Police-reported serious injury counts in British Columbia by traffic region and year. The data includes only crashes attended by a police officer where the officer assesses a victim will require more than 24 hours of hospitalization. It excludes incidents on roads where the Motor Vehicle Act does not apply, off-road snowmobile accidents, homicides, suicides, and crashes without police attendance.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional trends in serious motor vehicle injuries based on police traffic region and year
- Evaluate the coverage and impact of police-reported crash data based on the described inclusion criteria
- Compare serious injury rates across different police jurisdictions in British Columbia based on the regional breakdown
Strengths
- Data is explicitly filtered to include only police-attended crashes with a serious injury assessment, providing a clear operational definition.
- The dataset excludes specific non-applicable scenarios (e.g., forest-service roads, suicides) as stated, reducing ambiguity.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Data gathered from police reports of attended crashes.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:35:54.743455; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada, by police traffic region.