The aims of this research were to:
- Review the published literature in regard to the factors associated with serious injury crashes across metropolitan and rural (regional and remote) areas.
- Quantify and elucidate the risk of serious injury across Western Australia using police reported crash data for the period 2005-2009.
The research found that compared with crashes in the metropolitan area, crashes in the regional and remote area were 25%-50% more likely to result in an injury (any level) and two to three times more likely to result in either the death or hospitalisation of an involved road user.
Road safety benefit:
This research is beneficial to Government to the extent that it identified a range of potential counter-measures were identified in the areas of safer roads and roadsides, safer speeds, and safer road use and users.
