Holiday season 2016: fatal car accidents and deaths
Over the 2016 holiday season, December 23, 2016, to January 1, 2017, 1,021 people died in 939 fatal car accidents on US roads, 2% more than the 999 on the same weekdays around it. It was the fifth most of the nine from 2015 to 2023.
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Holiday season 2016 road deaths in every state
Florida had the most, 111 deaths, then California with 103. In 49 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 | 111 | 103 | 25 |
| California | 103 | 97 | 32 |
| Texas | 99 | 90 | 24 |
| North Carolina | 44 | 42 | 7 |
| New York | 38 | 34 | 11 |
| Alabama | 36 | 31 | 4 |
| Virginia | 34 | 34 | 10 |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | 29 | 8 |
| Georgia | 31 | 29 | 6 |
| Indiana | 27 | 25 | 3 |
| Michigan | 27 | 24 | 3 |
| Ohio | 27 | 23 | 2 |
| South Carolina | 26 | 24 | 5 |
| Arizona | 25 | 22 | 6 |
| Louisiana | 23 | 22 | 2 |
| Kentucky | 20 | 18 | 2 |
| Illinois | 19 | 19 | 6 |
| Missouri | 19 | 18 | 2 |
| Mississippi | 19 | 16 | 1 |
| Maryland | 18 | 18 | 5 |
| Arkansas | 18 | 16 | 1 |
| Washington | 18 | 16 | 2 |
| Tennessee | 17 | 15 | 3 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | 15 | 4 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | 13 | 3 |
| Oregon | 15 | 13 | 4 |
| Colorado | 13 | 13 | 1 |
| New Jersey | 12 | 12 | 5 |
| Connecticut | 12 | 11 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 12 | 11 | 2 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| Kansas | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Iowa | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| Maine | 8 | 8 | 1 |
| West Virginia | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| Montana | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Nevada | 7 | 5 | 1 |
| Alaska | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Hawaii | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| New Mexico | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Utah | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Delaware | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Vermont | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Idaho | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Rhode Island | 0 | 0 | 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 2016 fatal car accidents
- How many people died in car crashes on the holiday season 2016?
- 1,021 people died in 939 fatal crashes on US roads over the 2016 holiday season, December 23, 2016, to January 1, 2017, 2% more than the 999 on the same weekdays around it. Of them, 204 were pedestrians. Source: NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
- Which state had the most road deaths on the holiday season 2016?
- Florida, with 111 deaths. In 49 of 51 states and DC at least one person died on the roads.
- Was the holiday season 2016 deadlier than usual?
- 1,021 road deaths was the fifth 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 2016 numbers come from
Every fatal crash NHTSA dated from December 23 to January 1 in 2016 into 2017, 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.