Annual Road Traffic Accident Databases — Years 2005 to 2021

For each personal accident (i.e. an accident on a road open to public traffic involving at least one vehicle and having made at least one victim requiring care), seizures of information describing the accident are carried out by the law enforcement unit (police, gendarmerie, etc.) which intervened at the scene of the accident. These seizures are collected in a sheet entitled Analysis Bulletin of Body Accidents. All of these forms constitute the national register of traffic accidents known as the BAAC file administered by the National Interdepartmental Observatory for Road Safety “ONISR”. The databases, extracted from the BAAC file, list all traffic accidents occurring during a specific year in metropolitan France, in the overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Reunion and Mayotte since 2012) and in the other overseas territories (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Wallis-et-Futuna, French Polynesia and New Caledonia; available only from 2019 in open data) with a simplified description. This includes location information of the accident, as well as information about the characteristics of the accident and its location, the vehicles involved and their victims. Compared to the aggregated databases 2005-2010 and 2006-2011 currently available on www.data.gouv.fr, the databases from 2005 to 2021 are now annual and consist of 4 files (Features — Locations — Vehicles — Users) in csv format. However, those databases obscure certain specific data relating to users and vehicles and their behaviour in so far as the disclosure of such data would undermine the protection of the privacy of natural persons who are easily identifiable or would reveal the conduct of such persons, whereas the disclosure of such conduct could be detrimental to them (CADA Opinion — 2 January 2012). Warning: The data on the qualification of a hospitalised injured since the year 2018 cannot be compared to previous years following changes in the seizure process of law enforcement forces. The “hospitalised injury” indicator is no longer labeled by the public statistics authority since 2019. The validity of statistical holdings which can be made from this basis depends on the specific methods of verification in the field of road safety application and in particular on a precise knowledge of the definitions for each variable used. For any operation, it is important to read in particular the structure of the attached BAAC sheet as well as the guide for the use of the codification of the bulletin of analysis of traffic accidents. Recall that a number of indicators from this database are labeled by the public statistics authority (Order of 27 November 2019). The list is available at: https://www.onisr.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/outils-statistiques/indicateurs-labellises