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Causes of Accidents by Severity of Injury Sustained

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:01 SGT

SPF (Singapore Police Force)

Note: One accident may have multiple causes.

Chart (Breakdown by Severity of Injuries)

Data explorer

CausesofAccidentsbySeverityofInjurySustained.csv (328 rows, 24.5 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Accident classification Text	Road user group Text	Causes of accident Text	Number of accidents Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)12.8%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Failing to Keep a Proper Lookout	59
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Failing to Have Proper Control	50
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Failing to Give Way to Traffic with Right of Way	9
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Changing Lane without Due Care	6
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Disobeying Traffic Light Signals Resulting in Accidents with Vehicle	9
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Turning Without Due Care	2
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Driving under the Influence of Alcohol	3
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Overtaking without Due Care	1
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Following Too Close to Vehicle In Front	1
2012	FATAL	Drivers, Riders or Cyclists	Turning Vehicle & Failing to Give Way to Pedestrian During Green Man	4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Accident classification	accident_classification	Text	-	-
Road user group	road_user_group	Text	-	-
Causes of accident	causes_of_accident	Text	-	-
Number of accidents	number_of_accidents	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d085ce60a604f938aff6779ed08a106a"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Police Force. (2015). Causes of Accidents by Severity of Injury Sustained (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d085ce60a604f938aff6779ed08a106a/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

21 May 2015

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SPF (Singapore Police Force)