Holiday season 2015: fatal car accidents and deaths
Over the 2015 holiday season, December 23, 2015, to January 1, 2016, 960 people died in 849 fatal car accidents on US roads, 1% more than the 951 on the same weekdays around it. It was the seventh most of the nine from 2015 to 2023.
2016 · Every year together, day by day and state by state.
Holiday season 2015 road deaths in every state
Florida had the most, 105 deaths, then Texas with 91. In 50 of 51 states and DC at least one person died; a 0 is a real count of none. One year's counts are too small to rank states by; every year together ranks them per resident.
| State | Deaths | Fatal crashes | Pedestrians |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 105 | 94 | 21 |
| Texas | 91 | 85 | 16 |
| California | 90 | 80 | 23 |
| Georgia | 44 | 40 | 9 |
| Tennessee | 38 | 31 | 4 |
| Illinois | 37 | 28 | 3 |
| New Jersey | 29 | 28 | 10 |
| Ohio | 28 | 25 | 4 |
| Alabama | 27 | 22 | 5 |
| Indiana | 26 | 20 | 1 |
| North Carolina | 25 | 24 | 6 |
| Kentucky | 24 | 20 | 2 |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | 22 | 4 |
| South Carolina | 23 | 20 | 3 |
| Michigan | 22 | 20 | 7 |
| Oregon | 21 | 17 | 3 |
| Virginia | 20 | 20 | 4 |
| New York | 19 | 19 | 8 |
| Maryland | 19 | 18 | 4 |
| Louisiana | 17 | 17 | 4 |
| Arizona | 17 | 14 | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | 16 | 3 |
| Mississippi | 16 | 13 | 3 |
| Missouri | 14 | 12 | 2 |
| New Mexico | 14 | 12 | 2 |
| Washington | 12 | 12 | 4 |
| Colorado | 12 | 10 | 2 |
| Utah | 12 | 10 | 1 |
| Minnesota | 12 | 9 | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 9 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| Nevada | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| Arkansas | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| Kansas | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| Connecticut | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Iowa | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| West Virginia | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Maine | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Delaware | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Alaska | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Idaho | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| South Dakota | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Vermont | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Montana | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| North Dakota | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2024 Annual Report File (released April 2026, subject to revision). How we count
Questions about the holiday season 2015 fatal car accidents
- How many people died in car crashes on the holiday season 2015?
- 960 people died in 849 fatal crashes on US roads over the 2015 holiday season, December 23, 2015, to January 1, 2016, 1% more than the 951 on the same weekdays around it. Of them, 177 were pedestrians. Source: NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
- Which state had the most road deaths on the holiday season 2015?
- Florida, with 105 deaths. In 50 of 51 states and DC at least one person died on the roads.
- Was the holiday season 2015 deadlier than usual?
- 960 road deaths was the seventh most of the nine from 2015 to 2023; the average is 1,022. The deadliest was 2022 and the least deadly 2018.
Where the the holiday season 2015 numbers come from
Every fatal crash NHTSA dated from December 23 to January 1 in 2015 into 2016, in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, final file. The normal day is the same weekdays in the weeks before and after, averaged (4 of them this year). How the holiday is counted.