Road Safety: Personal Injury Accident Data from Great Britain, 1979-2015

Data from 1979 to 2015 reported to police about personal injury road accidents in Great Britain, including vehicle maker and model information. This version was used in a tabular data benchmark for classification tasks involving categorical and numerical features. The dataset was prepared by P. Cerda and G. Varoquaux.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking classification algorithms based on categorical and numerical accident features.
• Analyzing trends in vehicle involvement in accidents based on reported maker and model data.
• Studying factors contributing to personal injury road accidents based on reported circumstances.

Strengths

• Covers a long time range from 1979 to 2015.
• Includes both categorical and numerical features suitable for classification benchmarks.
• Data originates from official police reports in Great Britain.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Police reports from Great Britain.

Collection Method

Reported to the police.

Time Range

1979-2015

Geography

Great Britain