Social Cost of Serious Casualty Crashes
 (Vehicle-Kilometres Travelled)

$ million cost of serious casualty crashes per 100 million veh-kms

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NOTES: The estimated average cost per serious casualty crash for Australia is $248,000 (1999), based on the RTA Economic Analysis Manual update of ARRB (1992) Costs for Accident Types ARR 227.

Source

Data on serious casualty crashes and persons killed or hospitalised supplied by State and Territory agencies (Australia) and the Land Transport Safety Authority (New Zealand). Estimated motor vehicle travel sourced from the ABS Survey of Motor Vehicle Usage and Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner Ltd. — consultants for Transit New Zealand.

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