Los Angeles Traffic Collisions 2010 to Present

Traffic collision incidents in the City of Los Angeles transcribed from paper police reports. The dataset is no longer updated and is available for historical reference only. Some location fields contain missing data noted as (0°, 0°), and addresses are provided only to the nearest hundred block for privacy.

Use Cases

• Analyze collision patterns using transcribed report data to identify high-incident areas and times
• Study the impact of the reporting system transition by comparing data before and after the LAPD's RMS modernization
• Map approximate collision locations using the nearest hundred block address field while accounting for privacy limitations

Strengths

• Covers over a decade of traffic collision data from 2010 onward for longitudinal analysis
• Sourced from official Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) traffic reports
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF

Limitations

• Data transcription from paper reports may introduce inaccuracies
• Geographic precision is limited as addresses are anonymized to the nearest hundred block
• Contains known data gaps, with some location fields recorded as (0°, 0°)

Provenance

Source

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)

Collection Method

Transcribed from original paper traffic reports

Time Range

2010 to present (historical archive)

Freshness

Historical archive; no longer updated as of the transition to a new reporting system.

Geography

City of Los Angeles