Road Accident Statistics

Statistics

RTA data showed that in 1998, young people of NSW represented represented 16 per cent of all licensed drivers and riders but accounted for 27 per cent of all road traffic casualties.

Research shows that young people are a vulnerable group of road users because of cognitive, attitudinal, behavioural, cultural and social factors. It is human rather than physical factors (i.e. vehicle control skills) that influence the road use behaviours and outcomes for young people.

Medical Costs

If a person is injured in a car accident and their injuries are bad enough, the person will be brought into the hospital taking up a hospital bed that may have to be used for other patients. Of course doctors will be needed to repair and broken bones, repair burns ect. This stops doctors from treating other people.

Industry Costs

In July 1989 NSE compulsory third party insurance scheme was brought in. Young claimants have accounted for almost a quarter of the total cost of claims to the scheme.

The costs involved in road accident means that exactly 1.6 percents of the Country’s Gross Domestic Product per annum is channeled into solving road accident situation.

Health Impacts

The impacts of a road accident can be nothing at all just a bump on the head to death. A car accident thats bad enough can kill and has killed many people. Road accidents can burn people for life, paralyse people for life and kill people. Not only are their pysical wounds from car accidents but there are also psychological wounds to. A road accident can be very traumatic and can cause a person to need to receive psychiatric help.

Risks

In a road accident, not only can you hurt yourself and others in your car, you can hurt other people in cars or motorbikes. When a road accident is bad enough, a person could lose their life, be scared for life or need psychiatric evaluation.

Outcomes

Road accidents can tare families apart with the lose of family members. A persons injuries could be server enough that they cant work or do anything ever again. Children and wifes will have to deal with the lose of their fathers and husbands which can be devastating for families.

Plans

Road accidents will never be totally stopable, but with the help of deduced speed limits, increasing the minimum age to drive and increasing the safety of cars can all help in preventing road accidents.