Understand Motor Vehicle Crashes with Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
Understanding where and how fatal motor vehicle crashes occur is crucial to making roads safer, informing public policy, and supporting transportation planning. A new feature layer sourced from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is now available in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, providing data on motor vehicle fatal crashes from 2019 through 2023, across the United States.
The FARS Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes 2019 to 2023 layer, along with several web maps and an accompanying dashboard are all available in Living Atlas to help support the GIS community in advancing transportation safety toward the goal of zero motor vehicle deaths.
This goal, shared by Vision Zero and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration’s Safe System Approach, acknowledges that while reaching zero deaths may be an ambitious goal, no loss of life on our roads is acceptable—and it is a collective effort to systematically eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
For more information about FARS and to learn how to use and access the content from Living Atlas, read the full blog by Steven Aviles here.
