Data Sources for Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Research in North Carolina
The following data sources were identified as key for motor vehicle crash injury research. As part of the Data Documentation for Linking Crash and Health Data in North Carolina project funded by the North Carolina Governor’s Highway Safety Program, the data sources were documented according to a standardized template.
Although the documentation will be updated periodically, please note that the data source may have changed their data and/or documentation after the documentation below was finalized. Some data sources also provide their own data documentation online. Links to the data sources are provided below. Excel versions of the data dictionaries are available upon request.
- Documentation Template
- Flowchart illustrating the source and flow of data sources for motor vehicle crash injury research in North Carolina
Available Online
| Data Source (link to source website) |
Overview | Data Dictionary |
Date Compiled |
| Crash Records from NC Division of Motor Vehicles (posted provisionally) | 1/10/2019 | ||
| Death registration data | 8/21/2018 | ||
| Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) | 9/21/2018 | ||
| Highway Safety Information System data for North Carolina | 7/25/2019 | ||
| North Carolina Trauma Registry | 2/9/2019 | ||
| Sheps Center Hospital claims data | PDF-Emergency Department | 10/16/2018 | |
| Sheps Center Carolina Cost and Quality Initiative | PDF-BCBSNC Claims | 6/4/2019 | |
| UNC Highway Safety Research Center – Pedestrian/Bicyclist data | PDF – Bike | 12/11/2020 |
Available upon request
- Emergency Department visits in NC DETECT
- EMS data in EMSPIC (compiled 9/20/2018)
- Hospital Data at the State Center for Health Statistics (compiled 4/15/2019)
- Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Contact
Erika Redding, MSPH
Project Manager