Instructions:

Collect and record where the vulnerable user was traveling from, and what their intended destination was.

Definition:

The indication of whether the vulnerable user was walking/cycling/traveling to/from school, a transit location, an ice cream/food truck, a delivery truck, a mailbox, or a school bus/school bus stop

Rationale:

This element is used to identify behavioral concerns, inform law enforcement and legislative activities, and to measure infrastructure design programs.

CodeAttributeDefinitionExample
1Going to or from School (K-12)Used when, immediately prior to the crash, the vulnerable user was going to or from school for any reason. Examples include normal school attendance, school dance, sports practice, or extracurricular activities. This attribute includes students (pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade) or an adult supervising students.Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Children loading onto a school bus
2Going to or from TransitUsed for any vulnerable user approaching or departing a transit vehicle or facility (e.g., bus stop, train station).Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Adults getting onto a city bus
3Going to or from an Ice Cream or Food TruckUsed for any vulnerable user traveling to or from a parked mobile food vendor.Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Children standing at an ice cream truck
4Going to or from a Delivery VehicleUsed for any vulnerable user entering, exiting, walking to, or walking from a delivery vehicle, while delivering goods or parcels.Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Man unloading truck outside of a business
5Going to or from a MailboxUsed for any vulnerable user traveling to or from a mailbox.Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Man reading his mail while standing in front of his house outdoors
6Going to or from a School Bus or a School Bus StopUsed for any vulnerable user walking to or from a school bus or designated school bus stop location.Vulnerable User Origin/Destination - Children getting off of a school bus
97OtherUsed for any other origin or destination for the vulnerable user. Please specify in the report narrative.
99UnknownUsed when the vulnerable user’s origin or destination is unknown.

Accuracy Checks

  • If this field is completed, confirm the Vulnerable User check box is also indicated.
  • Use Other (97) only when the narrative establishes a trip purpose that none of the listed options covers, and describe it in the narrative.
  • Going to or from Transit (2) covers walking to or from a bus stop, station or platform.
  • Unknown (99) means the officer could not determine the trip purpose; it is not a substitute for Other.

Other Related Fields

Vulnerable User Location; Vulnerable User Type

Data Quality Audit Results

2025 recordsCountPercent
Acceptable2,52261.0%
Unknown98923.9%
Empty62315.1%
Invalid00.0%
Total4,134100%

For the Vulnerable User Origin/Destination field, 61 percent of 2025 records carry a value, but almost all of that is Other: 1,924 records, 47 percent of the total, against just 598 that name one of the listed origins. A further 24 percent are Unknown and 15 percent empty. Taken together, about 85 percent of records say nothing specific about where the person was coming from or going to. Among the records that do, the most common answers are going to or from transit (344) and going to or from school (163). The pattern suggests the listed options are narrower than the trips officers actually encounter.

From the 2025 Vulnerable User data quality audit. This field was not part of the narrative comparison, so the table reports completeness only. Its total is 4,134 rather than the 4,098 on the seven core field pages because it was tabulated later in 2026, after 36 more 2025 reports had been finished.