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title: Driver demographics in road crashes, Queensland
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# Driver demographics in road crashes, Queensland

Crash and casualty counts by year, police region and severity, split by whether a male, female, young, senior, provisional, overseas licensed or unlicensed driver was involved.

Published by Department of Transport and Main Roads under CC BY 4.0 and republished here without change to the content. Department of Transport and Main Roads has not endorsed this site.

## Download

Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/v/2026-04-24/`:

- parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.parquet (91 KB)
- json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.json (12 MB)
- csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.csv (2.0 MB)
- sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.sqlite (2.2 MB)
- ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/latest/data.ndjson (12 MB)

Pinned version 2026-04-24: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/v/2026-04-24/data.<format>`. Dated versions never change.

## Smaller files

- by `crash_year`: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/v/2026-04-24/by/crash_year/index.json lists 25 files

## Fields

| field | type | publisher's header | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `crash_year` | integer | Crash_Year |  |
| `crash_police_region` | string | Crash_Police_Region | Queensland Police Service region, or Unknown. |
| `crash_severity` | string | Crash_Severity | Fatal, Hospitalisation, Medical treatment, Minor injury or Property damage only. |
| `involving_male_driver` | boolean | Involving_Male_Driver |  |
| `involving_female_driver` | boolean | Involving_Female_Driver |  |
| `involving_young_driver_16_24` | boolean | Involving_Young_Driver_16-24 | Driver aged 16 to 24. |
| `involving_senior_driver_60plus` | boolean | Involving_Senior_Driver_60plus | Driver aged 60 or more. |
| `involving_provisional_driver` | boolean | Involving_Provisional_Driver |  |
| `involving_overseas_licensed_driver` | boolean | Involving_Overseas_Licensed_Driver |  |
| `involving_unlicensed_driver` | boolean | Involving_Unlicensed_Driver |  |
| `count_crashes` | integer | Count_Crashes |  |
| `count_casualty_fatality` | integer | Count_Casualty_Fatality |  |
| `count_casualty_hospitalised` | integer | Count_Casualty_Hospitalised |  |
| `count_casualty_medically_treated` | integer | Count_Casualty_MedicallyTreated |  |
| `count_casualty_minor_injury` | integer | Count_Casualty_MinorInjury |  |
| `count_casualty_all` | integer | Count_Casualty_All |  |

Key: `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`.

## Versions

- 2026-04-24 as at 30 June 2025: 22699 rows, 16 fields, sha256 561e293b9dc3. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/v/2026-04-24/

Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/history.tar.zst

## Part of Crash data from Queensland roads

- [Road crash locations, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-locations/)
- [Road casualties, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-casualties/)
- [Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/)
- [Vehicle types in road crashes, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-vehicle-types/)
- [Factors in road crashes, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/)

## Attribution

Department of Transport and Main Roads, Queensland Government, Crash data from Queensland roads, sourced 24 September 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/crash-data-from-queensland-roads, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

## What this site did to the data

Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`.