PEDESTRIAN INJURY DATA SOURCES

This information came from the Pedestrian Safety Workshop which took place during the June 16th King County Traffic Safety Coalition Meeting.

If you are at all interested or concerned about pedestrian safety, below is a wealth of Internet resources and data.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

--Washington State DOT collision data: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/accidentannual.htm

--Washington Traffic Safety Commission FARS data: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/ncsa/fars.html#FARSq

--Washington Traffic Safety Commission recent fatality data: http://www.wtsc.wa.gov/research/collisiondata.php.

--King County Medical Examiner's Office: http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/examiner.aspx

--Washington State Trauma Registry: contact Ann Glusker for more information

--State Department of Health Injury page: http://www.doh.wa.gov/Data/Injury.htm

--WISQARS http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html

--Federal Highway Safety Information System data (comes from state data so it may overlap substantially): http://www.hsisinfo.org/hsis.cfm?num=5&page=1

--ATSIP links page http://www.atsip.org/index.php?/atsip/links

--CIREN http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.1c5bf5af32c6dfd24ec86e10dba046a0/

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

--Harborview pedestrian injury publications: http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/pedinj.html

--FeetFirst maps: http://www.feetfirst.info/mapping/index_html

--King County pedestrian fatalities report:
http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/injury/PedestrianReport.aspx

--TRIS (Transportation Research Information Services) website (abstracts and full-text documents on virtually anything transportation related- type in search term “pedestrian”): http://search.bts.gov/tris/searchinput.do

--Washington State Department of Transportation 'Better Decisions Through Better Data':
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/TDOCommunicationPlan.pdf

--Washington State DOT collision data reports: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/accidentannual.htm and
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/PDF_and_ZIP_Files/2006_Annual_Collision_Data_Summary_-_All_Roads.pdf

--Report on King County, “Managing Pedestrian Safety I: Injury Severity” by Anne Vernez Moudon, Lin Lin, and Phil Hurvitz: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/671.1.pdf

DATA CONTACTS/ DATA REQUESTS:
Ann Glusker and Eva Wong
Public Health-Seattle & King County
(206) 296-2776
data.request@kingcounty.gov

Dick Doane
Washington Traffic Safety Commission
(360) 725-9894
ddoane@WTSC.WA.GOV

Geneva Hawkins
Washington State Department of Transportation Collision Data & Analysis
(360) 570-2490
hawking@wsdot.wa.gov

Washington State DOT "Request for Collision Data" form: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/tdo/collisiondatarequest.htm