yet at the end of 2024, Australia’s 12-month road toll is 18.5% higher than when the Strategy began.

No state or territory is on track to meet its NRSS targets.