New data shows road trauma killed 1,253 Australians in the 12 months to 30 November 2023 – a 6.3% increase on the preceding 12-month period. This is the highest 12-month road toll since March 2018.
read moreA meeting of the nation’s transport ministers has missed a golden opportunity to curb Australia’s surging road toll by linking road safety data transparency with federal road funding to states.
read moreThe Albanese Government’s hand-picked reviewer of federal-state road funding arrangements says urgent reform is needed to improve data reporting, manage project performance, and ensure funding integrity.
read moreNew data shows the nation’s road toll continuing to climb. Yet the Government has not prioritised transport safety in its announced Infrastructure Policy Statement.
read moreThe Australian Trucking Association has joined the AAA’s Data Saves Lives campaign, aimed at compelling governments to end secrecy about data revealing the causes of car crashes and the state of the nation’s roads.
read moreThe nation’s peak motoring body has backed a call by an all-party Victorian Parliamentary committee for the state to collect and publish more data about the causes of car crashes.
read moreA lack of publicly available information about Australian roads and crashes causes makes it impossible to accurately explain dramatic increases in the road toll or the effectiveness of the measures being funded to prevent them.
read moreThe road toll continues to rise and national injuries still cannot be counted or reported, despite years of promises from governments that such progress on data collection is imminent.
read moreThe latest quarterly Benchmarking of the National Road Safety Strategy shows governments remain unable to track most of their agreed targets, and road deaths are now increasing, rather than declining as intended.
read moreNew data shows 1,202 people died on the nation’s roads in the 12 months to 31 May 2023, which is 24 more deaths than in the previous corresponding 12-month period – a 2 per cent increase.
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