AUSTRALIAN ROAD TRAUMA COSTS FOR 2015
* ECONOMIC COST ESTIMATED AT $30b A YEAR, UP FROM $27b IN 2006
Cost breakdown:
- Loss of life, health and wellbeing $4.9b
- Vehicle damage $4.3b
- Disability care $1.7b
- Hospital, medical, paramedical $1.6b
- Travel delay $1.1b
- Insurance $1.1b
- Workplace disruption $146.7m
* COST TO FEDERAL GOVT BUDGET ESTIMATED AT $3.7b
Cost breakdown:
- Forgone future taxation and additional income support payments $2.9b
- Health services $441.6m
- Emergency services $216.8m
- Vehicle-related $100m
- Disability care $58.9m
- Legal and other $44.1m
* ON OUR ROADS
- There were 679,359 road crashes in 2015, up by four per cent on 2006
- Road fatalities fell 25pct to 1205 in 2015 from 1598 in 2006
- Average age of person involved in a road fatality 45.6 years (up from 38.6 years in 2006)
- Males account for 72pct of road crash fatalities
- Hospitalised injury crashes rose 24.1pct to 37,964
- Of those hospitalised in 2015 after a crash, about 4400 became disabled
- Hospitalisation cost per road injury: $239,000
(Source: Cost of Road Trauma in Australia report by Economic Connections for the AAA)
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