If you feel like you’ve been hearing more about horror road crashes this year, the data confirms it. The Australian Automobile Association says the year to November has been the deadliest 12 months since 2018, with 1,253 people killed on the roads. The states leading the increases are NSW, Victoria, and South Australia (which recorded a 61% jump in deaths, from 70 road deaths in 2022 to 113). NSW had a 24% increase to 354 deaths – a number which includes the 10 people killed in the Hunter Valley wedding bus tragedy earlier this year. The Association is calling on governments for greater transparency with its road data, saying that they’d like to see “crucial data on the quality of Australian roads, the causes of crashes, and law enforcement patterns” out in the open.