Four years of individual-level crash data reported to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. Attributes include Injury Severity, Safety Equipment, Age, Sex, Role Type, and Victim Status for each person involved. The data is provided by data.ny.gov.
Use Cases
- Modeling Injury Severity based on Age, Sex, Safety Equipment, and Seating Position.
- Analyzing the association between Ejection status, Safety Equipment use, and Victim Status.
- Profiling demographic and role distributions (Role Type, License State Code) of individuals in crashes.
- Investigating transportation methods for the injured (Transported By) relative to Injury Descriptor and Injury Location.
Strengths
- Contains 15 detailed attributes per individual record.
- Covers a four-year temporal window for longitudinal analysis.
Limitations
- Unknown total row count prevents assessment of statistical power.
- Geographic scope is limited to New York State, limiting generalizability.
- Data freshness is unclear as the 'last updated' date is in the future (2026).
Provenance
- Source
- New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (NYS DMV).
- Collection Method
- Reported by involved parties and authorities following motor vehicle crashes.
- Time Range
- Four-year window (specific years unknown).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- New York State, USA.