Bus Safety Statistical Snapshot

This statistical snapshot provides a newly consolidated view of the bus fleet along with information on crashes, injuries and deaths involving buses.

Key insights include:

• Bus fleet: most buses involved in a crash are on the younger side – 10 years old or less.
• Fatal crashes: bus crashes made up around 1.6% of all fatal road crashes in the past decade, from 2014 to 2023 with most of them happening in major cities of Australia.
• Injuries: On average, 239 bus occupants per year were hospitalised with injuries (2012 to 2021), with the number of injuries declining over time. The main cause of these injuries was from transport accidents that don’t involve a crash, such as boarding or alighting a bus.
• Fatalities: Pedestrians and car occupants lead the number of fatalities in bus-involved crashes.