Why using crash data is important
Crash data is an important tool that helps you understand significant road safety issues in your local government area (LGA). It enables you to adopt a Safe System approach and can be used as evidence to support new safety measures such as improving the road environment, purchasing safer vehicles and improving community education.
Using crash data effectively is crucial in developing a strategic road safety plan. You can analyse patterns in crash types, road features, vehicle factors (including size, mass, age and safety features), local environmental conditions and driver factors.
Consider comparing data with other LGAs to solve similar safety issues.
Local area data resources
Some of these links can only be accessed with a Council Hub membership or other permissions.
Safe System Analytics (SSA) Council app (app registration required)
The SSA Council app is a powerful tool that provides local council staff with detailed crash information. You can filter detailed crash statistics for LGAs, compare them with other LGAs and visualise your data.
Only local council staff can access this app. If you're a contractor working with local council you can contact your direct representative to obtain reports or use publicly accessible data sources below.
The below user guide explains how you can register for the app and use each report effectively:
SSA Council app user guide (Council Hub login required)
Fatal crash reports
LGA fatal crash reports are emailed to nominated people within each local council. Council Road Safety Officers can learn more in the RSO FAQs (Council RSO Hub login required).
Your council's records management systems
Use your council's records management system to review other evidence of road safety issues including customer complaints.
NSW data resources
Centre for Road Safety
This website hosts summary crash and casualty data and interactive crash statistics. Anyone can access:
- the daily, monthly and year-to-date road fatalities progress
- interactive reports on crash location and types, and road user deaths and injuries
- serious injury and fatality trends
- crash reports and publications
- analysis of crash statistics.
You can easily share these publicly accessible insights with external stakeholders in your community. Only local councils can access the detailed insights on the Safe System Analytics Council app.
Registration and Licensing Statistics Portal
This portal provides access to the latest registration and licensing data (roads) relating to registrations, licensing, sanctions, licence testing, mobility parking scheme and NSW photo cards. You can also get an overview of the variety of licence types in your LGA.
Revenue NSW data and statistics
This website provides data and statistics for various taxes, duties, benefits, penalty (infringement) notices and client surveys. Some of this data can help you understand road user behaviours and what road safety education topics should be targeted.
Traffic Volume Viewer
This map can help you analyse which roads or at which intersections has traffic increased or decreased over time.
Live Traffic NSW
This site provides real-time information about crashes and changes in traffic conditions across NSW. You can use this information to update the local community on your social media and communication channels,
Open data
Here, you can find all the available application programming interfaces (APls) and downloadable datasets related to NSW crash locations, casualty counts, environmental conditions and vehicle types involved. This data covers the past five years and is updated annually. We recommend local councils use the Safe System Analytics Council app first as it has more comprehensive data.
National data resources
National Road Safety Data Hub
This hub aims to provide nationally consistent. timely and consumable data and information to support the prevention of fatal and serious injuries on Australian roads.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
This website analyses sources beyond crash data to get the whole story. It provides demographic statistics to help you understand your community members so you can effectively educate and engage with them.
Helpful links:
Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE)
This website provides economic analysis, research and statistics on infrastructure and transport issues to inform Australian Government policy development and promote broader community understanding. It also provides data on road deaths dating back 30 years.