South Australia’s Road Safety Action Plan 2023–2025 (Action Plan) has been developed to help us reduce lives lost and serious injuries on South Australian roads. Over the past decade South Australia has achieved improvements in road safety outcomes:

• In 2021, there were 99 lives lost and 827 serious injuries compared to an annual average of 112 lives lost and 1,125 serious injuries between 2008 and 2010.

• In 2021, 44 people lost their lives or were seriously injured while not wearing a seatbelt, compared to an annual average of 77 people who lost their lives or were seriously injured while not wearing a seatbelt between 2008 and 2010.

• In 2021, 15 drivers and riders lost their lives with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) above the legal limit, a decline from an annual average of 22 lives lost between 2008 and 2010.

The Action Plan looks to further these reductions by responding to emerging trends in road crash data and developments in research and technology which support new solutions. It builds on and furthers the priorities identified through development of South Australia’s Road Safety Strategy to 2031, which were shaped by consultation with the community and is in line with the National Road Safety Action Plan 2023-25.

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