State Traffic Safety Profiles from FARS Encyclopedia

The State Traffic Safety Information portal provides state-by-state traffic safety profiles from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Encyclopedia. It includes data on crashes, lives saved, legislation, economic costs, grant funding, and alcohol-related incidents, maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Use Cases

• Analyze alcohol-related crash data trends across different states to evaluate public safety interventions.
• Map geographic crash data to identify high-risk roadway corridors for targeted infrastructure spending.
• Correlate state legislation with performance measures like lives saved to assess policy effectiveness.
• Model economic costs of traffic fatalities using crash data and state grant funding information.

Strengths

• Data is part of the authoritative Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Encyclopedia.
• Profiles include multiple analytical dimensions such as legislation, economic costs, and performance measures.
• Maintained by the U.S. Department of Transportation, with a recent update in May 2025.

Limitations

• Data is presented in HTML format, complicating automated extraction and analysis.
• Specific row counts, column definitions, and sample data are unavailable for assessing dataset scale and structure.

Provenance

Source

Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Encyclopedia, U.S. Department of Transportation.

Collection Method

State-by-state aggregation of traffic safety data, including crash reports, legislation, and economic analyses.

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-05-31.

Geography

United States, state-level.