Highway Rail Accidents

This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity R/P1M
agencyDataSeriesURL http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx
agencyProgramURL http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/
analysisUnit 57 Filing
bureauCode {021:27}
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categoryDesignation Research
collectionInstrument Transportation
collection_metadata true
dataQuality true
describedBy http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/DownloadFStructure.aspx
identifier DOT-214
issued 2010-09-29
landingPage https://data.transportation.gov/d/ptvy-p3tk
language {en-US}
license http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
modified 2018-12-19
phone 202-493-6483
programCode {021:000}
publisher Federal Railroad Administration
references {https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Newregulation.aspx%3Fdoc=FRAGuideforPreparingAccIncReportspubMay2011.pdf}
resource-type Dataset
source_datajson_identifier true
source_hash 35f1d24244d80bc027bf2a84cd3d4b1b882d4475
source_schema_version 1.1
temporal R/1975-01-31/P1M
theme {Transportation}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • accident
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • casualty
  • ckan
  • crash
  • explosion
  • fatality
  • geo
  • geoss
  • highway
  • incident
  • national
  • north-america
  • rail
  • suicide
  • trespasser
  • united-states
isopen False
license_id us-pd
license_title us-pd
maintainer Robert Siegfried
maintainer_email robert.siegfried@dot.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-21T08:07:29.199943
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T08:07:29.199947
notes This file contains reported cases of impacts between on-track equipment and any user of a public or private highway-rail intersection. National files from 1975 through the current year are available for download. In addition, individual files by State are available for the years 1991 through the current year.
num_resources 1
num_tags 18
title Highway Rail Accidents