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Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Source Data (Form 57)

Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

All impacts between railroad on-track equipment and highway users at a highway-rail grade crossing are reported by railroads to the FRA on Form FRA F 6180.57 Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report.

This dataset is the source dataset and contains raw data values. It replaced the legacy data download (https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/on_the_fly_download.aspx). To download data that contains data in a user-friendly human-readable format, please reference https://data.transportation.gov/Railroads/Highway-Rail-Grade-Crossing-Accident-Data/7wn6-i5b9.

The data dictionary can be found here: https://datahub.transportation.gov/api/views/icqf-xf4w/files/531a212f-6b94-4403-9876-a6933a1469aa?download=true&filename=gxirfile_EFFECTIVE_060111%20(24).pdf.

For information on how to filter and export data, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Download-Export-and-Print-User-Guide/s8hj-vns8/.

To view the data release schedule, please visit: https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Data-Release-Schedule/qfc9-tapk/.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 10, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 10, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/icqf-xf4w
Data First Published 2023-04-03
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2026-04-15
Category Railroads
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 021:27
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 002eaa36-d980-4b05-929e-a751debc2553
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/Highway-Rail-Crossing-Incidents-Landing-Page/9hnw-nt86/
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 021:036
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 844f043dd8765575ef280c401722cd4f82e54df8edc4aff111b3a2408e61ddf6
Source Schema Version 1.1

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