[ouid]

There is no federal database of traffic fatalities? In terms of human resources we lose on the order of 150 billion (40000 <lives>*7,000,000 <$/life> /2 ) dollars a year in traffic fatalities. That's not including the lost work from injuries. That's like 1% of the GDP. You would think that this would be a good enough reason to at least compile a database of causes. Even an incomplete one could be useful.

[davito88]

There is https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

[ouid]

I meant a database of individual fatalities. That was probably not clear.

[davito88]

Ah. FARS does include data for each crash and each victim. It can be a mess to dig through: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars

Also, California has their own database that includes all crashes in the state down to crash/victim level: http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp (You have to create a free account)

There are other datasets too: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/1755/automobile-...