This study has analysed trends in motorcycle casualty crashes in Victoria for the period 1984-1993 in two stages. Stage 1 examined the trends in Police-reported motorcycle crashes resulting in death or injury in Victoria during 1984-1993. It was found that the trend in motorcycle casualty crashes was different from that for all reported casualty crashes in Victoria since 1989, with the proportion of motorcycle crashes generally increasing since that year. Stage 2 compared the Victorian trends found in Stage 1 with trends in motorcyclist casualties and casualty crashes obtained from other data sources and jurisdictions. This included a comparison of Victorian motorcyclist fatalities with those in Australia as a whole; a comparison of motorcycle casualty crash trends found in Stage 1 for Victoria with trends in Police-reported casualty crashes in New South Wales during 1984-93; an analysis of the trends in numbers of motorcyclists recorded as admitted to public hospitals in Victoria during the financial years 1987/88 to 1992/93 and a comparison of the numbers of and trends in seriously injured motorcyclists on Police reports with those admitted to Victorian public hospitals during the years 1987/88 to 1992/93. The two stages of this study are bound together in this publication. (A)
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