Datasets / Road crashes, Victoria / 2026-10-12

Road crashes, Victoria, version 2026-10-12

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Rows 202,297Fields 64Fetched 12 October 2026Source SHA-256 bfda8daf94db2a9e…

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Change from 2026-09-15

1543 rows added, 0 removed and 97 changed by the key accident_no. The full list is in diff/2026-09-15..2026-10-12.json.

Attribution the licence asks for

Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, Victoria Road Crash Data, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victoria-road-crash-data, accessed 12 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Provenance

Fetched from opendata.transport.vic.gov.au on 12 October 2026. The portal listed the licence as Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International at that moment. manifest.json has every detail.

Fatal accidentNon injury accidentOther injury accidentSerious injury accident

Crashes per year by severity, 2012 to 2025. 2026 is not drawn because the rows run to 28 February 2026. A count of rows in this version, worked out in the build.

Change from the version before

+1543 added · −0 removed · 97 changed

Against 2026-09-15, by the key accident_no. The full list is in diff/2026-09-15..2026-10-12.json.

Other versions: 2026-09-15.