Rail archive - Tram incident statistics

Annual statistics

• 2018 tram incident statistics DOCX, 557.4 KB
• 2017 tram incident statistics DOCX, 445.4 KB

Responsibility for rail safety regulation in Victoria was transferred from Transport Safety Victoria (TSV) to the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) on 2 December 2019.

Research

In 2017, Transport Safety Victoria (TSV) engaged Monash University’s Accident Research Centre to undertake an analysis of transport-related injuries for the years 2005-15.

The Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit looked at the nature, incidence and mechanism of certain transport-related injuries to patients presenting to Victorian hospitals.

Some key points from the analysis of hospital data on tram-related injuries are:

• 60.3% of those admitted to hospital were female
• 74.1% of those admitted were aged 60 years and over
• Tram related injury rates increased at a rate of around 6.1% each year of the study.

The report is available to download as a PDF of accessible Word document:

• Hospitalisation data analysis - Tram - 2005-15 PDF, 976.2 KB
• Hospitalisation data analysis - Tram - 2005-15 DOCX, 144.7 KB