State
Crash Report Forms Catalog
2002 Update
The State Crash Report Forms Catalog
consolidates crash report forms from all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
The purpose of the Catalog is to provide a comparative
crash data reference document for use by the states, the National Highway
Traffic safety Administration (NHTSA) Headquarters and Region offices,
other Federal agencies, and private organizations and groups.
The Catalog also contains the list of all state coordinators
for the state crash report, the state reporting threshold, and E-mail/Web-Site
addresses of the state crash coordinators.
As an added convenience to our NHTSA customers and partners, the crash
report forms are provided on the Internet. To
visit the "work-in-progress" 2002 update follow this link http://24.123.50.125/crashforms
but note that adobe Acrobat is required to view the forms.
Use of the adobe acrobat zoom function facilitates reading of small
text.
We would like to inform our users that since the state crash report forms
were provided in hard copy, the resolution of some forms, especially those
with detailed graphics, may not be clear.
In some instances, printing the form improves the resolution. We
are striving to obtain electronic versions of the state crash report forms.
This should remedy problems with form resolution.
As crash forms are revised by states and provided to us, we will
include them on the Internet.
NHTSA supports the use of uniform crash report form data elements and
encourages the use of ANSI D-16 and D-20 standards.
The purpose of ANSI-16, Manual On Classification Of Motor Vehicle
Traffic Accidents, is to provide a common language for collectors
and users of traffic crash data.
The purpose of ANSI D-20, Data Element Dictionary For Traffic
Records Systems, is to provide a common set of element coding instructions
as these relate to traffic safety, driver licensing and vehicle registration.
NHTSA in collaboration with the Federal Highway Administration and the
National Association of Governors’ Highway Safety Representatives has
developed a guideline for crash data collection.
To facilitate this effort, an expert panel was formed consisting
of Representatives from law enforcement, Emergency Medical Services, traffic
engineering, departments of motor vehicles, academia, and a number of
private organizations and groups interested in highway and traffic safety.
The guideline is referred to as the Model Minimum Uniform Crash
Criteria (MMUCC). MMUCC
is intended to be a guideline for collecting crash data.
MMUCC is endorsed by a number of highway safety groups and organizations.
The final MMUCC was published in August 1998.
ANSI D16.1-1996 Manual on Classification
of Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents
Download
Final
Guidelines
for Model Minimum Uniform
Crash Criteria
What is MMUCC?
The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) is a minimum set
of crash data elements with standardized definitions that are relevant
to injury control, highway and traffic safety.
Not all of the MMUCC data elements need to be collected by police at the
scene. Instead, some can be created from other data elements, such as
the Vehicle Identification Number, to identify a specific vehicle characteristic.
Or they can be obtained after linkage to other traffic records, such as
injury or roadway inventory data to describe injury outcome or a specific
roadway characteristic.
We wish to thank all
state and local personnel who contributed and assisted in compiling the
Catalog. We hope that it will assist states in improving their crash
data collection and analysis.
