Terms of Use
Acceptance of Terms
By accessing and using PlainRoadSafety ("the Site"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please do not use the Site.
Purpose and Intended Use
PlainRoadSafety provides US road fatality data from the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for informational and research purposes only. The data is intended to help researchers, policymakers, journalists, and the public understand road safety trends.
Data Accuracy
While we strive to present accurate data, PlainRoadSafety makes no warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of the information provided. All data is sourced from publicly available federal datasets and is subject to the limitations of those sources.
Users should not rely solely on this site for critical decisions. For official data, please refer to the NHTSA FARS database.
Limitation of Liability
PlainRoadSafety, its operators, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of or inability to use the Site or the data presented on it. This includes, without limitation, any errors or omissions in the data.
Permitted Use
You may use the data presented on this site for personal, educational, and research purposes. You may cite and reference data from this site with appropriate attribution. Systematic scraping, bulk downloading, or redistribution of the site's compiled data without permission is prohibited.
Third-Party Services
The Site uses third-party services including Cloudflare (CDN and security), Google AdSense (advertising), Google Analytics (traffic measurement), and Umami (privacy-focused analytics). Your use of the Site is also subject to those services' respective terms.
Advertising
The Site displays advertisements through Google AdSense. Advertisements are served by third parties and are not endorsed by PlainRoadSafety. We are not responsible for the content of advertisements or the products and services they promote.
No Professional Advice
Nothing on this site constitutes legal, safety, engineering, or professional advice. Road safety decisions should be made in consultation with qualified professionals and official government resources.
Modifications
We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time. Continued use of the Site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
Contact
Questions about these terms can be directed to legal@plainroadsafety.com.
Data Accuracy and Verification
PlainRoadSafety aggregates and reformats information that originates from public government agencies, regulatory filings, and other openly available sources. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data, upstream records may contain clerical errors, lag behind real-world changes, or omit relevant context. You are solely responsible for verifying any fact that influences a legal, medical, financial, educational, safety, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official source before acting on anything you read here.
Acceptable Use
You may browse, read, and share PlainRoadSafety content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific records with attribution and a link back to the page on plainroadsafety.com. You may not (a) systematically scrape, crawl, or download the dataset in bulk without prior written permission; (b) resell, sublicense, or redistribute derived data products that compete with PlainRoadSafety; (c) use our pages to harass, defame, or misrepresent any individual or organization appearing in the data; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass rate limits, security controls, or authentication mechanisms.
Editorial Process
PlainRoadSafety combines raw public data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. Narrative sections are drafted by our editorial team from source data and reviewed before publication. We do not alter underlying numbers or filings, those are loaded directly from the upstream source. If you spot a summary that misreads the data, please email the correction link on our contact page.
Intellectual Property
The underlying public records surfaced on PlainRoadSafety are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed by the issuing agency, you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of PlainRoadSafety. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time to reflect changes in our data sources, product features, legal environment, or advertising relationships. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, when appropriate, surface a brief notice on the homepage. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically.
Governing Law and Disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the jurisdiction in which PlainRoadSafety is domiciled, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to your use of PlainRoadSafety will first be addressed through good-faith informal negotiation. If that fails, both parties agree to resolve the dispute in the courts with jurisdiction over PlainRoadSafety's principal place of business. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer-protection rights under applicable local law.
Legal Notices
For formal legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, subpoenas, law-enforcement requests, or correspondence regarding these terms, email legal@plainroadsafety.com. General questions, data corrections, and feedback should use the contact page so they reach the editorial team promptly.
Every figure on PlainRoadSafety is computed directly from NHTSA FARS census data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.