Trends in collisions and traffic mortality rates in Mexico City: A comparison of six data sources.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Improving data quality is an international recommendation to advance road safety. Mexico City has several sources of road safety data which are used interchangeably, no study has analyzed their strengths and limitations.

Objective

We aimed to compare the trends of four indicators (total collision rate, collision resulting in injury rate, fatality rate and mortality rate) across six open access datasets of Mexico City, between 2015-2022, and to discuss their differences, strengths and limitations.

Materials and methods

Datasets consulted were from: police records, emergency calls, an insurance company, the justice department, the Institute for Forensic Science and vital registrations for the period 2015-2022. We descriptively compared rates and their trend

SUBMITTER: Herrera Ortiz ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12503325 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature