Road crashes involving bike riders in Victoria, 2002–2012: an Amy Gillett Foundation report By Megan Garratt, Marilyn Johnson and Jacinta Cubis July 2015 Road crashes involving bike riders in Victoria 2002–2012 Report Documentation Page Title: Road crashes involving bike riders in Victoria, 2002–2012 Authors: Megan Garratt, Marilyn Johnson and Jacinta Cubis Date: July 2015 ISBN number: 978-0-646-94080-9 Report status: Final, Corrected version, September 2015 Sponsoring Organisation(s): This project was funded by a Community Road Safety Grant received from the Transport Accident Commission (TAC). The study was conducted and this final report was written by the named authors for the Amy Gillett Foundation. Revisions were made by staff at the TAC and have been incorporated into this document. This report is published with approval from the TAC. Keywords: bike rider crashes, fatality, serious injury, Victoria www.amygillett.org.au ABN: 46 200 981 503 / ACN: 118 522 375 Suite G.02, 616 St Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004 P: 03 9533 3180 E: [email protected] ii Road crashes involving bike riders in Victoria 2002–2012 Contents 1 Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Summary of police-reported bike rider crashes ................................................................................ 2 2 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 4 2.1 Background and context .................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Cycling participation in Victoria ......................................................................................................... 4 2.3 Literature review of Victorian bicycle rider crashes .......................................................................... 5 3 Study Design ..................................................................................................................................... 8 3.1 Definitions ......................................................................................................................................... 8 3.2 Limitations ....................................................................................................................................... 10 3.3 Hospital data .................................................................................................................................... 11 4 Results ............................................................................................................................................ 14 4.1 Overview of police-reported crashes .............................................................................................. 14 4.2 Analysis of police reported bike rider crashes (2002–2012) ............................................................ 15 4.3 Area analysis of bike rider crashes (2002–2012) .............................................................................. 33 5 Discussion ................................................................................................................................... 44 5.1 Overview of bike rider crashes ........................................................................................................ 44 5.2 Overview of bike rider crashes – police-reported ........................................................................... 46 5.3 Safe System approach – Safe People ............................................................................................... 48 5.4 Safe System approach – Speed Limits .............................................................................................. 49 5.5 Safe System approach – Safe Roads and Roadsides ........................................................................ 50 5.6 Safe System approach – Safe Vehicles ............................................................................................. 52 5.7 Electric bikes – the next generation ................................................................................................ 53 6 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 54 7 Appendix ..................................................................................................................................... 55 8 References .................................................................................................................................. 57 iii Road crashes involving bike riders in Victoria 2002–2012 List of figures Figure 1 Map of metropolitan Melbourne Local Government Areas (LGAs) ..................................................... 9 Figure 2 Map of Victorian (non-metro) Local Government Areas (LGAs) .......................................................... 9 Figure 3 All police and hospital (in-traffic) reported bike rider crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ...................... 12 Figure 4 Percentage of all bike rider crashes as a proportion of all road crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ....... 13 Figure 5 All bike rider crashes (fatalities, serious injuries and other injuries) in Victoria: total number of reported events and percentage of total road toll, 1987-2012 ........................................................................ 14 Figure 6 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by injury outcome, 1987-2012 ....................................................... 14 Figure 7 All bike rider crashes (fatalities, serious injuries and other injuries) in Victoria: total number of reported events and percentage of total road toll, 2002-2012 ........................................................................ 15 Figure 8 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ............................................................................. 15 Figure 9 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ............................................................... 15 Figure 10 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ................................................................ 15 Figure 11 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by gender, 2002–2012 .................................................................. 16 Figure 12 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by gender, 2002-2012 .......................................................... 16 Figure 13 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by gender, 2002-2012 ............................................ 16 Figure 14 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by gender, 2002-2012............................................... 16 Figure 15 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by age, 2002-2012 ........................................................................ 17 Figure 16 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by age, 2002-2012 ................................................................ 17 Figure 17 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by age, 2002-2012 ................................................. 17 Figure 18 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by age, 2002-2012 .................................................... 17 Figure 19 Helmet wearing and non-helmet wearing by all bike riders for all injury outcome crashes in Victoria, 2002-2012 ........................................................................................................................................... 18 Figure 20 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by helmet wearing/non-wearing, 2002-2012 ...................... 18 Figure 21 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by helmet wearing/non-wearing, 2002-2012 ........ 18 Figure 22 All other injury bike ride crashes in Victoria by helmet wearing/non-wearing, 2002-2012 ............ 18 Figure 23 All police-reported bike rider crashes in Victoria by time of day, 2002–2012 ................................. 19 Figure 24 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by time of day, 2002-2012 ................................................... 19 Figure 25 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by time of day, 2002-2012 ..................................... 19 Figure 26 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by time of day, 2002-2012 ........................................ 19 Figure 27 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by light conditions, 2002-2012 ...................................................... 20 Figure 28 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by light condition, 2002-2012 .............................................. 20 Figure 29 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by light condition, 2002-2012 ................................ 20 Figure 30 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by light condition, 2002-2012 ................................... 20 Figure 31 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by day of week, 2002-2012 .......................................................... 21 Figure 32 All fatal bike rider crashes in Victoria by day of week, 2002-2012 .................................................. 21 Figure 33 All serious injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by day of week, 2002-2012 .................................... 21 Figure 34 All other injury bike rider crashes in Victoria by day of week, 2002-2012 ...................................... 21 Figure 35 All bike rider crashes in Victoria by month