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Sri Lanka Police Road Accident Statistics - 1979

Sri Lanka, 1979
Reference ID
LKA-DCS-PRAS-1979-v1.0
Producer(s)
Department of Police
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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
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Jan 19, 2023
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Jan 19, 2023
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Action (ACTN1)

Data file: type2

Overview

Valid: 29336
Invalid: 0
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 9
Mean: 5.875
Standard deviation: 3.497
Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 29
End: 29
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
0 688
2.3%
1 Lost control 7160
24.4%
2 On wrong side of road 720
2.5%
3 On crown of road 720
2.5%
4 Failed to signal movement 716
2.4%
5 Too fast in regard to conditions 2579
8.8%
6 Accident followed avoiding action 788
2.7%
7 Collided with street furniture or culvert 639
2.2%
8 Skidded 1314
4.5%
9 No unusual action 14012
47.8%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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