U.S. Traffic Accidents Across 49 States from 2016 to 2021

From February 2016 to December 2021, this dataset contains countrywide car accident records for 49 U.S. states. The data was aggregated by nateraw from multiple streaming traffic incident APIs, which source information from entities like state DOTs and law enforcement. The dataset was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in accident frequency based on the 2016-2021 date range
• Mapping accident hotspots and regional risk based on the countrywide, 49-state coverage
• Modeling accident likelihood based on features from aggregated traffic incident APIs
• Assessing the impact of road safety policies using multi-year, multi-source incident data

Strengths

• Covers a 5-year time range from February 2016 to December 2021
• Includes data from 49 U.S. states, providing broad geographic coverage
• Aggregated from multiple authoritative sources including state DOTs and law enforcement

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2022-09-07 22:24:52; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

Multiple APIs providing streaming traffic incident data, sourced from entities like U.S. and state departments of transportation and law enforcement.

Collection Method

Collected via multiple APIs broadcasting streaming traffic incident data.

Time Range

February 2016 to December 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2022-09 07 22:24:52

Geography

49 states of the USA