Road Safety: Personal Injury Accident and Vehicle Data for Great Britain, 1979-2015

Great Britain's personal injury road accident data reported to police from 1979, including vehicle maker and model information. This version contains data up to the year 2015. The dataset was prepared by P. Cerda and G. Varoquaux for a tabular data benchmark.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking classification algorithms based on mixed numerical and categorical accident features.
• Analyzing accident circumstance trends over time based on the multi-decade temporal coverage.
• Investigating correlations between vehicle makes/models and accident outcomes based on the included vehicle information.
• Modeling factors contributing to personal injury severity based on reported accident circumstances.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1979 to 2015.
• Includes both accident circumstances and detailed vehicle information (maker and model).
• Used in a recognized tabular data benchmark, suggesting a standardized transformation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Data reported to police in Great Britain, sourced from OpenML.

Collection Method

Reported administrative data, transformed for a benchmark.

Time Range

1979 to 2015

Freshness

Data includes records up to 2015; last platform update date is unknown.

Geography

Great Britain