The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) compiles statistics about road traffic deaths in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. The yearly mortality counts for 2010 and 2018 are given in crash according to whether the accident occured during daytime or nighttime, and according to the NHTSA-defined geographic area.

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Format

A data frame of 40 observations (long format) containing the following five variables:

year

factor giving the reference year, either 2010 or 2018

region

factor for the geographic regions defined by NHTSA

popn

integer, total estimated population of the region based on census data

time

factor indicating the time of the accident, day or night

ndeath

integer, the number of death in car accidents

Source

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)