Annual Road Traffic Injury Databases - Years 2005 to 2023

For each personal injury accident (i.e. an accident on a road open to public traffic, involving at least one vehicle and involving at least one victim requiring treatment), information describing the accident is seized by the police unit (police, gendarmerie, etc.) which intervened at the scene of the accident. These seizures are collected in a sheet entitled ‘Injury Analysis Bulletin’. All these forms constitute the national register of road traffic injuries, known as the ‘BAAC file’, administered by the National Interministerial Observatory for Road Safety (ONISR).

The databases, extracted from the BAAC file, list all road traffic injuries occurring during a specific year in mainland France, in the overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Mayotte since 2012) and in the other overseas territories (Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia and New Caledonia; available only from 2019 in open data) with a simplified description. This includes information on the location of the accident, as provided, as well as information on the characteristics of the accident and its location, the vehicles involved and their victims.

Compared to the aggregated databases 2005-2010 and 2006-2011 currently available on the website www.data.gouv.fr, the databases from 2005 to 2023 are now annual and composed of 4 files (Characteristics – Locations – Vehicles – Users) in csv format.

However, those databases conceal certain specific data relating to users and vehicles and their conduct in so far as disclosure of that data would undermine the protection of the privacy of easily identifiable natural persons or reveal the conduct of such persons, whereas disclosure of that conduct could be detrimental to them (CADA opinion – 2 January 2012).

Warning: Data on the classification of injured persons hospitalised since 2018 cannot be compared to previous years following changes in the seizure process of the police. The indicator ‘injured hospitalised’ has no longer been labelled by the public statistics authority since 2019.

The validity of the statistical operations that can be made from this database depends on the verification methods specific to the field of application of road safety and in particular on a precise knowledge of the definitions relating to each variable used. For any operation, it is important to take note in particular of the structure of the attached BAAC sheet and the guide to using the codification of the road traffic accident analysis bulletin.

It should be noted that a number of indicators from this database are labelled by the public statistics authority (Order of 27 November 2019).
The list is available at: https://www.onisr.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/statistical tools/labelled indicators