ESTIMATING ROAD TRAUMA IN THE AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS POPULATION
This report compares the annual road death rate of both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in three jurisdictions, which currently collect this information, and then estimates the indigenous road toll Australia-wide. Two conclusions can be drawn from the analyses in this report. First, road crashes account for a greater proportion of road deaths in the indigenous population than the non-indigenous population. Secondly, based on the Australian indigenous road death estimates, the road death rate in the indigenous population may be three times higher than that of the non-indigenous population. It is estimated that in 1997 there were 31 indigenous deaths per 100,000 population. This is three times the estimate for the non-indigenous population (10 deaths per 100,000 population). (a)
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Corporate Authors:
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
P.O. Box 967, Civic Square
Canberra ACT 2608, Australia -
Authors:
- McFadden, M
- MCKIE, K
- MWESIGYE, S-E
- Publication Date: 2000-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 17 p.
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Serial:
- Issue Number: OR 22
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash rates; Crashes; Fatalities; High risk drivers; Statistics
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- ITRD Terms: 1643: Accident; 2279: Accident proneness; 1612: Accident rate; 8006: Australia; 1602: Fatality; 6555: Statistics
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00804076
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- ISBN: 0-642-25597-0
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 5 2001 12:00AM