UK 2016 Road Safety Data

Context

UK police forces collect data on every vehicle collision in the UK on a form called Stats19. Data from this form ends up at the DfT and is published at https://data.gov.uk/dataset/road-accidents-safety-data

Content

There are 4 CSVs and an Excel file in this set. Accidents is the primary table and has references by Accident_Index to the other tables.

Acknowledgements

Department for Transport and the UK's wonderful Open Gov initiative https://data.gov.uk/

Inspiration

• Are there patterns for accidents involving different road users?
• Can we predict the safest / most dangerous times to travel
• Can this data help route cyclists around accident hotspots taking into account the time of day, weather, route etc
• Are certain cars more accident prone than others?