Personal and Fatal Accident Locations in Charente-Maritime, 2017

Accident locations in the Charente-Maritime territory of France for the year 2017, covering both personal injury and fatal incidents. The data originates from police and gendarmerie accident reports submitted to the DDTM 17 — UARDD Service, Crisis Management, Road Safety and Transport. The dataset was last updated on the platform in September 2021.

Use Cases

• Identify high-risk road segments based on accident location density.
• Analyze spatial distribution of fatal versus non-fatal accidents.
• Support policy evaluation for road safety initiatives in the Charente-Maritime department.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official police and gendarmerie reports, suggesting authoritative incident recording.
• Geographic scope is clearly defined as the Charente-Maritime department in France.
• Temporal coverage is specified as the single year 2017.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Last updated 2021-09-17 00:00:00; freshness should be verified for current applications.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Compiled from police and gendarmerie accident reports sent to DDTM 17 — UARDD Service.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2021-09-17 00:00:00

Geography

Charente-Maritime department, France