ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars

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-...

All 50 states (and territories), only fatal crashes, goes back to the 1970s: https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx available via ftp or here: https://github.com/wgetsnaps/ftp.nhtsa.dot.gov--fars All California crashes, fatal to no injury, goes back a few years at least: http://iswitrs.chp.ca.gov/Reports/jsp/userLogin.jsp (You have to create a free account) Overall these data sets have been pretty well studied for the past few decades. The results are well documented: e.g. 6pm to midnight is the deadliest time, young males are the riskiest, older drivers are also risky, etc. Weather can actually be good for safety because people often drive slower and there are fewer cars on the road in bad conditions. But yes, weather can be a factor too.

have a love-hate relationship with the NHTSA database. On one hand, it covers 40 years of data, and unlike virtually every other long-running dataset in existence, it keeps not only a relatively standardized schema, it publishes a all-in-one user manual that covers every year (and any changes between them); most places publish a new PDF for every year, which means you have to read through each one. Even better is that when they make changes or additions to their methodology, they publish an auxiliary dataset that you can use to retroactively update old datasets. But then for some reason, they throw out all rationality when it comes to naming files and fields. It's as if there was employee who was old-school and was stuck in mindset of naming things under the 8-character all-caps limitation. And then someone else thought, "Fuck this", and