Data · dataset · 2007
State Accident Data Files
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The agency collected and used these data to support its efforts to identify traffic safety problems, to help develop and implement vehicle and driver countermeasures, to evaluate motor vehicle standards, and to study crash avoidance issues, crash worthiness issues, and regulations.
Description
This series contains information describing characteristics of motor vehicle crashes, the vehicles, and people involved and the results of the officer's investigation of the crash itself.
Prior to 1990 the agen cy maintained data on all states. After 1990, the agency collected data from only 17 states: California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. In general, there are four data files per year.
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Each year may have an Accident file, a Commercial file, a Personal file, and a Vehicle file. These data files can contain information about the vehicle type, vehicle model and year, accident location and time of day, road conditions and type of roadway, weather and light conditions, location of damage to vehicle, cargo type and class, number of passengers and vehicles involved, driver's race and eye color, driver's license type and state of issue, driver's age, gross vehicle weight, number of axles / tires, and other vehicle and driver related information.
This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.
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Where it is published
- Dataverse dataset page dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl%3A1902.5%2F597445 ↗
landing page · from Harvard Dataverse
- Persistent identifier hdl.handle.net/1902.5/597445 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from Harvard Dataverse
Catalogue records · 1
- Dataverse API dataverse.harvard.edu/api/datasets/:persistentId/?persistentId=hdl%3A1902.5%2F597445 ↗
metadata API · from Harvard Dataverse
Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| Harvard Dataverse | hdl:1902.5/597445 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| created_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /description |
| publication_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | /name |
| updated_date | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · Harvard Dataverse | connector:dataverse@1.0.0 |