Traffic crashes

The data is provided by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. It is based on current crash data in the North Carolina Crash Database as reported by the NC State Highway Patrol and municipalities throughout the state. There is a lag in processing crash data, particularly data from municipalities that submit crash reports using paper forms. As a result, the dataset here is preliminary and may represent an undercount of the true crash totals. From the NC DOT: The data are intended to provide the public with a general overview of traffic safety trends, should not be used for planning purposes, and are not considered authoritative. Data presented herein may differ slightly from NCDOT published data due to differences in reporting and update frequencies. The intent of presenting these data is to provide insights and trends for general informational purposes only, and they are not intended as official authoritative data. The raw data is provided directly to our research team as a .csv file containing the county-level aggregated number of traffic crashes each day. The data is updated monthly, and contains the number of crashes of different severity types, including fatal, incapacitating injury, nonincapacitating injury, possible injury, no injury, and unknown injuries.