With services like Google Maps, finding the fastest route from A to B has become quick, cheap, and easy. Not just for driving but walking, cycling and public transport too. But in the field of transport studies, we often want not only a single route, but thousands or millions of routes.

Introduction stats19 is a new R package enabling access to and working withGreat Britain’s official road traffic casualty database,STATS19. We started the package in late 2018 following three main motivations: The release of the 2017 road crash statistics, which showedworsening road safety in some areas, increasing the importance ofmaking the data more accessible.