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Crash statistics update Cycling safety forum
Acknowledgements:
Office for Road Safety
Data extracted from the Integrated Road Information System (IRIS)
maintained by Main Roads
Annual proportion of people killed and seriously injured by road user type, WA 2000-2009
Cyclists killed and seriously injured by year of crash, WA 2000-2009
Annual numbers of cyclists killed by Australian State and Territory, 2000-2009 (trends in fatality rate per million population)
Year ACT Qld WA NSW Vic SA Tas NT Aust
2000 0.00 1.68 0.11 0.93 2.74 1.33 0.00 10.23 1.62
2001 0.00 4.13 0.26 1.98 1.25 3.97 2.12 0.00 2.37
2002 0.00 1.35 0.31 1.96 1.44 1.97 0.00 0.00 1.73
2003 0.00 1.84 0.05 1.35 0.81 3.27 0.00 0.00 1.31
2004 0.00 2.31 0.15 2.39 1.81 1.95 4.14 4.95 2.14
2005 3.03 1.25 0.25 1.92 1.39 1.93 8.22 14.54 2.01
2006 2.99 2.20 0.15 1.03 2.73 2.55 2.04 0.00 1.88
2007 0.00 2.38 0.19 2.03 1.15 3.15 4.06 0.00 1.95
2008 0.00 1.62 0.14 1.14 1.69 0.62 0.00 0.00 1.30
2009 0.00 1.81 0.00 1.82 1.10 1.23 3.97 0.00 1.41 Average annual rate change per million population - last 5 years -0.61 0.11 -0.05 -0.02 -0.06 -0.14 -0.85 -2.91 -0.12
- last 10 years 0.00 0.01 -0.01 0.09 -0.16 -0.01 0.40 -1.02 -0.02
Crash types, WA 2000-2009
Cyclists killed and seriously injured:
by road movement
• 36% of killed manoeuvring from footpath or leaving driveway
• 35% seriously injured at intersections
single vehicle (cycle) crashes
• 62% overturned
• 16% hit kerb, pedestrian or animal
multiple vehicle crashes• 61% struck side of another at a right angle and • 15% sideswiping another while travelling in the same direction. • 12% turning right across oncoming traffic
Differences in metropolitan, regional and remote areas, number of cyclists killed and seriously injured in road crashes, WA 2000-2009
Perth metropolitan area Regional and remote area
Speed zone of crash site where at least one cyclist was killed or seriously injured, WA 2000-2009
Posted speed limit in areas where crashes involving at least one cyclist who was killed or seriously injured occurred, WA 2000-2009
Single Vehicle Multiple Vehicle Unknown Speed Zone Count % Count % Count %
<50 22 28.6 269 30.5 44 46.8
50 24 31.2 240 27.2 21 22.3
60 23 29.9 241 27.3 25 26.6
70 3 3.9 69 7.8 1 1.1
80 2 2.6 37 4.2 1 1.1
90 0 0.0 13 1.5 0 0.0
100 1 1.3 8 0.9 0 0.0
110 2 2.6 5 0.6 2 2.1
Total 77 100.0 882 100.0 94 100.0
Contributing factors in vehicle crashes involving at least one cyclist who was killed or seriously injured, WA 2000-2009
Single Vehicle Multiple vehicle
Factor Count %
Overturns 29 37.7
Helmet not worn 15 19.5
Excessive speed 5 6.5
Hit animal 4 5.2
Hit pedestrian 4 5.2
Other-non-collision 4 5.2
Wet Road 4 5.2
Cyclists BAC?0.05 3 3.9
Hit object 3 3.9
Run-off-road 3 3.9
Unsealed road 2 2.6
Overcast 1 1.3
Total 77 100.0
Factor Count % Right Angle 294 33.3 Helmet not worn 198 22.4 Sideswipe same direction 92 10.4 Right Turn Thru 86 9.8 Rear End 70 7.9 Wet Road 70 7.9 Overcast 35 4.0 Drivers BAC>=0.05 12 1.4 Head On 9 1.0 Cyclists BAC>=0.05 7 0.8 Excessive speed 7 0.8 Raining 2 0.2 Total 882 100
Helmet use of cyclists killed and seriously injured in police attended crashes, WA 2000-2009
Blood alcohol concentration of cyclists killed and seriously injured in police attended crashes, WA 2000-2009
Perth metropolitan area Regional and remote area
Percentage of cyclists killed and seriously injured in police attended crashes where speed was a contributing factor, WA 2000-2009
Cyclists killed and seriously injured by gender, WA 2000-2009
Sex Killed Seriously Injured
Total
Male 28 841 869
Female 3 166 169
Unknown 0 15 15
Total 31 1022 1053
Cyclists killed and seriously injured by age, WA 2005-2009
Life threatening injury rates of male cyclists involved in road traffic crashes by age, Australia, 2000/01-2007/08
Source: AIHW, Trends in serious injury due to land transport accidents, Australia 2000–01 to 2007–08.
5–1415–24 25–44
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Cyclists killed and seriously injured by month of crash, WA 2000-2009
Cyclists killed and seriously injured in road crashes by day or week and time of crash, WA 2000-2009
