Texas Injury Crash Data for Older Driver Analysis, 1975-1999

Texas police-level crash data from nearly 4 million injury crashes over 25 years. The study analyzed the association between driver age and factors like fragility, illness, perceptual lapses, and left-turn involvement. Control variables included crash type, urban/rural setting, driver sex, light conditions, and intersection involvement.

Use Cases

• Modeling the likelihood of driver death (fragility) based on age and crash type.
• Analyzing the association between driver illness and crash involvement in urban versus rural settings.
• Investigating perceptual lapses like failure to yield relative to light conditions and intersection type.
• Studying left-turn crash risk for older drivers using control variables like sex and vehicle count.

Strengths

• Covers a 25-year time range (1975-1999), allowing longitudinal analysis.
• Based on nearly 4 million injury crashes, providing a large sample size.
• Includes multiple control variables like urban/rural setting, light conditions, and intersection involvement.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias specific to Texas and the late 20th century.

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Analysis of police-level crash data.

Time Range

1975-1999

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Texas, USA