07 · Where
The pattern holds across the country.
In 2024, more men died by suicide than on the roads in every state and in the ACT, usually by two to three times. The Northern Territory is the exception: the two were level.
SuicideTransport crashes
NSW
252
724
252
QLD
221
611
221
VIC
209
563
209
WA
149
337
149
SA
63
175
63
TAS
21
60
21
NT
41
41
41
ACT
8
27
8
Suicide by state of usual residence (ABS, preliminary revised 2024). Road deaths by state of crash (BITRE police data), so this is indicative, not exact like-for-like. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2026); Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (2026).