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Description
Crash data from Queensland roads contains information on location and characteristics of casualty crashes reported to police from 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2025. The dataset is provided by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) and extracted from the Queensland RoadCrash database. It includes fatal, hospitalisation, medical treatment, and minor injury crashes, as well as property damage crashes up to 31 December 2010.
Use Cases
Analyze spatial patterns of casualty crashes based on reported location coordinates.
Model temporal trends in road safety based on the 24.5-year time range from 2001 to 2025.
Assess the severity distribution of crashes based on the reported categories of fatal, hospitalisation, medical treatment, and minor injury.
Study the impact of policy changes, such as the cessation of property damage-only crash reporting after 2010.
Strengths
Covers a long temporal range of 24.5 years, from 1 January 2001 to 30 June 2025.
Includes multiple severity levels: fatal, hospitalisation, medical treatment, and minor injury crashes.
Provides geospatial coordinates referenced to the GDA2020 datum for location analysis.
Explicitly states the reporting status for fatal data up to 31 October 2025 and non-fatal data up to 31 July 2025.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Property damage-only crashes ceased to be reported after 31 December 2010, limiting longitudinal analysis of that crash type.
Data for events within the last 12 months is considered preliminary, as investigations can take up to a year to finalise.
Provenance
Source
Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Queensland, via the Queensland RoadCrash database.
Collection Method
Extracted from police-reported crash records.
Time Range
1 January 2001 to 30 June 2025.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-27 18:03:13.124082; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Queensland, Australia (public roads).
License is CC-BY-4.0. Coordinates use the GDA2020 geodetic datum (previously GDA94).