Update frequency: Annually
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.
Attributes:
- X and Y coordinate format is projected in MTM Zone 9, NAD83 (CSRS)
- KML and CSV/XLS formats are projected in latitude, longitude (WGS84)
- 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…)
- No. of Bicycles
- No. of Motorcycles
- Max Injury (Highest injury level in the collisions)
- No. of Injuries
- No. of Minimal (Person did not go to hospital when leaving the scene of the collision)
- No. of Minor (Person went to hospital and was treated in the emergency room, but not admitted)
- No. of Major (Person admitted to hospital. Includes person admitted for observation. This could be either life threatening or non-life threatening)
- No. of Fatal (Person killed immediately or within 30 days of the motor vehicle collision)
- Latitude and longitude
Contact: Transportation Data Collection & Analytics