2008 Annual Report - Queensland Police Service - Queensland ...

Key priority area—Road safety
initiatives
The National Road Safety Strategy 2001-2010 aims to
reduce the annual number of road deaths per 100 000
population by 40 percent to no more than 5.6 deaths
per 100 000 population by December 2010.
The graph below depicts the rate of Queensland road
deaths per 100 000 population from 1975 to 2007.
Queensland road fatalilty rate per 100 000 population (1975-2007)
35
30
30.96
25
24.58
Fatality rate per 100 000 population
Fatality Rate
20
15
10
19.52
13.76
13.34
13.73
12.73
13.12
13.97
11.53
10.6
8.09
8.97
8.9
8.93
8.7
8.16
8
8.3
8.2
8.6
5
0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau 2008
The 2007 road toll stood at 360 deaths. Compared
with the previous five-year average, the road toll in
2007 increased by 12%. This was the highest road toll
recorded since 1997, when 360 people lost their lives
on Queensland roads.
It is generally recognised that factors such as strong
economic activity and population growth have an
influence on road trauma trends. Over the last five
years, Queensland has experienced the highest rate of
population growth in the country.
As at midnight 30 June 2008, 158 people have been
killed on Queensland’s roads, 29 lives less than the
same period in 2007.
Random Roadside Drug Testing is designed to curb driver impairment
and reduce road trauma.
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Output3: Traffic Management