The Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 46.52.030 requires that a standard Police Traffic Collision Report (PTCR) be submitted when an injury or death occurs to any person, or there is damage to the property of any person to an apparent extent of one thousand dollars or more. RCW 46.52.060 further prescribes that this information be tabulated and reported annually. This is the last print publication of the Annual Collision Summary. The Washington State Patrol has made available the Collision Analysis Tool (CAT), available at https://fortress.wa.gov/wsp/collisionanalysistool/, for providing real-time collision data to meet the requirements of RCW 46.52.060. The data tables presented in this summary may be accessed through the Reports feature of the CAT. The annual collision summary is a collaborative effort between several traffic safety agencies. The Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) Transportation Data and GIS Office (TDGO), by contractual agreement with the Washington State Patrol (WSP), is responsible for collecting, processing, analysing and disseminating collision data pertaining to all public roadways in Washington State. Information on these crashes is stored in the Collision Location and Analysis System (CLAS). The Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) is responsible for coding and analysing all traffic fatalities that occur in Washington State as part of the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The source data used for collision information contained in this summary originates from collision reports submitted by law enforcement officers to WSP. WSP shares this information with WSDOT and WTSC for the CLAS and FARS databases. This report covers police officer reported collisions on all public roadways in Washington State for the year 2015. Other agencies contributing to this summary include WSP, the Department of Licensing (DOL), the Office of Financial Management (OFM), the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) and the Department of Health (DOH). This report reflects a snapshot of available 2015 data as of January 2017. WSDOT provides data in this report with the understanding that it will not be used, contrary to the restrictions in United States Code 23 Section 409, in discovery or as evidence at trial in any action for damages against WSDOT, the State of Washington, or any other jurisdiction involved in the locations mentioned in the data. These entities expressly reserve the right, under Section 409, to object to the use of the data, including any opinions drawn from the data. (Author/publisher)
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