Traffic crashes in Dover
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Every crash report inside Dover city limits since 2009: date and time, severity, whether a pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, alcohol or drugs were involved, road, light and weather conditions, the main cause the officer recorded, location and City Council district. No names or report numbers.

Published by: Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security
Source: https://data.delaware.gov/d/827n-m6xc
License: Facts only (no license needed for the facts)
Credit line: Crash data from the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security, data.delaware.gov.
Updated: Weekly
Covers: 2009 to now; the state adds reports months after a crash
Area: Crashes whose location falls inside a Dover City Council district. The Dover by the Numbers crashes report counts by the Census city boundary instead, so its yearly totals run about 3 percent higher.

Crash reports as published on Delaware's open data portal: facts about each crash, with no names or report numbers. The portal's terms do not limit reuse. The state notes this is its best available information, not an official record of what happened.

Files
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- crashes.csv and crashes.json: id, crash_datetime, year, severity, pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, alcohol, drugs, school_bus, work_zone, seatbelt_used, impact, road_surface, light, weather, primary_cause, latitude, longitude, district, updated_at

Each file is built from OpenDover's database when you download it. In the CSV files, text that a spreadsheet would
treat as a formula (starting with =, +, @ or -) begins with an apostrophe so it opens as plain text. The JSON files
hold the values exactly.

This copy: 2026-11-08

More: https://opendover.org/data/dover-crashes/
API: https://api.opendover.org/v1/datasets/dover-crashes