For example, I can see the death in front of my house from a year ago, which was the driver suffering a heart attack while driving. He was the only victim and it wasn’t the crash that killed home.
Would love to be able to compare areas for things like:
- DUI - speeding/reckless driving - cycling victims - pedestrian victims - multiple vs single vehicle - medical cause
I high recommend people get into NHTSA's FARS database. It's an old school GSA type database, so it's format is a little unusual, but you can hoist into an SQL table without much difficulty, and then you can ask and answer all of these questions.
They often include things like "path of accident" so you can even run queries and ask questions like "how many vehicles flipped over before crashing" or "how many passengers get ejected from the vehicle before dying" or even "how often are snow banks involved in crashes?"
Odd things last I checked in 2015:
More people die in Texas than California. In total. Not per capita.
Most people in Florida die between 7pm and 9pm which is far later than most other states.
For example, I can see the death in front of my house from a year ago, which was the driver suffering a heart attack while driving. He was the only victim and it wasn’t the crash that killed home.
Would love to be able to compare areas for things like:
- DUI - speeding/reckless driving - cycling victims - pedestrian victims - multiple vs single vehicle - medical cause