Motor Vehicle Fatalities by Month tracks the number of road user deaths in British Columbia on public highways. The Government of British Columbia provides monthly counts of fatalities involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and cyclists, where the victim died within 30 days of the collision. The data excludes incidents on roads not covered by the Motor Vehicle Act, such as forest-service roads, and excludes homicides or suicides.
Use Cases
- Analyze seasonal trends in road fatalities based on monthly and yearly counts
- Assess public highway safety performance based on fatality counts by road user type
- Model temporal patterns in motor vehicle collisions based on monthly time-series data
- Compare fatality rates across different years based on the year and month breakdown
Strengths
- Data is provided by the authoritative Government of British Columbia
- Fatality definition is clearly specified as death within 30 days of a collision on a public highway
- Data excludes non-applicable incidents like those on private roads or suicides, enhancing focus
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to open_canada, being limited to British Columbia
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:30:32.924170; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada