Blood Alcohol Levels of Persons Killed in Motor Traffic Accidents in New South Wales

Coroners' data from New South Wales Government examines blood alcohol concentrations of fatally injured crash victims. It estimates that 30% to 60% of all drivers and motorcyclists who die in traffic crashes have a blood alcohol concentration at or above the legal limit of 0.08g/100ml. The dataset is supported by summarized published data from Victoria and Queensland.

Use Cases

• Estimate the prevalence of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities based on coroners' data.
• Analyze the proportion of unknown blood alcohol concentrations in fatal crash data.
• Compare alcohol-related fatality statistics across different Australian states.
• Model the range of potential alcohol involvement in traffic fatalities based on assumptions about unknown data.

Strengths

• Provides a specific estimated range (30% to 60%) for drivers and motorcyclists with BAC >= 0.08g/100ml.
• Draws on primary data from NSW coroners' courts and includes summarized data from Victoria and Queensland.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au sources.

Provenance

Source

NSW Government

Collection Method

Data collected from New South Wales coroners' courts.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-25 20:32:53.850579; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia, with summarized data from Victoria and Queensland.