About Live Accident Tracker

Our mission

Every 26 seconds, someone dies on the world's roads. Rail, aviation, maritime and industrial accidents add thousands more lives each year. Yet this constant global toll is strangely invisible — reported locally, forgotten quickly, never seen as a whole.

Live Accident Tracker exists to make it visible. We monitor accident coverage across the world's news media around the clock, plot it live on a world map, maintain per-country tracking pages for 195 countries, and preserve the history of the disasters that changed the world.

What we publish

• Live tracking — a real-time world map of accident reports, refreshed every 15 minutes, with every report linked to its original news source.
• Country pages — dedicated live tracking and safety profiles for every country.
• Statistics — running estimated tolls for the current year, clearly labelled as WHO-based statistical projections.
• History — a curated archive of the deadliest accidents ever recorded.
• Articles — researched guides on accident statistics and safety.

Our data standards

We never invent incidents, never present estimates as confirmed counts, and never publish graphic imagery. Live data comes from the GDELT Project's global news monitoring; statistical baselines come from the World Health Organization and UN population data. Our full methodology is public: how our tracking works.

Who runs this site

Live Accident Tracker is an independent, self-funded data project launched in August 2026. It is built and maintained by a small editorial and engineering team, not by an insurer, law firm or government body, and it carries no sponsored rankings. The site runs as an automated pipeline with human review: software gathers and classifies reports every 15 minutes; people decide what gets published as an article, correct attribution errors, and verify the reference datasets (driving laws, emergency numbers) against official sources.

Where every number comes from

• Live reports — the GDELT Project's global news monitoring, supplemented by GNews; every headline links to its original publisher and is never rewritten.
• Estimated counters — WHO Global Status Report on Road Safety death rates applied to UN population figures; always labelled "estimated".
• Trends — World Bank yearly series (2000–2019); official crash maps — city open-data portals (NYC, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Montgomery County) and the UK Department for Transport's STATS19; US states — NHTSA FARS via IIHS; aviation — NTSB; disasters — GDACS; vehicle tools — NHTSA recalls, complaints and crash-test ratings.
• City placement — GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) coordinates when a headline names a city.

The full method, including what we deliberately do not do, is on the methodology page.

Editorial standards

• Report counts are news reports, never presented as death tolls; death tolls quoted in auto-generated articles are the figures stated in the source headline and are marked as developing.
• An automatically generated article is only published when the headline itself names the country and states a toll of eight or more; everything else waits for a human.
• Every article shows its publication date, the update date when edited, and a byline; every dataset shows its year and source.
• No graphic imagery, no victim identification beyond what the original outlet published, no invented incidents.

Corrections

If a report is attributed to the wrong country, a statistic is wrong, or an article should be taken down, email admin@liveaccidenttracker.com with the page URL. Attribution errors are fixed within one working day and the article's update date changes when it is edited.

How to cite

Live Accident Tracker (2026). [Page title]. https://liveaccidenttracker.com/… (accessed [date]). Underlying data: WHO / World Bank / NHTSA / DfT as noted on the page.

Datasets are free to reuse with attribution — see download data.

Contact

Corrections, data questions or partnership inquiries: contact us or admin@liveaccidenttracker.com.