Road Casualty Data

Country	Data Set	Status	Provider	Years	Downloaded	Mapped	Comment
AUSTRALIA	New South Wales road casualties	Restricted	NSW Transport, Roads and Maritime Services	?	N	N	Following email communication, the transport authority declined to provide access to this data. We will contact them again at a later data.
AUSTRALIA	Victoria road casualties	Open	Vic Roads	1987-2010	N	N	Vic Roads provide a web based crash stat application to extract data. Data for the year 2010 has been downloaded and is being reviewed to establish whether it is compatible with ITO Map. Geocoding is in Australian Map Grid coordinates.
CANADA	Canadian road casualties	Unavailable	Transport Canada	Unknown	N	N	Transport Canada publish annual traffic collision statistics, but geo-coded data indicating collision and casualty locations is not currently available. Transport Canada have not responded to two email requests for further information.
FINLAND	Finnish road casualties	Unavailable	Statistics Finalnd	Unknown	N	N	"Road accident statistics are used for evaluating the level of road safety at both national and international levels. Data is collected by the police. Statistics Finland receives from the police the data on road traffic accidents that are entered into the PATJA information system of police affairs. Statistics Finland is responsible for the maintenance and controls access to the database. The principal users of the statistics at the national level are Ministries as well as various central agencies and transport organisations. The main users at the local level are municipalities. Monthly statistics are available for public consultation in electronic form on the website of Liikenneturva (the Central Organization for Traffic Safety in Finland). The tables of annual publication are available in electronic file format. Data can also be acquired as files" [1].
FRANCE	French road casualties	Open	data.gouv.fr	2005-2010	Y	N	The data is of a poor quality as many records are not geo-coded. We have contacted the Ministry of Road Safety in France and they confirmed that no better data is available. Not all police cars are equipped with a GPS device and so it is not always possible for them to record accident coordinates. This is something that the Ministry themselves find frustrating as they would also like access to better data.
GB	British road casualties	Restricted	ESDS	1986-2010	Y	Y	Good quality geo-coded data is available for the years 2000-2010 and this data has been mapped. The quality of locational information degrades prior to the year 2000 and as such this older data is not mappable. Data sets are available from the ESDS website which requires a username and password. Downloading the data also requires agreement with specific terms of use.
GERMANY	German road casualties	Unavailable	Statistisches Bundesamt	2007-2010	N	N	"In Germany, traffic accidents are documented by the police. Evidence is collected for the forensic experts as well as for federal statistics held by Statistisches Bundesamt (STBA). Federal statistics are established on traffic accidents on public roads. The recording criterion is at least one tow-away vehicle as a result of the accident. General, aggregated data is available to the public and is published in annual reports by the STBA. Information can also be accessed via internet. In-depth, disaggregated data is available only to organisations that meet the strict requirements of the law on data protection" [2].
ITALY	Italian road casualties	Unavailable	National Institute of Statistics	Unknown	N	N	"In Italy, the national road accident database is maintained by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). The accident database contains information about all traffic accidents that occurred in Italy and caused injuries to persons. The purpose is to inform citizens of all aspects related to road safety. For this reason ISTAT produces annually official statistics on road accidents. Provisional data become definitive after 300 days from the start of data gathering. For instance, data of year 2005 will be available at the end of 2006. Data are available in aggregated form on the internet without any cost; raw data can only be requested by research institutes" [3].
NEW ZEALAND	New Zealand road casualties	Restricted	The New Zealand Transport Agency	1996-	N	N	The New Zealand Transport Agency store mappable road traffic accident data in their Crash Analysis System. We are currently in correspondance with them to establish whether the data would be made available for mapping purposes.
NI	Northern Irish road casualties	Restricted	ESDS	2004-2010	Y	N	Good quality geo-coded data exists for years 2004-2010 and has been downloaded. Data sets are available from the ESDS website which requires a username and password. Downloading the data also requires agreement with specific terms of use. The data is awaiting import into ITO Map.
NL	Netherlands road casualties	Unavailable	Unknown	Unkown	N	N	"The data are collected to support policy making, road design strategies, black spot analysis, or other safety analysis. The data are collected by the police for the whole of The Netherlands. 99% of all fatal accidents are registered, 60% of all hospitalised. Slight injuries are more under represented (estimate 20% available). For property damage only accidents an estimate of 5% is given. Data can be purchased. But several research institutes also have the data available and can do queries to provide aggregated data (TNO, SWOV). Years of available data up to 2003. Data for 2004 and 2005 are expected to be available in June 2006" [4].
USA	USA road casualties	Open	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	1994-2010	Y	Y	Geo-coded data is not available before the year 2001. Data for years 2001-2009 has been downloaded and mapped. 2010 data is now also available on the Fataility Analysis Reporting System website.
EU	Road fatalities by region	Open	Eurostat	2000-2009	N	N	Aggregate statistics at a regional (sub country) level are avaialble on this Eurostat website. The EU also maintain a Community Road Accident Database, which also contains aggregate road accident statistics by country [5]. A table of road fatalities by EU region (sub country) can be downloaded by following the database links to Transport > Regional transport statistics > Victims in road accidents at regional level.
INTERNATIONAL	Aggregate Road Safety Statistics	Open	WHO	2006/7	N	N	Aggregate road casualty statistics are available for a range of countries worldwide on this World Health Organisation website. The Guardian are also hosting aggregate WHO statistics for the year 2009 [6].