WA has one of the worst road fatality rates in Australia. The map below shows every fatal road crash in WA over a five-year period and where it happened.
Every dot on the map below marks a fatal crash in WA from 2019 to 2023.
In those five years, a total of 758 fatal crashes resulted in someone not making it home that day.
By zooming in on the map you can see crash locations at street level. Hovering over the map will also give you the population for that region, showing the number of fatal crashes compared to population in different areas.
Many factors contribute to a crash, and speed remains one of the prevailing factors of fatal crashes in metropolitan and regional WA. In 2023, 69 people died on metropolitan roads, while 89 lost their lives on regional roads.
Please note that this map only represents the number of fatal crashes - it does not include the number of people who lost their lives in each of those crashes.
