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Nearly 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year globally, on average 3,700 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44. Road traffic injuries are the world’s leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years at 48%.
In 2019, 1,189 people were killed in road crashes in Australia. 238 of these were aged 17 – 25 (20%). In NSW in 2019 young drivers and riders aged 17 to 25 years were involved in 4,086 road traffic casualty crashes, whilst there were also 61 young adults aged 17 to 25 year olds killed and a further 2,074 injured from crashes in that year.
#2019 data are preliminary and subject to change
As a Level 1 Trauma Centre, Westmead Hospital admitted 2,924 trauma patients in 2019. There were 722 patients involved in road related incidents of which 169 were aged 25 or less. Of these 133 were male, 36 female with 3 fatalities. Westmead’s Trauma Service has a moral and professional obligation to do everything possible to reduce this number. bstreetsmart was developed to reduce and/or prevent the number of young lives affected by road related incidents. Our youth have the capacity and ability to change their behaviours that put them at risk. Death and serious injury are still occurring despite the education being received in the schools. bstreetsmart approaches this problem in a multimodal, innovative & interactive format.