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Department of Transport and Main Roads

Gaining new insights through linking serious injury road crash data

3 bike riders, 2 riding in one direction and one in the other, on a bike path running parallel to one road and intersecting with one other that turns off at a T-intersection. There is a speed bump on the road where it crosses the bike path, and 2 of the bike riders are crossing on it. A car is turning from the parallel road into the intersection.
Data on bicycle incidents and injuries can help us to identify and implement improved road safety measures.

Overview

Action 5.5: Test improvements to link bicycle injury and incident data sources to enhance analysis of serious injury road crash data.

Lead agency: Department of Transport and Main Roads

Status: Being finalised

Achievements

We are working on a database and supporting processes to securely store linked transport-related serious injury data from various sources including:

  • road crash
  • hospital admission
  • cause of death
  • ambulance
  • compulsory third-party insurance claim data.

This database will let us better capture and analyse serious injury road crash data.

We established Memorandums of Understanding with the Motor Accident Insurance Commission, and Queensland Health to allow data sharing between departments. The data will be linked by Queensland Health's data linkage unit. The data will be managed and analysed by the cross-agency Road Safety Data Bureau.

Using linked data, Road Safety Data Bureau will be able to identify factors and associations that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to determine.

Next steps

The data will be processed and analysed. We will then create reports and dashboards to present the serious injury road crash data.

Last updated 7 September 2023