About this directory
A curated reference to authoritative Texas personal-injury and crash data sources — for journalists, researchers, students, and policy writers.
Texas Injury Data Directory is a curated reference to the authoritative sources of Texas personal-injury, crash, fatality, and injury-health data. It is built for people who arrive with a specific question — a journalist checking a fatality figure, a researcher assembling a dataset, a student locating a primary source, a policy writer citing an official statistic — and need to find the right source quickly.
It is a research reference, in the spirit of a university library research guide or a legal-information institute. It is not a blog, a news outlet, or a law firm. There is no advertising, no lead capture, and no advocacy. Every entry points outward to the agency or institution that produces the data; nothing is re-hosted here.
How it is organized
27 sources are sorted into 10 categories, from statewide crash statistics to occupational injury and academic research. Each source has its own page with a plain-language annotation: what it contains, what it is best for, and the caveats to keep in mind before you cite it. Metadata badges — source type, geographic coverage, copyright status, and the year last updated — appear throughout so you can judge a source at a glance.
How to read the badges
- Type — the form of the source: a dataset, an annual report, an interactive query tool, a dashboard, or academic research.
- Coverage — the geography: statewide Texas, a specific metro, or a federal source (with Federal-TX marking federal sources that break out Texas).
- Public domain vs Link out — whether the data is a public-domain government work you may reproduce with attribution, or a source to be accessed and cited only at its origin.
- Updated — the most recent data year or release we have confirmed for the source.
Using the data responsibly
Different sources count the same events differently — a fatality within 30 days of a crash, a hospital admission, a workers-compensation claim — so figures will not always agree. The annotations flag the most common of these differences, but you should always verify a figure against the primary source and note the definition and date behind it before citing it.