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Report
Trends in serious injury due to road vehicle traffic crashes, Australia: 2001 to 2010
Publisher
Traffic accidents
Transport
Australia
Resources
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 apo-nid61604.pdf
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Description
Summary
This report presents estimates of trends in the number and rate of persons seriously injured in Australia due to road vehicle traffic crashes. Serious injury is defined as cases where a person was admitted to hospital for an injury and was discharged alive. Cases involving types of injury that are life-threatening are the main focus. Deaths are not included.
Trends in serious injury
Over the 10-year period from 2001 to 2010, age-standardised rates for people seriously injured due to a road vehicle traffic crash fluctuated but increased overall, from 141.6 to 146.4 per 100,000 population, an average annual increase of 0.9%.
All jurisdictions except for Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania showed increases in age-standardised rates of serious injury due to road vehicle traffic crashes over the 10-year period. Victoria was the only jurisdiction to record a statistically significant decrease.
Publication Details
ISBN:
978-1-74249-879-9
Copyright:
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Flinders University 2015
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
15 Feb 2016
