About Fatal Crash Data

Fatal Crash Data shows where, when and how fatal road crashes happen in the United States: every state, the roads and counties with the most, and the recorded factors, counted from the federal record of every fatal crash.

Why the federal crash record is hard to read

NHTSA has recorded every fatal crash on a US public road since 1975 in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System. It is public and complete, and it is a set of coded tables with 80 columns per crash. Someone who wants to know which highway in their state has the most fatal crashes, or whether crashes in their county happen at night, is unlikely to open it.

This site turns that file into pages you can read on a phone: one per state, one per road with enough crashes, one per topic such as drunk driving or pedestrian deaths, with the number first and the tables under it. Every rule on the way from the file to the page is written down on the method page.

Who makes Fatal Crash Data

I'm Markus Green. I build websites, and I like taking data that is public but hard to find and hard to read and putting it in front of the people who need it. I'm not a law firm, an insurer or a government agency, and nobody pays to appear here. If a figure looks wrong, tell me and I'll check it against the source.

What this site does not do

It names no people and tells no crash stories. It gives no legal advice and no risk scores. It shows counts and shares as NHTSA recorded them, and says "Not reported" where NHTSA did. Road safety data, not accident chasing.

Where the figures come from

Every figure comes from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, 2024 Annual Report File, the latest year published; the 2024 figures are from the Annual Report File and may be revised when NHTSA releases the final file. The site is rebuilt each year when NHTSA releases the next file.