This polygon shapefile represents the type of vehicle causing road or traffic accidents in each of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates for 2005. The vehicle types are classified as private vehicle, taxi, light bus, heavy bus, light goods vehicle, heavy goods vehicle, other heavy vehicle, bicycle, and motorcycle. The original dataset was collected by the UAE government and hosted on Bayanat.ae. It was joined to the UAE administrative district level 1 boundaries from the Global Administrative Areas database by Taylor Hixson in 2018. This dataset is only to be used for academic purposes.