Database Purpose and Funding

The California Crash Data Dashboard (Dashboard) is part of the implementation of California’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide traffic safety professionals and stakeholders, including partner agencies of the SHSP committee, with direct access to crash collision data to support data-driven analysis and tracking of key performance indicators and categories identified in the SHSP. The Dashboard allows for customized filtering and tracking based on primary data characteristics. The data can be further filtered to examine and analyze the progress of the Strategic Action Items identified in the SHSP as “Challenge Areas”. The Dashboard provides organization, facilitation, data analysis and technical assistance to the State of California for the evaluation, development, execution, and reporting of the SHSP, action plans, outputs, outcomes and countermeasures, and allows the State of California to make recommendations to ensure the Federal requirements are met.

The development of the Dashboard was funded by the Highway Safety Improvement Program, pursuant to Agreement Number 51A0502, approved on July 12, 2018.

SHSP, HSIP, and Title 23 of the United States Code

The Dashboard, including this website and the information accessed through this website, are components of the SHSP and the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). The Dashboard was created for the purpose of developing, identifying, evaluating and planning the safety enhancement of potential accident sites, hazardous roadway conditions or railway-highway crossings, pursuant to sections 130, 144, and 148 of Title 23 of the United States Code and for the purpose of developing highway safety construction improvement projects which may be implemented utilizing Federal-aid highway funds.

The data contained within this website, and any reports, surveys, schedules or lists generated from this data, are protected by 23 U.S.C. § 148(h)(4) and 23 U.S.C. § 407 (formerly 23 U.S.C. § 409). They are neither subject to discovery nor admissible as evidence in any Federal or State court proceeding arising from any occurrence at a location identified, mentioned or addressed in such reports, surveys, schedules, lists or data. The State of California expressly reserves all rights and privileges and neither this Dashboard, the data within it, nor any reports, lists or other information generated by it constitute waivers of sections 148(h)(4), 407 (formerly 23 U.S.C. § 409), or any other applicable privileges.

California Public Records Act

The access and use of the Dashboard (including this website and all information accessed through this website) does not constitute a request for information under the California Public Records Act (“CPRA”) (Gov. Code § 6250, et seq.) and any information accessed via this website is not provided as a response to a CPRA request.

License Agreement and Limitation of Liability

This Dashboard may include information that is still in draft form, pending further investigation, potentially reported inaccurately by third parties, out of date or otherwise unreliable. The State of California, Department of Transportation, specifically disclaims any warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The software provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and the State of California, Department of Transportation has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements or modifications. It is presented here for informational use only and should not to be relied upon in any way as a replacement for traffic surveillance analysis based on the State of California, Department of Transportation’s accident surveillance, reporting, monitoring and/or investigation systems.

No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third-party rights, title and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the State of California, or its employees or agents.

This website has links to sites that may be useful to you and may provide services. When you link to another website, you are no longer on our website and are subject to the privacy policy of the new website.

This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features and for comparable purposes. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring.

Unauthorized attempts to modify any information stored on this system, defeat or circumvent security features or utilize this system for any use other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.

These terms of use for the Dashboard are subject to change without notice.