Accuracy: The City of Ottawa provides this information in good faith but provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability arising from any incorrect, incomplete or misleading information or its improper use. Collision Data Accuracy:
Each reportable collision occurring on public roadways is sent to the City of Ottawa and is validated at least once. Approximately 50% of the records are validated once again by a senior staff. Additionally, many queries are run on the database looking for errors.
X & Y Accuracy:
• Collisions are pinned according to information provided by the officer on the Motor Vehicle Collision Report.
• In some cases, insufficient information was provided, and the collision location is an estimate. In 2017: 765 of 14398 (5.3%).
Attributes: • Date • Time • Location description (RD1 @ RD2 or RD from RD 1 to RD 2) • Classification of collision (non-fatal, fatal, property damage only) • Collision location (Intersection, non-intersection, at/near private driveway) • Road surface condition (Ice, wet, dry snow...) • Environment (Clear, rain, snow…) • Light (daylight, dawn, dusk…) • Initial impact type (Angle, turning movement, rear-end…) • Traffic control (stop, traffic signal, no control…) • X and Y coordinate format is projected in MTM Zone 9, NAD83 (CSRS) • Latitude and longitude
This dataset projected in latitude, longitude (WGS84)
Update Frequency: Annually
Contact: Transportation Data Collection & Analytics