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title: Factors in road crashes, Queensland
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# Factors in road crashes, Queensland

Crash and casualty counts by year, police region and severity, split by whether drink driving, speed, driver fatigue or a defective vehicle 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-factors/v/2026-04-24/`:

- parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/latest/data.parquet (37 KB)
- json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/latest/data.json (2.0 MB)
- csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/latest/data.csv (391 KB)
- sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/latest/data.sqlite (512 KB)
- ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/latest/data.ndjson (2.0 MB)

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

## Smaller files

- by `crash_year`: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/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_drink_driving` | boolean | Involving_Drink_Driving |  |
| `involving_driver_speed` | boolean | Involving_Driver_Speed |  |
| `involving_fatigued_driver` | boolean | Involving_Fatigued_Driver |  |
| `involving_defective_vehicle` | boolean | Involving_Defective_Vehicle |  |
| `count_crashes` | integer | Count_Crashes |  |
| `count_fatality` | integer | Count_Fatality |  |
| `count_hospitalised` | integer | Count_Hospitalised |  |
| `count_medically_treated` | integer | Count_Medically_Treated |  |
| `count_minor_injury` | integer | Count_Minor_Injury |  |
| `count_all_casualties` | integer | Count_All_Casualties |  |

Key: `crash_year, crash_police_region, crash_severity, involving_drink_driving, involving_driver_speed, involving_fatigued_driver, involving_defective_vehicle`.

## Versions

- 2026-04-24 as at 30 June 2025: 5523 rows, 13 fields, sha256 35813538985c. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/v/2026-04-24/

Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-factors/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/)
- [Driver demographics in road crashes, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-driver-demographics/)
- [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/)

## 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`.