Retrieve Australian Fatal Crash Data — oz_road_fatal

This function pulls data from the Australian Road Deaths Database, specifically, the circumstances of the crash, for example, date, location, crash type.

Usage

oz_road_fatal_crash(source = "stable")

Source

https://bitre.gov.au/statistics/safety/fatal_road_crash_database.aspx

Arguments

source: Character. Either "stable" or "latest".

Value

a dataset (tibble) of fatal crash data

Format: a data frame with 43,345 observations on the following 14 variables.

`crash_id`: An integer, 13 digits, unique to each crash
`state`: Text, Austraian jurisdiction, Abbreviation for each state and territory. QLD = Queensland, NSW = New South Wales, ACT = Australian Capital Territory, VIC = Victoria, TAS = TASMANIA, SA = South Australia, WA = Western Australian, NT = Northern Territory
`date`: Date, Year, Month. This is the date of the crash, but with unknown date (set to 1st)
`month`: Integer, the month of the date of the crash
`year`: Integer, the year of the date of the crash
`weekday`: Text the weekday of the date of the crash
`time`: Time, the time of the date of the crash
`date_time`: POSIXct, the date time of the crash
`n_fatalities`: Integer, number of killed persons in the crash
`crash_type`: Character, Code summarising the type of type of crash. Single, Multiple, or Pedestrian
`bus`: logical - whether a bus was involved in the crash (TRUE) or not (FALSE)
`heavy_rigid_truck`: logical - whether a heavy rigid truck was involved in the crash (TRUE) or not (FALSE)
`articualated_truck`: logical - whether a articulated trucl was involved in the crash (TRUE) or not (FALSE)
`speed_limit`: Integer, posted speed limit at the location of crash

Details

There are two sources of data: data.gov.au and bitre.gov.au. While bitre.gov.au is more up-to-date, there are inconsistencies between the two sources for certain crash records.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
oz_road_fatal_crash
} # }