Causal Factors in Fatal Crashes
Speeding
During 1998 speed was a causal factor in:-
- 42% of fatal crashes (up from 36% in 1997)
- 19% of serious injury crashes
- 12% of injury crashes
- 37% of speeding drivers involved in serious casualty crashes, were males aged 17 to 25 years. This group holds only 8% of licences.
| SPEED | FATAL | INJURY | TOTAL |
| 1996 | 221 | 4122 | 4343 |
| 1997 | 208 | 3994 | 4202 |
| 1998 | 233 | 4245 | 4478 |