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Self-Driving Crash Data

Name: Self-driving vehicle crashes reported to NHTSA, one row per crash
Creator: Driverless Daily
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Every self-driving crash reported to NHTSA, one row per crash, as a CSV you are free to use, copy and publish under CC-BY-4.0 with a credit. It is the table behind the crash tracker.

Download

/crashes/incidents.csv

3,056 crashes, July 2021 to September 2026. Updated October 30, 2026; refreshed monthly, the day after NHTSA's release on the 15th. Any origin may fetch it.

curl -sL "https://driverlessdaily.com/crashes/incidents.csv" -o av-crashes.csv

How it is made

From NHTSA's two files of crash reports for automated driving systems: the archive (July 2021 to June 2025) and the reports filed under the 2025 amended order.
Only the newest version of each report is kept.
Reports of the same crash, from updates or from more than one company, are merged into one row using NHTSA's Same Incident ID. The row describes the crash as the operating company reported it, and carries the most serious injury any of its reports alleges.
Company names are merged across their spellings (“Waymo LLC”, “Waymo, LLC.”), and a crash a fleet partner reported is credited to the company operating the vehicle.
Reports whose newest version says a driver-assistance system, not an automated driving system, was engaged are left out (15 in the latest import). NHTSA publishes those crashes in its separate Level 2 file.
Narratives, vehicle identification numbers, street addresses and coordinates are never copied, though NHTSA publishes some of them.

Columns

Column	What it holds
`incident_key`	NHTSA's Same Incident ID: one crash, however many reports it got.
`report_ids`	The NHTSA report IDs folded into this crash, space-separated.
`report_count`	How many reports (from one or more companies) describe this crash.
`incident_month`	Year and month of the crash (NHTSA publishes no exact date).
`operator`	The company operating the vehicle, as a short key.
`operator_name`	The same company's name, with spelling variants merged.
`reporting_entities`	Who filed the reports, as NHTSA lists them.
`make`	Vehicle make, as reported.
`model`	Vehicle model, as reported.
`model_year`	Vehicle model year, when given.
`city`	City of the crash.
`state`	Two-letter state code.
`roadway_type`	Street, intersection, highway, parking lot and so on.
`crash_with`	What the vehicle hit, in NHTSA's words.
`partner`	The same, grouped: vehicle, cyclist, pedestrian, other_road_user, object, animal, other, unknown.
`severity`	Most serious injury any report alleges: fatal, serious, moderate, minor, none or unknown.
`severity_reported`	That injury level in NHTSA's wording.
`movement`	What the automated vehicle was doing just before (stopped, proceeding straight, turning…).
`was_stationary`	true when it was stopped or parked.
`speed_mph`	Its speed before the crash, in mph, when reported.
`driver_type`	Who could drive: driverless, safety_driver, remote, consumer or unknown.
`dataset`	archive (July 2021 to June 2025) or current (the 2025 amended order).
`license`	CC-BY-4.0 for this cleaned table; NHTSA's own files are public domain.

Credit

The cleaned table is licensed under CC-BY-4.0. Credit it as “Driverless Daily crash tracker (https://driverlessdaily.com/crashes), from NHTSA Standing General Order data”. NHTSA's own files are U.S. government works in the public domain.

How to read these numbers

A count is not a rate. A company that drives more miles reports more crashes. NHTSA does not publish the miles behind these reports, so nothing here is divided by distance, and a longer bar does not mean a less safe car.
Being in a crash is not causing it. The reports do not assign fault, and many of these crashes happened while the self-driving vehicle was stopped or parked, often hit from behind.
Companies file these reports themselves. NHTSA publishes them as filed: they may be incomplete or unverified, injuries are as alleged, and some details are withheld as confidential business information.
One crash, one row. A crash can get several reports, from updates or from more than one company (an operator and its fleet partner); we count it once, using NHTSA's own incident ID.
The rules changed in June 2025. NHTSA amended what must be reported and when, so counts before and after that month are not directly comparable.
Driver assistance is not here. Crashes with systems like Tesla Autopilot or GM Super Cruise in customers' cars are a separate NHTSA dataset with different rules. 15 reports filed in the self-driving file that name a driver-assistance system are left out.