MOBILITY-Body_Accidents_Circulation_2015

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, which is 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 and the overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique, Réunion and Mayotte since 2012) 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] (https://www.data.gouv.fr/), the databases from 2005 to 2015 are now annual and consist 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).