Reporting Officer

Instructions: Record your signature and print your name, badge number or ID, department, precinct or barracks, and date. Definition: The personal information of the officer investigating the crash and responsible for completing the crash report form. Rationale: This data element is useful for collection, tracking and analysis. Example Data Quality Audit Results Report Type Acceptable…

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Vehicle Year

Instructions: Enter the car model year as YYYY. Definition: The year that is assigned to a motor vehicle by the manufacturer. Rationale: This element is important for identifying motor vehicle model year for evaluation, research, and crash comparison purposes. Example FAQ Is this information necessary, even on undivided, traditional two-way roads? Yes, all fields related…

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Vehicle Travel Direction

Instructions: Select ‘northbound’, ‘eastbound’, ‘southbound’, or ‘westbound’ as the direction of travel. Definition: The motor vehicle’s travel direction on the roadway prior to the crash. Notice that this is not a compass direction, but a direction consistent with the designated direction of the road. For example, the direction of a State-designated North-South highway must be…

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Responding to Emergency

Instructions: Record ‘yes’/’no’ relative to specific vehicle in crash. Definition: Indicates that the vehicle involved in the crash was an emergency response vehicle—such as police, ambulance, fire, or military vehicles—engaged in responding to a separate emergency incident, utilizing physical emergency signals like flashing lights and sirens, at the time of the crash. Rationale: Important for…

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