Non-Motorist Traffic Collisions in Montgomery County, Maryland

Non-motorist records from traffic collisions on county and local roadways in Montgomery County, Maryland. The data is collected via the Maryland State Police Automated Crash Reporting System and reported by local police departments. It is updated weekly and can be joined with related incident and driver datasets using a State Report Number.

Use Cases

• Analyze pedestrian and cyclist involvement rates in traffic collisions based on the dataset's focus on non-motorists.
• Identify high-risk locations for non-motorists based on collision geography implied by the description.
• Assess preliminary collision classifications and their potential changes over time based on the data's investigative status.
• Join with driver and incident datasets for a complete crash analysis based on the stated join key (State Report Number).

Strengths

• Data is updated weekly, suggesting regular maintenance.
• Can be integrated with two related crash datasets via a stated join key (State Report Number).
• Explicitly focuses on non-motorist (pedestrian and cyclist) involvement, a specific safety segment.

Limitations

• Data is based on preliminary police reports and may include unverified information or errors.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Montgomery County of Maryland, via the Maryland State Police Automated Crash Reporting System (ACRS).

Collection Method

Collected from police reports filed by Montgomery County Police, Gaithersburg Police, Rockville Police, or Maryland-National Capital Park Police.

Time Range

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Freshness

Weekly

Geography

County and local roadways within Montgomery County, Maryland.