Cyclist Accidents Dataset

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Response from
Accident Compensation Corporation

Status Dataset submitted

Comments Kia ora Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-032158 Thank you for your email of 02 May 2024, asking for the following information under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act): • As NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS) still doesn't capture most of the accidents records. An updated accidents dataset for the last 5 years (05/2019 - 05/2024) including Date, Time, Latitude, Longitude, Street/Road Name, Meshblock, Injury Severity Number of injured, On/Off Road, Number of other Vehicles involved, Type of other involved (pedestrian, e-scooter, bicycle, motorbike, car, van, truck, bus, other) would be very useful for analyzing patterns of accidents. The requested information is attached, here: https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/gov-032158-data-for-cyclist-accidents Please find in the attached appendix, the relevant claims information by calendar year, between 1 January 2019 and 7 May 2024. Table 1 is the number of new road claims, broken down by vehicle type and cover decision. New claims refer to the claims in these tables that have been counted by the date that ACC registered a claim. This can be immediately after the injury occurred or at any later stage. Table 2 is number of new road claims, broken down by vehicle type and severity. ACC’s definition of serious injury is an injury, generally a traumatic brain injury or spinal injury, that results in a person having lifelong interactions with ACC. Entitlement claims are considered to cover moderate to serious injuries requiring an entitlement beyond medical treatment only. Examples of entitlements include compensation for loss of earnings, allowances for attendant care and childcare, provision of wheelchairs and other equipment, and modifications to the home and vehicles. Medical fees only claims are claims where ACC has made payments to cover treatment costs such as those provided by a GP, physiotherapist or dentist, and the client has not received any entitlements. Other claims are claims where the following have been provided: Independence Allowance; Lump Sums; Death Benefits (Grants, Weekly Compensation) and/or Miscellaneous Benefits/Expenditure. Fatal claims: ACC is not able to provide comprehensive fatality statistics as ACC data is collected on the basis of claims made. Our data may not represent the total number of fatalities related to accident for the following reasons: Many people are not aware that they can make a claim related to an accidental death of family member and therefore ACC only ever receives claims for a subset of accidental deaths. If a person who has an open claim with ACC dies of their injuries, or other causes, ACC is not necessarily notified of this. Table 3 is the number of new road claims registered, broken down by vehicle type and top 5 most common primary diagnoses. Diagnosis is based on the client's primary injury. Claims may have multiple injuries; however, these secondary injuries will not show within this data extract. Table 4 is the number of new road claims registered, broken down by vehicle type and territorial location. Due to the way in which ACC records information, location is based on where the accident took place and may differ to where a client was residing at the time. Table 5 is the number of active road claims with payments made, broken down by vehicle type. Active claims refers to claims that generated a payment in the relevant calendar years. These claims were not necessarily registered, or had the accident occur, in the same calendar year. A claim can cover multiple calendar years. As such, a claim which lasts longer than one year is counted as 'active' once for each calendar year covered. For example, a claim which lasted from 2018 to 2020 would be counted a total of three times, once for each calendar year. Table 6 is the number of active claim costs (excluding GST) for road claims with payments made, broken down by vehicle type. Information we cannot provide: Some of the information you have requested is not provided to you because the level of detail specified, is not information that is necessary to provide to ACC for a cover decision to be made on a claim. To identify this information, should it exist, would require a manual search of individual claims. As such, we are refusing the request for this information as this would require substantial collation and research to complete. This decision is made under section 18(f) of the Act. In making this decision, we have considered extending the timeframe to respond, or charging as allowed under the Act. However, neither of these options have been offered as they would unreasonably interfere with the everyday functions of the teams involved. Notes about the data • Accredited employer claims have been excluded. • Costs provided are exclusive of GST. • Costs are based on payment date. Payment date may be different to the date of service. • Costs do not include Public Health Acute Services (PHAS) payments. Treatment for covered claims in public hospitals is provided by an annual service agreement between ACC and the Ministry of Health and is funded by bulk payments from ACC to the Crown. • Data were extracted on 13 May 2024 and may differ if rerun at a later date. As this information may be of interest to other members of the public ACC may decide to release a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12. If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch You can email me at GovernmentServices@acc.co.nz. Ngā mihi Christopher Johnston Manager Official Information Act Services Government Engagement

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