Data Sources

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Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2024 annual file

• Publisher: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• Dataset page: https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars
• Status: First release of the 2024 FARS annual file (NHTSA release notes dated 2026-04-01). Not a Final File: NHTSA may revise it in later releases. Evidence: FARS Encyclopedia and the release notes in the download package.
• File: FARS2024NationalCSV.zip / accident.csv. Retrieved 2026-11-09.
• Terms: NHTSA Terms of Use (information on the NHTSA site is public information and may be distributed or copied). The NHTSA logo is not used.

County names and codes

• Publisher: U.S. Census Bureau
• Dataset page: https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/codes2020/national_county2020.txt
• Used only to name counties and to match FARS county codes. State codes: state.txt.
• Census Bureau data are US government works.

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