Cost of Road Crashes in Australia 2006

Road crashes impose large human and financial costs on society and substantial investments are made in infrastructure and safety programs to reduce road trauma. The cost of road crashes is important to the safety debate in Australia, and the unit values particularly for a fatality, injury or cost of a fatal crash are key inputs into policy development and cost-benefit analysis for safety programs and infrastructure projects.

This research report prepared by BITRE investigates and presents the cost of road crashes in 2006. These 2006 estimates update previous estimates for 1996 released in 2000 (Bureau of Transport Economics (BTE) Road crash costs in Australia, Report 102).