FARS {LSTbook}

Annual summaries concerning motor-vehicle related fatalities in the US#'

Description

Annual summaries concerning motor-vehicle related fatalities in the US#'

Usage

data(FARS)

Format

A data.frame object with one row per year from 1994 to 2016

• year: The year covered by the summary

• crashes the number of incidents in that year

• drivers the number of drivers killed in those incidents

• passengers the number of passengers killed in those incidents

• unknown vehicle occupants killed whose status as driver or passenger is unknown

• motorcyclists the number of motorcyclists killed in those incidents

• pedestrians the number of pedestrians killed in those incidentss

• pedalcyclists the number of non-motorized cyclist deaths

• other_nonvehicle the number of other deaths in those incidents

• vehicle_miles the number of miles driven by all vehicles, whether they were involved in an incident or not. (billions of miles)

• population the population of the US (thousands of people)

• registered_vehicles the number of motor vehicles registered in the US (thousands)

• licenced_drivers the number of licenced drivers in the US (thousands)

Source

From the Fatality Analysis Reporting System of the US Department of Transportation (DOT). The data have been put into a tidy form from the untidy version published by the DOT, removing columns calculated from other columns and so on.