Statewide crash data provide the basic information for most of the analyses and data collection programs which support the mission of the NHTSA. They are a valuable source of information about the characteristics of the crash, vehicle(s), and persons involved in a crash that can enhance decision making for highway safety, traffic safety and injury control activities. This report presents six years of crash data from the seventeen states in NHTSA's State Data System. The State Data System is conducted by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) and is part of NCSA's overall State Data Program which has the goal of providing the best quality state data for use in analyses aimed at reducing deaths, injuries, crashes and the associated health care costs and furthering injury control efforts. The State Data System accomplishes this goal by: (1) obtaining, documenting and making available to NHTSA analysts state crash data files; (2) providing technical assistance to states to improve their highway safety-related databases, to link crash, driver, and medical outcome databases to increase their utility, and to improve state analytical capability; and (3) providing state data analytical support for NHTSA programs. This report describes some characteristics of the motor vehicle traffic crash experience in each of the seventeen states in the State Data System. (A)
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