National-Digital/vic-road-crashes

Road crashes, Victoria

Every crash reported to Victoria Police since 2012 in which someone was killed or injured, one row per crash, with its coordinates, road, lighting, speed zone and counts of people and vehicles.

This is a copy of the 2026-10-12 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 202,297 rows and 64 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-road-crashes/v/2026-10-12/ in 8 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Transport and Planning under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, Victoria Road Crash Data, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victoria-road-crash-data, accessed 12 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, Victoria Road Crash Data, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victoria-road-crash-data, accessed 12 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-road-crashes/v/2026-10-12/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-road-crashes/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/vic-road-crashes", revision="v2026-10-12") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-road-crashes/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
accident_no	string	The publisher's identifier for the crash.
accident_date	date	ACCIDENT_DATE
accident_time	string	24-hour time.
accident_type	string	ACCIDENT_TYPE
day_of_week	string	DAY_OF_WEEK
dca_code	string	DCA (Definitions for Classifying Accidents) code. Kept as text.
dca_code_description	string	DCA_CODE_DESCRIPTION
light_condition	string	LIGHT_CONDITION
police_attend	string	Yes, No or Not known.
road_geometry	string	ROAD_GEOMETRY
severity	string	Fatal accident, Serious injury accident, Other injury accident or Non injury accident.
speed_zone	string	A band such as 60 km/hr. Kept as text because the publisher uses bands.
run_offroad	string	RUN_OFFROAD
road_name	string	ROAD_NAME
road_type	string	ROAD_TYPE
road_route_1	string	Kept as text.
lga_name	string	LGA_NAME
dtp_region	string	DTP_REGION
latitude	number	Decimal degrees. Blank for 85 crashes in the September 2026 release.
longitude	number	Decimal degrees.
vicgrid_x	number	VICGRID_X
vicgrid_y	number	VICGRID_Y
total_persons	integer	TOTAL_PERSONS
inj_or_fatal	integer	INJ_OR_FATAL
fatality	integer	FATALITY
seriousinjury	integer	SERIOUSINJURY
otherinjury	integer	OTHERINJURY
noninjured	integer	NONINJURED
males	integer	MALES
females	integer	FEMALES
bicyclist	integer	BICYCLIST
passenger	integer	PASSENGER
driver	integer	DRIVER
pedestrian	integer	PEDESTRIAN
pillion	integer	PILLION
motorcyclist	integer	MOTORCYCLIST
unknown	integer	UNKNOWN
ped_cyclist_5_12	integer	PED_CYCLIST_5_12
ped_cyclist_13_18	integer	PED_CYCLIST_13_18
old_ped_65_and_over	integer	OLD_PED_65_AND_OVER
old_driver_75_and_over	integer	OLD_DRIVER_75_AND_OVER
young_driver_18_25	integer	YOUNG_DRIVER_18_25
no_of_vehicles	integer	NO_OF_VEHICLES
heavyvehicle	integer	HEAVYVEHICLE
passengervehicle	integer	PASSENGERVEHICLE
motorcycle	integer	MOTORCYCLE
pt_vehicle	integer	PT_VEHICLE
deg_urban_name	string	DEG_URBAN_NAME
srns	string	SRNS
rma	string	Road Management Act class, such as Freeway, Arterial Highway or Local Road.
divided	string	DIVIDED
stat_div_name	string	STAT_DIV_NAME
sa2_2021_code	string	Code of the Statistical Area Level 2 (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-sa2-2021, not published by the publisher.
sa2_2021_name	string	Name of the Statistical Area Level 2 (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-sa2-2021, not published by the publisher.
lga_2025_code	string	Code of the Local Government Area (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-lga-2025, not published by the publisher.
lga_2025_name	string	Name of the Local Government Area (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-lga-2025, not published by the publisher.
sal_2021_code	string	Code of the Suburb and Locality (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-suburbs-localities-2021, not published by the publisher.
sal_2021_name	string	Name of the Suburb and Locality (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-suburbs-localities-2021, not published by the publisher.
poa_2021_code	string	Code of the Postal Area (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-postal-areas-2021, not published by the publisher.
poa_2021_name	string	Name of the Postal Area (2021) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-postal-areas-2021, not published by the publisher.
sed_2025_code	string	Code of the State Electoral Division (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-state-electoral-divisions-2025, not published by the publisher.
sed_2025_name	string	Name of the State Electoral Division (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-state-electoral-divisions-2025, not published by the publisher.
ced_2025_code	string	Code of the Commonwealth Electoral Division (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-federal-electoral-divisions-2025, not published by the publisher.
ced_2025_name	string	Name of the Commonwealth Electoral Division (2025) the point falls in. Joined by location from abs-federal-electoral-divisions-2025, not published by the publisher.

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.