Traffic deaths (FARS)
A census of fatal motor vehicle crashes on U.S. public roads, compiled by NHTSA from state crash and death records, with one row per crash and a county for every crash that occurred in Idaho.
Publisher
- Organization
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Publisher’s dataset
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)
- File or API used
- https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/<year>/National/FARS<year>NationalCSV.zip
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-nhtsa-fars.py- Methodology
- https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars
Coverage
- Geography
- Nation, states, DC, Idaho counties
- Time coverage
- 2010-2024
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- April 1, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 9, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 1,440 observations, 2010-2024
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic deaths | Persons killed in motor vehicle crashes, from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System's ACCIDENT file. | count |
Caveats
- A death counts in FARS if it occurs within 30 days of a crash on a public road.
- The county recorded is where the crash occurred, not where the person who died lived.
- FARS is a census of fatal motor vehicle crashes compiled from state crash and death records, not a sample.
- The newest year available may be an early release later revised as a final annual file.
Pages built on this dataset
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)”, compiled from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Retrieved September 9, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nhtsa-fars/.
Cite National Highway Traffic Safety Administration directly for the figures themselves.
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