Hazardous Driving Spots with Severity Scores, Updated Monthly

Monthly updated data identifies hazardous driving areas based on harsh braking and accident events aggregated over the previous 12 months. The dataset includes a severity score calculated per area from incident frequency and traffic flow. Data is publicly sourced from Geotab.

Use Cases

• Rank countries by hazardous spot density based on aggregated incident counts.
• Create dynamic geospatial visualizations of road safety risk over time.
• Analyze the correlation between traffic flow and incident severity scores.
• Monitor changes in hazardous area patterns using the monthly update cycle.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated over a rolling 12-month window, providing a stable temporal view.
• Includes a calculated SeverityScore metric combining incident frequency and traffic flow.
• Updated monthly, allowing for analysis of recent trends.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and geographic granularity are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the source platform's coverage.

Provenance

Source

Geotab (geotab.com)

Collection Method

Aggregated from harsh braking and accident-level events.

Time Range

Rolling 12-month window from the previous month.

Freshness

Updated monthly.

Geography

Global (areas around the world).