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Safety Performance Indicators

Safety performance indicators help us understand the road safety landscape in South Australia. We use them to track against the outcomes of South Australia’s Road Safety Strategy to 2031. They are provided in our annual reports.

What they measure

Primary outcome measure

  • Number of lives lost in road crashes
  • Number of serious injuries in road crashes

Safe road use

  • Share of vehicles detected at or below the speed limit
  • Share of lives lost of drink drivers and riders
  • Share of lives lost of drug drivers and riders
  • Share of lives lost of unrestrained vehicle occupants
  • Number of drivers and riders detected using a mobile phone while driving

Safe roads

  • Number of lives lost and serious injuries of vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists)
  • Number of lives lost and serious injuries per 100 million vehicle kilometres travelled
  • Number of lives lost and serious injuries of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • Share of high-pedestrian CBD and town centre areas under Movement and Place or equivalent approaches with posted speed limits of less than 40 km/h
  • Share of roads in urban areas with a posted speed limit of 50 km/h or more with separated cycle ways, and in urban areas outside of Australian Bureau of Statistics’s remoteness category: ‘major cities’
  • Share of roads with a separated cycle path
  • Share of travel on all national highways and on the high-speed network (≥ 80 km/h) covering 80% of travel recognised as 3 stars (or equivalent risk rating) or better
  • Share of the regional road network that had an improvement in star rating in the past 12 months
  • Share of local councils with a fit-for-purpose road safety risk assessment as an investment plan for its infrastructure
  • Share of lives lost on local government-controlled roads
  • Share of roads with safety defects
  • Number of casualty crashes per million vehicles at intersections
  • Share of signalised intersections with a speed limit of less than 70 km/h
  • Share of road length on designated motorcycle routes with motorcycle-friendly crash barriers
  • Share of lives lost while travelling for a work-related purpose

Safe vehicles

  • Average age of the South Australian vehicle fleet
  • Share of new heavy vehicles sold or registered with electronic stability control, advanced emergency braking and lane-keep assist technologies
  • Share of light vehicle fleet that has a 5-star rating ANCAP within a 6-year date stamp
  • Share of motorcycles with emergency brake assist systems or rider assist systems