NYC Motor Vehicle Collisions Person-Level Details, 2016 Onward

New York City data on individuals involved in police-reported motor vehicle collisions, recorded since April 2016. The dataset includes 21 columns such as PERSON_TYPE, PERSON_INJURY, SAFETY_EQUIPMENT, and CONTRIBUTING_FACTOR_1 for each person. Data is collected via the NYPD's FORMS system from MV-104AN reports and is preliminary, subject to amendment.

Use Cases

• Analyze injury severity (PERSON_INJURY) by person type (PERSON_TYPE) and age (PERSON_AGE) to identify high-risk demographics.
• Investigate contributing factors (CONTRIBUTING_FACTOR_1, CONTRIBUTING_FACTOR_2) for collisions involving pedestrians (PED_ROLE) and their actions (PED_ACTION).
• Study safety equipment usage (SAFETY_EQUIPMENT) and ejection status (EJECTION) relative to bodily injury (BODILY_INJURY) across vehicle positions (POSITION_IN_VEHICLE).

Strengths

• Person-level granularity with 21 distinct attributes per record, including safety equipment and contributing factors.
• Data collection is standardized citywide via the NYPD's electronic FORMS system, replacing a manual process.
• Explicitly linked to collision events via COLLISION_ID and VEHICLE_ID, enabling multi-table joins.

Limitations

• Data is described as preliminary and subject to change when official MV-104AN forms are amended.
• Row count and total size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

NYPD via data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Collected electronically by police officers via the Finest Online Records Management System (FORMS) from MV-104AN collision reports.

Time Range

April 2016 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 23:44:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York City, USA