Copacabana Traffic Accidents by Location and Type

Accident counts by year, classified by type and location. The dataset includes columns for road design, fatalities, injuries, and property damage. It is hosted by the Colombian open data portal www.datos.gov.co and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in accident severity using AÑO, MUERTOS, and HERIDOS.
• Identify high-risk road designs by correlating DISEÑO VIA with TOTAL accident counts.
• Map accident hotspots for resource allocation using the LUGAR and DAÑOS columns.

Strengths

• Includes key severity metrics: MUERTOS (fatalities), HERIDOS (injuries), and DAÑOS (property damage).
• Provides classification by both location (LUGAR) and road design (DISEÑO VIA).
• Data is available in multiple standard formats: CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co (Colombian open data portal)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 18:44:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely the municipality of Copacabana, Colombia, based on the dataset title.