--- title: Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/ publisher: Department of Transport and Main Roads licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-04-24 as_at: 2025-06-30 rows: 42787 fields: 8 source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/f3e0ca94-2d7b-44ee-abef-d6b06e9b0729/resource/177dc50c-0cf7-46ba-8a69-99695aeaa46a/download/_c_restraint_helmet_use.csv source_sha256: b017bdbd75dae6f6ed6ce333246747154275d3b0299a8b0f045a6b4c4c2bc00e language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties, Queensland Casualty counts by year, police region, severity, age group, gender, road user type and whether a restraint or helmet was used. 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. Also called: seatbelt statistics Queensland, motorcycle helmet crash data Queensland, restraint use in crashes. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/`: - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.parquet (64 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.json (11 MB) - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.csv (3.9 MB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.sqlite (7.2 MB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.ndjson (11 MB) Pinned version 2026-04-24: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Smaller files - by `crash_year`: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/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_PoliceRegion | Queensland Police Service region, or Unknown. | | `casualty_severity` | string | Casualty_Severity | Fatality, Hospitalised, Medically treated or Minor injury. | | `casualty_age_group` | string | Casualty_AgeGroup | Age band such as 17 to 24. | | `casualty_gender` | string | Casualty_Gender | Female, Male or Unknown. | | `casualty_road_user_type` | string | Casualty_Road_User_Type | Vehicle Occupant, Motorcyclist or Bicyclist. | | `casualty_restraint_helmet_use` | string | Casualty_Restraint_Helmet_Use | Restrained, Unrestrained, Helmet Worn, Helmet Not Worn, Not applicable, or the publisher's not determined values. | | `casualty_count` | integer | Casualty_Count | Number of casualties in this group. | Key: `crash_year, crash_police_region, casualty_severity, casualty_age_group, casualty_gender, casualty_road_user_type, casualty_restraint_helmet_use`. ## Versions - 2026-04-24 as at 30 June 2025: 42787 rows, 8 fields, sha256 b017bdbd75da. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/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/) - [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 and citation 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. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: 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. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/ Markdown: Data: [Crash data from Queensland roads](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/crash-data-from-queensland-roads), Department of Transport and Main Roads, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 24 September 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/data.csv today. The same path serves JSON, Parquet, SQLite, NDJSON. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### What years does Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties cover? The current version covers 2001 to 2025, as at 30 June 2025. Each release from Transport and Main Roads becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties updated? Transport and Main Roads releases it about twice a year. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Seatbelt and helmet use in road crash casualties? No. The publisher is Department of Transport and Main Roads, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/crash-data-from-queensland-roads. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one crash year? Every version has one JSON file per value of crash_year, 25 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/by/crash_year/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-road-crash-restraint-helmet-use/v/2026-04-24/by/crash_year/2006.json holds the 1,924 rows where crash_year is 2006. ### What is in casualty_restraint_helmet_use? The publisher's category for whether the person was wearing a seatbelt, a child restraint or a helmet, or was not, or it was not applicable or unknown. The values are kept exactly as published. ## 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`.