Annual counts of motor vehicle fatalities in British Columbia, segmented by police traffic region. The data is produced by the Government of British Columbia and defines a fatality as a road user deceased within 30 days of a collision on a public highway. It excludes incidents on roads not covered by the Motor Vehicle Act, such as forest-service roads, and excludes homicides or suicides.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional road safety trends based on fatalities by police traffic region
- Compare year-over-year fatality counts for specific regions
- Assess public health impacts of motor vehicle collisions based on the fatality definition
- Identify high-risk regions for targeted safety interventions
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Government of British Columbia
- Fatality definition is precise, excluding non-public highways and non-collision deaths
- Last updated on 2026-04-17, indicating recent maintenance
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, focusing only on British Columbia
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia | Gouvernment de la Colombie-Britannique
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:38:31.732308
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada