Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)

. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the responsibility to collect accident data that support the establishment and enforcement of motor vehicle regulations and highway safety programs. These regulations and programs are developed to reduce the severity of injury and the property damage associated with motor vehicle accidents. The Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is in its thirty-seventh year of operation as a major system that acquires national fatality information directly from existing State files and documents. FARS, census of all fatal motor vehicle traffic accidents in the US and P.R. Data from existing state records is automated for the agency's use in highway and motor vehicle safety problem analysis and evaluation.

The latest form for Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) expires 2022-07-31 and is listed under ICR 201904-2127-002.