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  # NYC Vehicle Collisions
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  Note:This data can not be loaded using load_data(). This dataset contains detailed records of motor vehicle collisions in New York City, collected by the NYPD. It includes information such as the date and time of the incident, location (borough, latitude, longitude), contributing factors, types of vehicles involved, and counts of persons injured or killed. It is a vital resource for traffic safety analysis, urban planning, and policy-making related to transportation and public health.
 
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+ description: "The Motor Vehicle Collisions crash table contains details on the crash\
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+ \ \\ event. Each row represents a crash event. The Motor Vehicle Collisions data\
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+ \ tables \\ contain information from all police reported motor vehicle collisions\
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+ \ in NYC. \\ The police report (MV104-AN) is required to be filled out for collisions\
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+ \ where \\ someone is injured or killed, or where there is at least $1000 worth\
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+ \ of damage \\ (https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/ny_overlay_mv-104an_rev05_2004.pdf).\
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+ \ \\ It should be noted that the data is preliminary and subject to change when\
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+ \ the \\ MV-104AN forms are amended based on revised crash details.For the most\
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+ \ accurate, \\ up to date statistics on traffic fatalities, please refer to the\
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+ \ <a href=\"https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/traffic-data/traffic-data-collision.page\"\
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+ \ \\ style=\"color:#187bcd;\">NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions page</a> (updated weekly)\
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+ \ \\ or <a href=\"http://www.nycvzv.info/\" style=\"color:#187bcd;\">Vision Zero\
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+ \ View</a> \\ (updated monthly).\r\n\r\n</p>\r\nDue to success of the CompStat\
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+ \ program, NYPD \\ began to ask how to apply the CompStat principles to other\
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+ \ problems. Other than \\ homicides, the fatal incidents with which police have\
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+ \ the most contact with the \\ public are fatal traffic collisions. Therefore\
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+ \ in April 1998, the Department \\ implemented TrafficStat, which uses the CompStat\
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+ \ model to work towards improving \\ traffic safety. Police officers complete\
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+ \ form MV-104AN for all vehicle collisions. \\ The MV-104AN is a New York State\
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+ \ form that has all of the details of a traffic \\ collision. Before implementing\
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+ \ Trafficstat, there was no uniform traffic safety \\ data collection procedure\
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+ \ for all of the NYPD precincts. Therefore, the Police \\ Department implemented\
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+ \ the Traffic Accident Management System (TAMS) in July 1999 \\ in order to collect\
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+ \ traffic data in a uniform method across the City. TAMS required \\ the precincts\
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+ \ manually enter a few selected MV-104AN fields to collect very basic \\ intersection\
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+ \ traffic crash statistics which included the number of accidents, \\ injuries\
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+ \ and fatalities. As the years progressed, there grew a need for additional \\\
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+ \ traffic data so that more detailed analyses could be conducted. The Citywide traffic\
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+ \ \\ safety initiative, Vision Zero started in the year 2014. Vision Zero further\
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+ \ \\ emphasized the need for the collection of more traffic data in order to work\
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+ \ towards \\ the Vision Zero goal, which is to eliminate traffic fatalities. Therefore,\
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+ \ the \\ Department in March 2016 replaced the TAMS with the new Finest Online\
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+ \ Records \\ Management System (FORMS). FORMS enables the police officers to electronically,\
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+ \ \\ using a Department cellphone or computer, enter all of the MV-104AN data fields\
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+ \ \\ and stores all of the MV-104AN data fields in the Department’s crime data\
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+ \ \\ warehouse. Since all of the MV-104AN data fields are now stored for each\
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+ \ traffic \\ collision, detailed traffic safety analyses can be conducted as applicable.\n"
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  # NYC Vehicle Collisions
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  Note:This data can not be loaded using load_data(). This dataset contains detailed records of motor vehicle collisions in New York City, collected by the NYPD. It includes information such as the date and time of the incident, location (borough, latitude, longitude), contributing factors, types of vehicles involved, and counts of persons injured or killed. It is a vital resource for traffic safety analysis, urban planning, and policy-making related to transportation and public health.