Australian Road Fatalities Christmas 2024. View annual data on hospitalised injuries from road crashes as sourced from the australian institute of health and welfare using our dashboard and data tables for the national dataset, by state and territory and by. A family has been ripped apart by tragedy after a christmas eve joy ride turned fatal, with 13 deaths on australian roads rocking the holiday season.

For much of the past four decades, australia made steady progress on the road toll — from 2,800 people died in road accidents in 1989 to 1,094 by october 2020. Government data shows a total.