Serious road injuries

Victoria State

Serious injuries involving vehicle crashes in Victoria during high alcohol hours.

Analysis by Turning Point
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Last update: 30 September 2021

Metro/Regional

Serious injuries involving vehicle crashes in Victoria during high alcohol hours.

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Last update: 30 September 2021

Local Government Areas (LGA)

Serious injuries involving vehicle crashes in Victoria during high alcohol hours.

Analysis by Turning Point
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Last update: 30 September 2021

Definitions

Alcohol Hours

Alcohol involvement is not directly measured for some datasets, therefore an alternative surrogate measure of applying alcohol hours is used. There are two different sets of hours used, one for serious road injuries, and the other for assaults.

Serious Road Injury:

Metro areasHigh alcohol hours (HAH)Sunday 6pm – Monday 6am
Monday 8pm – Tuesday 6am
Tuesday 6pm – Wednesday 4am
Wednesday 6pm – Thursday 6am
Thursday 6pm – Friday 6am
Friday or Saturday 4pm – 8am
Regional areasHigh alcohol hours (HAH)Sunday 6pm – Monday 6am
Monday 8pm – Tuesday 4am
Tuesday 6pm – Wednesday 4am
Wednesday 6pm – Thursday 4am
Thursday 6pm – Friday 6am
Friday 6pm – Saturday 8am
Saturday 4pm – Sunday 10am

Methods

Scope

AODstats provides the ability to track trends of acute harms at the community level, and help inform policy and strategies to intervene and minimise the impact or spread of these harms.

This information provides a convenient, interactive, statistical resource for policy planners, drug service providers, health professionals and other key stakeholders, interested in the harms relating to alcohol and other drug use in Victoria.

Data Analysis

For further information on the analysis, please see the methods document (the document opens in a new tab).

  • Data indicator: Serious Road Injury
  • Data Source: VicRoads CrashStats
  • Details of data analysis: Unit level, road crash data from VicRoads is used. Alcohol involvement is not directly measured in most road accidents, apart from fatal crashes. Therefore, a surrogate measure is used and this involves using alcohol hours. Alcohol hours were applied to serious road injury data, using time stamps, to determine alcohol harms. Data is based on location of road crash event.

Metrics presented

  • Numbers: cell sizes less than 5 are obfuscated in line with ethics and data custodian requirements. Some other categorical data may also be obfuscated if a category can be calculated by subtracting any remaining categories from the total.
  • Rates: rates are crude rates, which can allow for adjustment of population sizes across different areas, however these do not adjust for certain demographic attributes (specifically age and sex). The advantage to using crude rates is particularly important from a policy perspective, to understand what is influencing the rates. For example, it is important for policy and services to be aware if an area has more men and younger people.
  • Population estimates: ABS estimated resident population (ERP) on age, sex and statistical local areas is used throughout AODstats based on calendar year of data. For financial year datasets, the earliest year is used (e.g. 2012/13, 2012 ERP is used).

Limitations

There are limitations to using administrative data for purposes other than what it was originally intended when collected. This includes:

  • Incomplete or missing data and inadequate coding.
  • Location information is dependent upon dataset and the majority of times LGA is the smallest area provided, and sometimes only state based data is available.
  • Crude rates are used, which do not allow for certain demographic attributes (age and gender) to be compared accurately across areas, and also rates based on small numbers can produce unstable results.

Terms & Conditions

Disclaimer:

The information on this website is for non-commercial use only, including educational, scholarly, research, and personal projects that will not be marketed, promoted or sold in a financial transaction. We provide the data in good faith and attempt to make the information as current and accurate as possible. You may use the data from AODstats provided that you do so for a purpose that is reasonably related to the purpose for which AODstats has been provided to you. If you use these data you are required to acknowledge that the source of the information is AODstats, which is owned by Turning Point, Eastern Health.

Limitations:

The availability of some primary data may vary over time, and there may be a time lag in gaining access to data for analysis and mapping. For some map areas, the data is not available due to the need to maintain confidentiality (through suppression of values less than 5, as agreed with data custodians). Data collection can vary between jurisdictions and therefore we advise caution in comparisons between jurisdictions. Where data is available, jurisdictional statistics have been provided, however, we are unable to provide national statistics at this time.