Road Traffic Injuries in Nepal during COVID-19 Lockdown_Media reporting (24 March to 14 June, 2020).csv

The data file include secondary data from multiple sources i.e. media reports, published, and unpublished police records. Data collection was done in two ways; online search of daily media reports for vehicle crash incidents and through obtaining police records. According to the nature of data sources, a limited number of variables - total number of crashes, crash location, vehicles that instigate the crashes, i.e. the vehicle and the counterparts (animal, people, or objects etc.) involved in the crash, and number of deaths &amp; injuries were recorded. This paper includes the road crashes information for 82 days of the lockdown (24 March to 14 June 2020) from media reports and police records. The exact location and types of vehicles involved in fatal crashes were not available from the Police data, therefore the exact detail of the vehicles and the location of crashes were extracted from the media reporting. With the available information of location, <i>Palika level –</i> (local government unit) for fatal crashes, the cases were nationally mapped. Similarly, comparisons have been made between the data for the same period for both the sources, where needed.