Serious injury due to land transport accidents, Australia, 2003-04

Jesia G Berry
and
James E Harrison

October 2007
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Canberra
AIHW cat. no. INJCAT 107

This report presents national statistics on serious injury due to land transport accidents that resulted in admission to hospital in Australia during the one-year period 2003-04. It focuses on road vehicle traffic crashes in particular, and examines variables such as mode of transport, gender, age group and remoteness from an urban centre.

The report is available as a PDF document (~ 557 Kb).

Notes and corrections:

Note: Table 3.7 'Non-traffic serious injury-mechanism of injury for persons seriously injured in land transport accidents; Australia, 2003?04' has been revised as there was a cut and paste error in the columns affecting this table only. The opportunity was taken to make some changes to the text, mainly for clarity. The main findings remain unchanged. The previous version of the report is available here

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