Traffic crashes in Dover
Every crash report inside Dover city limits since 2009: date and time, severity, whether a pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, alcohol or drugs were involved, road, light and weather conditions, the main cause the officer recorded, location and City Council district. No names or report numbers.
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Crash reports as published on Delaware's open data portal: facts about each crash, with no names or report numbers. The portal's terms do not limit reuse. The state notes this is its best available information, not an official record of what happened. Please credit it with the line below.
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- Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security
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- Facts only (no license needed for the facts)
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Crash data from the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security, data.delaware.gov.- Updated
- Weekly
- Covers
- 2009 to now; the state adds reports months after a crash
- Area
- Crashes whose location falls inside a Dover City Council district. The Dover by the Numbers crashes report counts by the Census city boundary instead, so its yearly totals run about 3 percent higher.
Fields
crashes
id, crash_datetime, year, severity, pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, alcohol, drugs, school_bus, work_zone, seatbelt_used, impact, road_surface, light, weather, primary_cause, latitude, longitude, district, updated_at
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Files are saved each morning. Earlier copies, one for each day the data changed, are listed at dover-crashes/versions.
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https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/dover-crashes/rows?table=crashes
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