According to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE), Australia has seen over 190,000 fatalities since accurate car record keeping commenced in 1925. Every year since 1970 has seen a decrease in the road death toll with numbers dropping from 3,798 in 1970 to 1,145 in 2018. This decrease can largely be attributed to stricter road safety laws, measures put in place by transit authorities and safer vehicle standards.
Considering the facts that Victoria is the most densely-populated Australian state This visualization explores the fatal car accidents in Victoria with respect to the location, age, sex and time of the day.
- People over the age of 60 years have a highest risk(29%)
- Yarra ranges is the area with highest fatal accidents recorded(40 lost lives).
- Most of the accidents occurred between 3 pm and 5 pm.
- 72% of the fatal victims are males.
This graph shows the variety of attributes of the people who were victim or involved in fatal accidents. From the donut chart it is clear that the majority of victims were people over 40-year-old with more than 55 percentage of the total share.Move the slider in order to see the distribution from different years.
Age of the victims
People who were involved
This map shows geographical areas that are coloured in order to show variation of fatal accidents in Victoria.
- Move the slider in order to see the trend from different years.
- Click the area that you want to zoom in(Click the same area to zoom out)
- Hover the area to see more information
- Yarra ranges(40)
- Mornington Peninsula(37)
- Greater Geelong(37)
- Greater Shepparton(36)
- Cardina(36)
This graph shows the distribution of the accidents during the day. We can see from the graph that most of the accidents are in the centre of the distribution. That means that Most of the accidents occurred between 3 pm and 5 pm. Move the slider in order to see the trend from different years.
Move the slider to see the trend over the years
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