The Road Ledger by AZ Law Now

Cited Arizona traffic-fatality findings for reporters. Copy a sourced sentence, with a methodology link on every card.

The Road Ledger hands you cited, source-linked Arizona traffic-fatality data, ready to paste into your story. Every card is one clear finding: a rate or a count, the number of crashes behind it, and the years it covers. Pick a copy format and paste. No spreadsheet to build and no call to make first. WHO IT'S FOR Built for the city desk chasing a same-day crash story, the transportation reporter tracking a road project or a dangerous-intersection debate, the public-safety reporter working a follow-up, and the data reporter who wants a citable number without pulling a raw federal file and building the math themselves. Researchers and academics use it as a fast, sourced starting point before a deeper pull of their own. If your beat touches Arizona's roads in any way, this gets you a defensible number on deadline. WHAT YOU GET Every geography level: statewide totals, county-level rates, metro comparisons, and named corridors, the specific stretch of road your story is actually about. Every major crash category: pedestrian fatalities, bicycle fatalities, motorcycle fatalities, truck and commercial-vehicle crashes, impaired and DUI-related fatalities, intersection crashes, speeding-related fatalities, teen-driver crashes, and senior-driver crashes. Filter to the category your story needs and get a finding built for that exact angle. Five copy-ready formats: a plain sentence, an attributed sentence, an HTML snippet with a working link, Markdown, and a pull-quote block for a call-out box. Pick the shape your outlet's CMS wants. A link to the full methodology and underlying source data behind every number, so an editor or a fact-checker can verify it in one click. A one-click request button for a city, corridor, category, or time window we haven't published yet. It opens your own email client, pre-filled, so the ask lands with us directly. Nothing to sign up for. THE HONEST PART This is fatal-crash data. It doesn't cover injury crashes, so every number here measures traffic deaths, not all traffic incidents. Each finding names its sample size so you can judge it at a glance, and any figure built on a small sample says so right on the card. We don't publish a number we can't stand behind. If a category doesn't have enough data to support a defensible finding in a given place, the card says so instead of guessing. HOW IT WORKS Open the tool, filter by place or category, and read the finding. Click a copy-format tab to preview the exact text, then copy it. The HTML and Markdown formats carry the source link with the sentence, so your citation travels with your copy. No account, no login, no waiting on a callback. PRIVACY The Road Ledger collects nothing. It makes no network calls beyond loading its own data, asks for zero browser permissions, and sends nothing anywhere unless you choose to email us yourself through the request button. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Where does the data come from? Crash counts trace to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the federal government's nationwide census of fatal motor vehicle crashes. Population figures used to calculate per-capita rates come from the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program. Every score is our own computation from these two public sources, not a repackaged table, and the full derivation is disclosed on the linked methodology page. Is it free? Yes. No cost, no signup, no account. What areas does it cover? Arizona, from statewide numbers down to individual counties, metro areas, and named corridors. Does it cover injury crashes? No. This is fatal-crash data only. If your story needs injury or all-crash figures, say so in a request and we'll tell you plainly whether we can help. Can I request data you haven't published yet? Yes. The request button opens a pre-filled email in your own mail client for a city, corridor, category, or time window we don't currently have live. There's no form to fill out on our end. What do I have to install or sign up for? Nothing beyond the extension itself. It asks for zero browser permissions and makes no network calls beyond loading its own bundled data. Can I use these numbers directly in a published story? Yes, that's the point. Every copy format includes attribution and a working link back to the source page, so your citation is complete the moment you paste it. Built by AZ Law Now for the reporters who cover Arizona's roads.