Michigan Traffic Crash Facts Website Wins Award

Posted 09/14/2007
The Michigan Traffic Crash Facts website, which UMTRI staff created and maintains, won the 2007 Best Traffic Records Web Site Award from the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals.

The Michigan Traffic Crash Facts (MTCF) website, created and maintained for the Michigan State Police Office of Highway Safety Planning by UMTRI, has added a new data tool that allows displaying query results geographically with maps. This new feature helped the website to win the 2007 Best Traffic Records Web Site Award from the Association of Transportation Safety Information Professionals (ATSIP) of the National Safety Council.

The UMTRI team that designed, developed, and maintains the MTCF website includes (left to right, standing): Helen Spradlin, Robert Schultz, Mary Bennett, Charlie Compton, Mary Helen Eschman, Anne Matteson, and Bob Kennedy, and (left to right, in photos): Chris DiVirgilio, Andy Matteson, and Margaret Bennett. Charlie received the award on behalf of the UMTRI and Steve Schreier's team from the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning on July 24 at a ceremony in St. Louis, Missouri. The website also won the ATSIP award in 2005.

The site, which previously allowed displaying data (at the crash, vehicle, or person levels) in table formats, now also displays data, for the years 2004-2006, graphically as points on a map.

The site provides a yearly compilation and analysis of Michigan crash data for government agencies, researchers, libraries, the media, and the public. The data is provided by the Michigan Department of State Police from its Michigan Traffic Crash Forms (UD-10).

• See the MTCF website
• See the new data query tool at the MTCF website