New York City records detail each motor vehicle involved in police-reported collisions since April 2016, when electronic reporting began. The data originates from NYPD's FORMS system, which captures all fields from the state MV-104AN collision report form.
Use Cases
- Analyze vehicle types and contributing factors recorded on the MV-104AN form to identify high-risk vehicle categories for targeted safety interventions.
- Link vehicle records to separate collision and person tables using common crash identifiers to reconstruct full crash scenarios.
- Track temporal trends in vehicle involvement in collisions following the 2014 Vision Zero initiative launch.
Strengths
- Data collection is standardized citywide using the electronic FORMS system, ensuring uniform field capture across all NYPD precincts.
- Records include all MV-104AN data fields for each collision, enabling detailed analyses.
- The dataset has been updated continuously since the system's launch in April 2016, providing a multi-year time series.
Limitations
- Data is described as preliminary and subject to change as MV-104AN reports are amended, which may affect analysis consistency.
- The dataset only includes collisions reported to police, typically involving injury, death, or significant damage, missing minor incidents.
Provenance
- Source
- City of New York, NYPD
- Collection Method
- Police officers electronically enter data from the state MV-104AN collision report form into the Finest Online Records Management System (FORMS).
- Time Range
- From April 2016 onward
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- New York City