2025 A Fifth Consecutive Increase in road deaths
Australia will see over 1330 lives lost in 2025. State and Federal politicians have lost control of road safety and are failing to keep road users safe.
Over thirteen hundred and thirty lives will be lost on Australian roads this year, the fifth consecutive annual increase.
Double demerit states, with the harshest sanctions, account for the majority of this years increase. New South Wales with a 9% increase, followed by Queensland with 3% and Western Australia at 1%.
The national fatality rate, the number of people dying per 100,000 population has increased to 4.9-deaths, compared to 2.5 in safer countries. Alarmingly Tasmania with 7.6, Western Australia 6.6 and Queensland 5.5 are the most dangerous places to drive.
We need to revert to 2010 to see so many unnecessary lives lost. Transport ministers are still forecasting a 50% reduction in road deaths by 2030. This will be impossible to achieve as road safety strategies are not working.
Its apparent that dated sanctions are not containing deteriorating driver behaviour. Police Commissioners continue to report worsening behaviour, yet transport ministers have failed to introduce more effective sanctions or road rules to address this.
December can see up to 120-lives lost, already over 80-people have died. With school holidays and the big summer break its important that drivers are extra cautious on unfamiliar roads.
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Forecast 2025 - 1332 lives lost, Actual to 24.12.2025 - 1288 lives lost.