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.
