Traffic accident statistics?

Question

I'm doing soe work on traffic accidents. But I need to find the stats for causes in traffic accidents in 2002. If any one knows a wqebsite or publication where i can find these i'd love to hear

thnx

Answer 1

Try this site as well.

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/

Answer 2

try the highways agency website.

also national prevention of accidents may some info aswell.

Answer 3

I was just reading an article about traffic accidents but they write "the full complement of these data being too costly to obtain" so it might not be free. What's your budget?

"For our studies, we calculated the risk of driver fatality using the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, or FARS, the federal database of all deaths stemming from accidents on public roadways... Actually, our procedure is a little more complicated, because we typically analyze a range of several years and because we normally do not have registration records for the entire period (the full complement of these data being too costly to obtain)...."