Police-reported serious injury crashes in British Columbia where distraction was involved. The data includes only crashes attended by a police officer where the officer assessed a victim would 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 or suicides, and crashes without police attendance.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in distraction-related serious injuries based on the yearly counts mentioned in the description
- Assess the correlation between police-reported crashes and hospitalization criteria based on the data inclusion rules
- Evaluate the scope of traffic safety data based on the described exclusions (e.g., private roads, off-road incidents)
Strengths
- Data is filtered to include only serious injuries requiring over 24 hours of hospitalization, providing a consistent severity threshold
- Exclusions are clearly defined (e.g., private roads, off-road accidents, non-police attended crashes), clarifying the dataset's scope
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Police-reported crash data with officer assessment of injury severity.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:33:05.094230; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- British Columbia