Transport Safety
Chapter 10
This chapter provides data on Australian safety for road, aviation, rail and maritime transport. This includes data relating to crashes, fatalities, injuries and their rates of occurrence, as well as how this can differ for different demographics, states and territories (subject to data availability).
- In 2023, 1 258 people died in road crashes in Australia, down from 1 737 in 2001.
- 33 aviation fatalities occurred in Australia in 2023.
- Road crashes caused 40 i000 people in Australia to be with hospitalized injuries in 2021 up from 27 i000 in 2001.
- On Australia's railways, 15 people died and 63 were seriously injured in 2023 (excludes suspected suicide).
Figure 21 shows the number of fatal crashes over time (with road crashes on the left axis and marine and aviation crashes on the right axis). The average number of fatal road crashes (the number of crashes or accidents which resulted in at least one death) from 2010 to 2023 is 1109. In 2023 there was 1149 fatal road crashes. Fatal aviation crashes have remained between 14 and 23 since 2016. Marine fatal crashes have remained between 2 and 6 from 2010 to 2023.
Figure 21 Number of fatal crashes, by transport mode
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- Transport Safety—Yearbook 2024 (178 KB)
- Australian Infrastructure and Transport Statistics—Yearbook 2024