Annual counts of serious motor vehicle injuries in British Columbia where speeding was involved. The data includes only crashes attended by a police officer where the officer assessed a victim would require hospitalization exceeding 24 hours. It is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated on April 17, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in serious injury rates based on annual counts.
- Assess the role of speeding in police-reported serious injury crashes.
- Evaluate the scope of police-reported data based on the described inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Strengths
- Data is explicitly defined by police officer assessment of hospitalization exceeding 24 hours.
- Clear exclusion criteria for non-public roads, off-road accidents, and unattended crashes.
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 and temporal bias inherent to police-reported incidents in British Columbia.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Police-reported crash data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:38:01.159967.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada