Road Safety

Road safety agencies require accurate, reliable and valid, timely road crash information to support the development and evaluation of initiatives underpinning the current WA Road Safety Strategy.

Information about crashes, vehicles, drivers, roads, injuries and payments are all collected by different agencies.   In recognition of the need to assemble all the available information for analysis, the WA Road Safety Council has funded a 3 year project to link and analyse information from WA Health, Main Roads WA and the Insurance Commission of WA.

The objective of this project is to create and maintain data linkages to connect motor vehicle crash reports, third party insurance claims and drivers' licence and infringement records for WA to the core health-related datasets which are part of the WA Data Linkage System (WADLS).

These road safety linkages are managed separately from the core WADLS Linkage Keys and are available for use in a variety of road safety related research projects.  A crash and injury analysis project is also being undertaken through the Public Health Division.  This project has been cleared by an ethics committee but is classed as a quality assurance/ monitoring project.  Other research or analysis projects will need to be approved by an institutional or Department of Health HREC.

 For more information about Road Safety linkages please contact Ann-Marie Chapman on +61 8 9222 2268 or at
ann-marie.chapman@health.wa.gov.au