Since the early 1980s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been obtaining, from various States, computer data files coded from police crash reports. NHTSA refers to the collection of these computerized State data files as the State Data System (SDS). The SDS is maintained by NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA). Currently, there are 34 States participating in SDS: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. This report presents descriptive statistics summarizing motor vehicle traffic crashes that occurred from 2000 to 2009 in the SDS. The States’ crash data files are unique, contain large amounts of information, and are used by NHTSA analysts for a broad range of motor vehicle traffic crash research and reports and in the development of U.S. DOT regulation and policy. (Author/publisher)
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