Analyzing data and creating visualizations about streets in Denver, Colorado, USA.
This chart shows the number of deadly crashes that have happened as a running total within each year.
It shows that deadly crashes stopped at the onset of the pandemic in 2020 (green line). But in 2021 and 2022, deadly crashes started happening much more frequently.
The data comes from the "Traffic Accidents" dataset maintained by the City of Denver: https://denvergov.org/opendata/dataset/city-and-county-of-denver-traffic-accidents
To be included in this dataset, the crash must have:
- Occurred in the city of Denver since Jan 1, 2013
- Involved at least one vehicle eligible for a license plate
- Examples of a crashes not included is one where an RTD train hits a pedestrian, or a crash where a person on a bike hits another person on a bike
See the file sql/query_examples.sql for some example queries.