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This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year. It shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
Three deaths occurred in Tasmania at Latrobe, Ouse and Evandale. [314] One death occurred at Cotter Dam in the ACT. Two deaths occurred in NSW, one near Bowral, the other in Leppington. [315] Vehicle attack: Melbourne, Victoria: 6: 2017 Jan 20: January 2017 Melbourne car attack: Sinking: Near 1770, Queensland: 6: 2017 Oct 16: Sinking of the FV ...
New Zealand reports a daily, monthly, quarterly and annual nationwide road toll, [1] plus special period figures for a number of holiday periods: [2] Christmas – New Year : between 4pm on 24 December (22 or 23 December if 24 December falls on a weekend) and 6am on 3 January (4 or 5 January if 1 and/or 2 January fall on a weekend or 2 January falls on a Friday).
Australian snakes possess potent venom; 10 of the world's top 10 most venomous snakes live in Australia. [ 2 ] The estimated incidence of snakebites annually in Australia is between 3 and 18 per 100,000 with an average mortality rate of 0.03 per 100,000 per year, [ 3 ] or roughly 1 to 2 persons, [ 4 ] down from 13 persons per year in the 1920s ...
The brown snake is not the most venomous Australian snake, but it has caused the most deaths. [1]Wildlife attacks in Australia occur every year from several different native species, [2] [3] including snakes, spiders, freshwater and saltwater crocodiles, various sharks, cassowaries, kangaroos, stingrays and stonefish and a variety of smaller marine creatures such as bluebottles, blue-ringed ...
1907–1908 Australian heat wave: 246 There were 105 deaths in South Australia alone (between 7 December 1907 and 8 February 1908). [12] 1909 Flood: 1909 Western Victorian floods: 4 1909–1910 Heat wave: 1909–1910 Australian heat wave: 109 1909 Dec – 1910 Feb [13] 1911 Cyclone: Sinking of the SS Yongala [14] 122 SS Yongala [14]
An Australian man who was feared dead after being captured by Russian forces is alive, foreign minister Penny Wong has announced.. Oscar Jenkins, 32, a teacher who signed up to fight for Ukraine ...
Frederick Charles Hall, a 48-year-old labourer shot his six children to death He was sentenced to death, [11] later commuted to life imprisonment. Murder of the Armanasco family 12 October 1950 Collie, Western Australia: 6 0 40-year-old Raymond Armanasco killed his wife and five of his children in Collie near Perth.