Animal collisions

[Biggles]

From today's Courier Mail:

New NRMA Insurance claims data showed there were 17,200 car crashes with animals throughout 2021 and 2022.

Dubbo, in NSW, was found to be the country's worst location with 165 animal collisions, followed by Canberra in the ACT with 111.

In Queensland, St George was the worst location (17). Mt Gambier was the worst spot in South Australia (13) and, in Western Australia, the highest animal collisions were recorded in Margaret River (26).

Kangaroos accounted for close to 90 per cent of the animal-vehicle collisions in Australia.

The iconic Aussie creature was involved in 14,501 (88 per cent) of the collisions, followed by wallabies (777 claims), wombats (631) and deer (317).

Of the animal collisions in that period, about 10 per cent of cars were write offs.

[Biggles]

I was expecting someone to point out that Victorians and Taswegians have been known to encounter wildlife on their roads...

[Rusjel]

I was thinking that all those places seemed about right to me, with the exception of Margeret River in WA. The Tom Price -Parabadoo road has a lot more Roos on it, but maybe the traffic density in Margeret River means more crashes?

[cougar]

Margaret river being a tourist hot-spot out of town probably skews their figures upward a little....assume a lot of folk fly into Perth then drive Sth who may never usually drive much on roads that aren't metro