Road Safety: Personal Injury Accident Reports in Great Britain, 1979-2015

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

Use Cases

• Predicting accident severity based on reported circumstances and vehicle information.
• Analyzing trends in vehicle model involvement in personal injury accidents over time.
• Benchmarking classification algorithms on a real-world tabular dataset with mixed feature types.

Strengths

• Data covers a long temporal range of 36 years (1979-2015).
• Includes detailed vehicle information such as maker and model.
• Dataset is part of a recognized tabular benchmark, suggesting a standardized transformation.

Limitations

• Row count and column details are unknown, limiting 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

Transformed for use in a tabular benchmark (https://github.com/LeoGrin/tabular-benchmark).

Time Range

1979 to 2015

Geography

Great Britain