{"id":829393,"date":"2026-07-28T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:22:14","slug":"car-crashes-nine-out-of-australias-top-10-crash-hotspots-are-in-the-same-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829393\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes: Nine out of Australia\u2019s top 10 crash hotspots are in the same city"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data suggests drivers in Melbourne<\/a> are the most prone to getting into a collision, finding nine out of 10 of Australia\u2019s<\/a> crash hotspots are in the city. <\/p>\n

The 2026 AAMI Crash Index revealed that Springvale Road in Glen Waverley was the nation\u2019s worst spot for crashes<\/a>, taking the crown from Plenty Road in Bundoora, which held the unwanted top spot for eight straight years. <\/p>\n

AAMI spokesperson Mary Kennedy said most insurance claims weren\u2019t high-speed collisions but rather fender benders, failure to give way, and crashing into stationary objects \u2013 all mostly preventable incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cNine of Australia\u2019s top 10 crash hotspots are in Melbourne, which tells us this is not about one bad road. It is a broader pattern across some of our busiest arterial roads,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The only non-Melbourne road to make the list was Pennant Hills Road in Carlingford in Sydney\u2019s north-west<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The index analyses more than 394,000 motor insurance claims lodged across Australia in 2025.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s worst crash spots share similarities, including busy arterial roads, traffic lights, major intersections, shopping precincts<\/a>, car parks and heavy stop-start traffic.<\/p>\n

The data also found most crashes were caused by poor driving habits such as tailgating, late braking, misjudging turns and failing to anticipate changing traffic conditions.<\/p>\n

Male motorists and drivers aged 65 and older were involved in the most crashes, and white, grey, and silver vehicles accounted for the highest number of prangs.<\/p>\n

Friday was also found to be the worst day of the week for collisions.<\/p>\n

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Nose-to-tail bumps were the most common crashes of the year, making up 28 per cent of the data.\u00a0iStock<\/p>\n

\u201cMornings and Fridays are peak prang periods nationally, when school pick-ups, commuters, shoppers and heavy traffic all converge,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether you are driving through Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane<\/a>, Perth<\/a>, Adelaide<\/a>, Hobart<\/a>, Canberra<\/a> or Darwin<\/a>, the message is the same: leave a safe gap, look further ahead, take extra care at intersections and avoid rushing through busy traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New data suggests drivers in Melbourne are the most prone to getting into a collision, finding nine out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-829393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}