VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Injuries From Crashes (EN7-9) FULL MEASURE NAME Serious injuries from crashes (traffic collisions) LAST UPDATED October 2017 DESCRIPTION Injuries from crashes refers to serious but not fatal injuries sustained in a collision. The California Highway Patrol classifies a serious injury as any combination of the following: broken bones; dislocated or distorted limbs; severe lacerations; skull, spinal, chest or abdominal injuries that go beyond visible injuries; unconsciousness at or when taken from the scene; or severe burns. This injuries dataset includes serious injury counts for the region and counties, as well as individual collision data. DATA SOURCE California Highway Patrol: Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System CONTACT INFORMATION vitalsigns.info@bayareametro.gov METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator) The data is reported by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to the Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS), which was accessed via SafeTREC’s Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS). The data was tabulated using provided categories specifying injury level, individuals involved, causes of collision, and location/jurisdiction of collision (for more: http://tims.berkeley.edu/help/files/switrs_codebook.doc). Fatalities were normalized over historic population data from the US Census and American Community Surveys and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) data from the Federal Highway Administration. For more regarding reporting procedures and injury classification, see the California Highway Patrol Manual (http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/stateCatalog/states/ca/docs/CACHP555Manual_22003ch1-13.pdf).
This dataset has the following 19 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geography | geography | text | Alameda County Contra Costa County Marin County Napa County San Francisco County view top 100 | |
| Year | year | number | 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 view top 100 | |
| Injuries | injuries | number | Number of severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 81 388 109 128 159 view top 100 |
| InjuriesMotorists | injuriesmotorists | number | Number of motorist (including motorcyclist) severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 60 117 124 86 172 view top 100 |
| InjuriesBicyclist | injuriesbicyclist | number | Number of bicyclist severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 39 25 30 41 40 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPedestrian | injuriespedestrian | number | Number of pedestrian severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 88 42 12 7 27 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPer100KCapita | injuriesper100kcapita | number | Total number of severe injuries per 100,000 people | 26.21061795 25.29488828 29.78702279 29.99737523 36.84837473 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPer100MVMT | injuriesper100mvmt | number | Total number of severe injuries per 100 million VMT | 2.969309597 2.870010717 3.296426438 3.243634918 3.930292918 view top 100 |
| Injuries_5YR | injuries_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling Average of Number of severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 163.2 381.8 134.2 130.2 128.4 view top 100 |
| InjuriesMotorists_5YR | injuriesmotorists_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling Average of Number of motorist severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 265.4 259.6 105.8 103.2 101.8 view top 100 |
| InjuriesBicyclist_5YR | injuriesbicyclist_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling Average of Number of bicyclist severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 43.8 22 7 7.6 45.8 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPedestrian_5YR | injuriespedestrian_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling Average of Number of pedestrian severe injuries as a result of crashes (traffic collisions) in the given year and geography | 74.2 41.2 35.6 64.2 19.4 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPer100KCapita_5YR | injuriesper100kcapita_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling average of injuries per 100,000 people | 20.94318599 20.33576686 32.99188231 31.84362071 31.28665016 view top 100 |
| InjuriesPer100MVMT_5YR | injuriesper100mvmt_5yr | number | 5-Year Rolling average of injuries per 100 million VMT | 3.080163791 3.02239931 3.562311477 3.394534376 3.312534584 view top 100 |
| Population | population | number | 415862 419057 423003 426704 431498 view top 100 | |
| VMT | vmt | number | Annual Vehicle Miles Traveled | 5802657000 3693366000 3822321000 3946190100 4045500000 view top 100 |
| Source1 | source1 | text | SWITRS_TIMS view top 100 | |
| Source2 | source2 | text | DOF_E8 DOF_E5 view top 100 | |
| Source3 | source3 | text | HPMS view top 100 |