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    Crashes in DC

    Metadata Updated: March 18, 2026

    Crashes on the roadway blocks network of Washington, DC maintained by the District Department of Transportation (DDOT). In addition to locations, a related table consisting of crash details is available for each crash. This table provides some anonymized information about each of the persons involved in the crash (linked by CRASHID). These crash data are derived from the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) crash data management system (COBALT) and represent DDOT's attempt to summarize some of the most requested elements of the crash data. Further, DDOT has attempted to enhance this summary by locating each crash location along the DDOT roadway block line, providing a number of location references for each crash. In the event that location data is missing or incomplete for a crash, it is unable to be published within this dataset.

    Location points with some basic summary statistics,

    • The DC ward the crash occurred
    • Summary totals for: injuries (minor, major, fatal) by type (pedestrian, bicycle, car), mode of travel involved (pedestrian, bicycle, car), impaired participants (pedestrian, bicyclist, car passengers)
    • If speeding was involved
    • Nearest intersecting street name
    • Distance from nearest intersection
    • Cardinal direction from the intersection
       

    Read more at https://ddotwiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GIS0225/pages/2053603429/Crash+Data. Questions on the contents of these layers should be emailed to Metropolitan Police Department or the DDOT Traffic Safety Division. Questions regarding the Open Data DC can be sent to @OpenDataDC
     

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 18, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date March 18, 2026
    Publisher Metropolitan Police Department
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-06-19T13:37:25.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-18T03:33:12.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::crashes-in-dc
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1149,38.8083,-76.9094,38.9948
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6a4980c81d5822cc8b6fe72de0d8dce252bf1600269e482d9cf24083ab873175
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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