UK Car Accidents 2005-2015

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 3 CSVs in this set. Accidents is the primary one and has references by Accident_Index to the casualties and vehicles tables. This might be better done as a database.

Inspiration

Questions to ask of this data -

• combined with population data, how do different areas compare?
• what trends are there for accidents involving different road users eg motorcycles, peds, cyclists
• are road safety campaigns effective?
• likelihood of accidents for different groups / vehicles
• many more..

Manifest

dft05-15.tgz - tar of Accidents0515.csv, Casualties0515.csv and Vehicles0515.csv
tidydata.sh - script to get and tidy data.