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

Data from 1979 to 2015 reported to police about the circumstances of personal injury road accidents in Great Britain. The dataset includes information on the vehicles involved, such as maker and model. It was contributed by authors Yoontae Hwang, Youngbin Lee, and Yongjae Lee.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in accident rates based on the 36-year time span mentioned in the description
• Model risk factors for personal injury accidents based on reported circumstances
• Associate vehicle makes and models with accident outcomes based on the included vehicle information
• Study geographic patterns in road safety for Great Britain based on the spatial coverage

Strengths

• Covers a long time series of 36 years, from 1979 to 2015
• Includes vehicle-level detail such as maker and model for involved vehicles
• Focuses on personal injury accidents, a critical subset for safety analysis

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Data reported to police in Great Britain.

Collection Method

Administrative reporting to police authorities.

Time Range

1979 to 2015

Freshness

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

Geography

Great Britain