Tuesday 28th of May, 2024
RACHEL PAYNE — To ask the Minister for Corrections (for the Minister for Police):
In relation to road fatalities:
(1) For each of the five most recent calendar years —
(a) how many fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred in Victoria;
(b) how many fatal motor vehicle accidents occurred by a Police Service Area;
(c) what were the ‘associated factors’, such as speed, fatigue, road condition, alcohol, legal drugs and illegal drugs, associated with the fatal motor vehicle accidents in paragraph (a);
(d) how many ‘at fault’ drivers died in a motor vehicle accident;
(e) how many ‘at fault’ drivers and ‘at fault’ riders that died as a result of a fatal motor vehicle accident had toxicology results post-mortem that identified the presence of —
(i) any alcohol, with or without any identified legal or proscribed illegal drug;
(ii) alcohol alone, without any identified legal or proscribed illegal drug;
(iii) any benzodiazepine, with or without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any opioid;
(iv) benzodiazepines alone, without alcohol any proscribed illegal drug, or any opioid;
(v) any opioid, with or without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any benzodiazepine;
(vi) opioids alone, without alcohol, any proscribed illegal drug, or any benzodiazepine;
(vii) any cannabis, with or without alcohol or any identified legal drug or any other proscribed illegal drug;
(viii) cannabis alone, without alcohol or any identified legal drug or any other proscribed illegal drug;
(ix) any methamphetamine;
(x) methamphetamine alone;
(xi) any ecstasy;
(xii) ecstasy alone; and
(xiii) any cocaine.
(2) For each of the identified legal drugs and proscribed illegal drugs, what is the cut-off drug concentration that is used to define the presence of the drug in a sample of blood.
(3) For each of the ‘at fault’ drivers and riders who died as a result of a motor vehicle accident identified in paragraphs (1)(e)(vii) to (viii), what were the actual measured tetrahydrocannabinol concentrations, shown in table format.
Answer provided 23 July 2024
Hon Anthony Carbines MP
Minister for Police, Minister for Crime Prevention, Minister for Racing:
The Transport Accident Commission reports lives lost data on their website.
Data in relation to the specifics of each fatality cannot be provided, however the Victorian Road Crash database contains data consolidated from Victoria Police reports and hospital injury information.
