British Columbia health regions provide counts of motor vehicle hospitalizations lasting over 24 hours. The data includes all hospital admissions, covering crashes on roads not governed by the Motor Vehicle Act. It is published by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated on April 17, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional disparities in motor vehicle injury severity based on hospitalization counts
- Monitor public health outcomes from transportation incidents based on hospital admission data
- Evaluate safety policies by comparing hospitalization rates across different health regions
- Assess risk on non-standard roads based on the inclusion of crashes on forest-service and private roads
Strengths
- Data includes crashes on roads not covered by the Motor Vehicle Act, such as forest-service roads
- Based on all hospital admissions, providing a comprehensive count of serious incidents
- Last updated on April 17, 2026, indicating recent data maintenance
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Based on all hospital admissions.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:37:37.918766
- Geography
- British Columbia health regions