Analysis of Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City
Motor vehicle collisions are not an exception, even in cities with an outstanding public transportation system like New York City. By analyzing crash events through 2016-2021, we see that even though the number of collisions has presented a reduction, their dangerousness has dramatically increased, showing a higher number of events where persons were either injured or killed. We detected a slightly positive trend in the number of killed people in motor vehicle crashes; meanwhile, the number of injuries reduces vaguely. Most NYC crash events happen on Fridays, predominately around 5:00 PM. However, the most lethal time (highest number of killed people) is during the weekends’ late-night hours.
Among NYC’s boroughs, Brooklyn is constantly the borough with the largest number of tragic accidents (at least one person injured or killed), where the most predominant contributing factors of these events are: Driver was distracted, the driver was following too closely, failure to yield right-of-way, unsafe speed, and traffic control disregarded.