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released: 24 May 2007 author: Berry JG, Nearmy M & Harrison J media release

This report looks at the death and serious injury of Indigenous persons in Australia due to transport accidents in the five-year period 1999-00 to 2003-04. It focuses on the four jurisdictions of the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland and examines variables such as mode of transport, gender, age group and remoteness from an urban centre. DOTARS Report Number: 50250.

ISBN 978 1 74024 682 8; Cat. no. INJ 100; 71pp.; INTERNET ONLY

Publication

Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Executive summary
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Main findings
      • All transport injury
      • Land transport
    • 3 Injury of Indigenous people due to transport, 1999-00 to 2003-04
      • Rates of fatal injury by mode of transport
      • Rates of serious injury by mode of transport
    • 4 Indigenous land transport injury, 1999-00 to 2003-04
      • Age and sex distribution
      • Remoteness zones
      • Remoteness zones by injured person's vehicle and Indigenous status
      • Mechanism of injury
      • Time trends
      • State and territory differences
      • Other literature
  • End matter
    • Appendix: Data issues
      • Comparability with other ATSB reports
      • Deaths
      • Serious injury
      • Ascertainment of Indigenous status
      • Data quality
      • Assessment of mortality data completeness
      • Population and other denominators
      • Suppression of small cell counts in tables
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures

Recommended citation

Berry JG, Nearmy M & Harrison J 2007. Injury of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people due to transport, 1999-00 to 2003-04. Injury research and statistics series 34. Cat. no. INJ 100. Canberra: AIHW.