The 2020 review of STATS19 police collision data recommended a different approach to contributory factors, reducing and reorganising them to align to the Safe Systems approach. These will be called Road Safety Factors
There will be a reduction from 78 to 39 contributory factors, and new codes will be allocated. A matrix will be published mapping from old to new codes
This will improve the structure of the contributory factors and group them by:
- Roads
- Vehicles
- Speed
- Road user behaviour: Behaviour or inexperience
- Road user behaviour: Distraction and impairment
- Non-motorised road users