FARS

Cindie Holub’s death on March 1,  (Cindy’s death was written up on bicyclelaw.com, also see 2010 fatalities), from injuries sustained in a Feb 24 collision with a garbage truck caused me to look up the rule for categorization purposes. “To be included in this census of crashes, a crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public, and must result in the death of a person (occupant of a vehicle or a nonmotorist) within 30 days of the crash.” from DOT HS 811 137.

The US DOT runs a very elaborate, publicly available, query-able database for every traffic fatality in the US called FARS — Fatality Analysis and Reporting System.

There is a web interface that leads the user through building a query, e.g. below is a tabular report for all State=4 (Arizona), and Person Type=6 or 7 (bicyclist or other cyclist) in 2008, 20 cases were found for 19 collisions (this is a slight discrepancy of the reported 19 figure in the official NHTSA state-by-state report).

some handy info can be gleaned, e.g. the gps coordinates for most incidents are listed, you can use google to map it, e.g. 32.81931389, -111.68361944 is the intersection of I-8 and I-10.
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