1362.6 - Regional Statistics, Tasmania, 2007

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In 2003, some 20 (48.8%) of Tasmania's road accident fatalities were drivers and 11 (26.8%) were motor cyclists. Of the 20 driver fatalities, 7 (35.0%) occurred in both the Greater Hobart-Southern Region and the Mersey-Lyell Region, and 6 (30.0%) in the Northern Region.

Of the 1,837 road-users injured in 2003, some 930 (50.6%) were drivers and 492 (26.8%) were passengers. Of the total number of injuries in 2003, some 882 (48.0%) occurred in the Greater Hobart-Southern Region.

ROAD-USER FATALITIES AND INJURIES, Tasmanian regions(a) - 2003

User type	Greater Hobart-Southern	Northern	Mersey-Lyell	Tasmania

FATALITIES

Driver	7	6	7	20
Passenger	3	1	3	7
Pedestrian	-	1	2	3
Motor cyclist	5	2	4	11
Bicyclist	-	-	-	-
Total	15	10	16	41

INJURIES

Driver	436	284	210	930
Passenger	259	116	117	492
Pedestrian	73	30	28	131
Motor cyclist	75	62	67	204
Bicyclist	27	16	16	59
Unknown	12	7	2	21
Total	882	515	440	1,837

- nil or rounded to zero
(a) Location of accident.

Source: Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources, Land Transport Safety Division. (Drawn from Traffic Accident Database on 17 March, 2004.)

This section contains the following subsection :
Greater Hobart-Southern Region
Northern Region
Mersey-Lyell Region