Fatal and serious injury crashes are not “accidents” and are preventable. The City of Tempe is committed to reducing the number of fatal and serious injury crashes to zero. This data page provides details about the performance measure related to High Severity Traffic Crashes as well as access to the data sets and any supplemental data. The Engineering and Transportation Department uses this data to improve safety in Tempe.This data includes vehicle/vehicle, vehicle/bicycle and vehicle/pedestrian crashes in Tempe. The data also includes the type of crash and location. This layer is used in the related Vision Zero story map, web maps and operations dashboard. Time ZonesPlease note that data is stored in Arizona time which is UTC-07:00 (7 hours behind UTC) and does not adjust for daylight savings (as Arizona does not partake in daylight savings). The data is intended to be viewed in Arizona time. Data downloaded as a CSV will appear in UTC time and in some rare circumstances and locations, may display online in UTC or local time zones. As a reference to check data, the record with incident number 2579417 should appear as Jan. 10, 2012 9:04 AM.Please note that 2023 data are incomplete and will be updated as additional records become available. Data are complete through 6/30/2023. This page provides data for the High Severity Traffic Crashes performance measure. The performance measure page is available at 1.08 High Severity Traffic CrashesAdditional InformationSource: Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)Contact (author): Shelly SeylerContact (author)  E-Mail: Shelly_Seyler@tempe.govContact (maintainer): Julian DresangContact (maintainer) E-Mail: Julian_Dresang@tempe.govData Source Type: CSV files and Excel spreadsheets can be downloaded from ADOT websitePreparation Method: Data is sorted to remove license plate numbers and other sensitive informationPublish Frequency: semi-annuallyPublish Method: ManualData Dictionary