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Driver demographics in road crashes, Queensland

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Publisher Department of Transport and Main RoadsUpdated about twice a yearLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-04-24As at 30 June 2025Rows 22,699Fields 16

Aggregate counts of reported Queensland road crashes from 1 January 2001 by the kinds of driver involved. Each row is one combination of year, police region, crash severity and seven yes or no driver flags, with the number of crashes and casualties. The publisher's Yes and No are typed as booleans.

Part of Crash data from Queensland roads, 6 tables the publisher releases together: Road crash locations, Queensland, Road casualties, Queensland, Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties, Queensland, Vehicle types in road crashes, Queensland, Factors in road crashes, Queensland.

Format
"Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.
https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.parquet
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What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

FieldTypePublisher's headerNote
crash_yearintegerCrash_Year
crash_police_regionstringCrash_Police_RegionQueensland Police Service region, or Unknown.
crash_severitystringCrash_SeverityFatal, Hospitalisation, Medical treatment, Minor injury or Property damage only.
involving_male_driverbooleanInvolving_Male_Driver
involving_female_driverbooleanInvolving_Female_Driver
involving_young_driver_16_24booleanInvolving_Young_Driver_16-24Driver aged 16 to 24.
involving_senior_driver_60plusbooleanInvolving_Senior_Driver_60plusDriver aged 60 or more.
involving_provisional_driverbooleanInvolving_Provisional_Driver
involving_overseas_licensed_driverbooleanInvolving_Overseas_Licensed_Driver
involving_unlicensed_driverbooleanInvolving_Unlicensed_Driver
count_crashesintegerCount_Crashes
count_casualty_fatalityintegerCount_Casualty_Fatality
count_casualty_hospitalisedintegerCount_Casualty_Hospitalised
count_casualty_medically_treatedintegerCount_Casualty_MedicallyTreated
count_casualty_minor_injuryintegerCount_Casualty_MinorInjury
count_casualty_allintegerCount_Casualty_All

schema.json has the same list as a Frictionless Table Schema. The key is crash_year, crash_police_region, crash_severity, involving_male_driver, involving_female_driver, involving_young_driver_16_24, involving_senior_driver_60plus, involving_provisional_driver, involving_overseas_licensed_driver, involving_unlicensed_driver.

A sample record

The first row of the latest version, as it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.json
{
  "crash_year": 2001,
  "crash_police_region": "Brisbane",
  "crash_severity": "Fatal",
  "involving_male_driver": false,
  "involving_female_driver": false,
  "involving_young_driver_16_24": false,
  "involving_senior_driver_60plus": false,
  "involving_provisional_driver": false,
  "involving_overseas_licensed_driver": false,
  "involving_unlicensed_driver": false,
  "count_crashes": 1,
  "count_casualty_fatality": 1,
  "count_casualty_hospitalised": 0,
  "count_casualty_medically_treated": 0,
  "count_casualty_minor_injury": 0,
  "count_casualty_all": 1
}

Smaller files

The same rows split by a field, one JSON file each. Each file carries the same provenance header.

By crash_year (25 files)

by/crash_year/index.json lists every file with its row count.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal. The "as at" date is the publisher's own.

  • 2026-04-24as at 30 June 2025
    22,699 rows16 fieldsutf-8-sig561e293b9dc3

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (87 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.csv so the change can be checked.

The publisher releases Crash data from Queensland roads as 6 files at once, so all 6 tables here share a version date.