NICAR Database Library

Source	U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety
Size	219 MB (all years)
Dates in Collection	1969-2006
Cost: For dataslices, please see our order form	50-200 market or circulation below 50,000: $40 26-50 market or circulation 50,000-100,000: $75 Top 25 market or circulation over 100,000: $115

About the Data:
The 1995-2006 U.S. Recreational Boat Accident Database consists of four relational tables -- PRIME, DEAD, INJURY and VESSEL -- containing data on recreational boating accidents that resulted in death or injury requiring more than first aid. Accidents involving vessel damage of more than $2,000 or disappearance of a person under circumstances that indicate death or injury are also included.

For the first time, the U.S. Coast Guard has declined to give 2005 boating accident data for the state of California - the matter is currently pending an appeal. California is included in all the previous years.

The data files at NICAR cover 1969 through 2006. Between 1994 and 1995, the Coast Guard changed the way the data are broken up into tables and documented.

STORIES AND TIPSHEETS FROM THE IRE RESOURCE CENTER:
To order copies one or more of following stories call the IRE RESOURCE CENTER at 573-882-3364 and give them the FILE NUMBER or TIP SHEET NUMBER. The cost is 15 cents per page for IRE members.

• Story No. 16952: This CAR investigation reveals that boats, inexperience and bad decisions are responsible for Wisconsin's boat accidents. Preliminary data shows that this summer may have been one of the safest years in boating, but officials attribute that to the weather than a trend in safety measures.
• Story No. 20030: Governing reports that "drunken boating kills hundreds of Americans every year. But the logistics of dealing with it aren't easy to handle." The story reveals that DUI laws are difficult to enforce when it comes to boating.
• Story No. 22720: The Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri is the third-most accident-prone waterway in the U.S., after the Atlantic Ocean and the Colorado river, according to U.S. Coast Guard boating accident data from 1995-2004.

• Tipsheet No. 1171: This tipsheet outlines several databases that are helpful for investigating transportation safety.

Record layouts and samples are attached below
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Attachment	Size
Accidents.zip	111.94 KB
Accidentslayouts.zip	12.25 KB