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    • NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) - Investigations - Monthly Defect Investigations Reports (last 6 months)

    Metadata Updated: May 1, 2024

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the right to investigate reports of defective products. Information about defective products can come from manufacturers, consumers or law enforcement agencies. NHTSA stores defect investigation information in a database. It uses this information to generate monthly defect reports. It also makes this information available to consumers through the NHTSA web site. You can search for defect investigation information for the following product categories: - Vehicles - Equipment - Child Restraints - Tires

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

    Collection

    This dataset is part of the following collection:

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/folders/Investigations/INV.txt

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date May 1, 2024
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date May 1, 2024
    Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier 84.2
    Data First Published 2002-12-16
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2024-05-01
    Category Transportation
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D
    Agencydataseriesurl http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/folders/Investigations/FLAT_INV.zip
    Agencyprogramurl http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/index.cfm
    Analysisunit Vehicles , Tires, Child Safety Seats, Equipment
    Bureau Code 021:18
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categorydesignation Research
    Collectioninstrument Transportation
    Collection Package Id 3d6c17f4-c92c-4336-a984-70510dc274a7
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/folders/Investigations/INV.txt
    Data Dictionary Type text/plain
    Harvest Object Id 5625fa7d-a4b2-44a5-bc56-03dd78a51652
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/347b-4786
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Phone 202-366-0154
    Primary IT Investment UII 021-777552743
    Program Code 021:000
    Related Documents http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/folders/Investigations/INV.txt
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2193507cae811794585533fd7d160cebeaf8e3fb961d838f520f9c41748f2b6c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal R/1965-01-01/P1D

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