Holiday season 2017: fatal car accidents and deaths
Over the 2017 holiday season, December 23, 2017, to January 1, 2018, 937 people died in 860 fatal car accidents on US roads, 3% fewer than the 965 on the same weekdays around it. It was the eighth most of the nine from 2015 to 2023.
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Holiday season 2017 road deaths in every state
California had the most, 116 deaths, then Florida with 105. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 116 | 110 | 33 |
| Florida | 105 | 100 | 19 |
| Texas | 103 | 89 | 13 |
| Georgia | 42 | 39 | 6 |
| Michigan | 30 | 27 | 6 |
| Missouri | 29 | 26 | 2 |
| Tennessee | 29 | 26 | 3 |
| Arizona | 28 | 28 | 7 |
| North Carolina | 27 | 24 | 3 |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | 23 | 3 |
| Ohio | 25 | 22 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 23 | 22 | 4 |
| Illinois | 23 | 20 | 3 |
| New York | 21 | 19 | 7 |
| Virginia | 20 | 20 | 4 |
| Louisiana | 19 | 16 | 3 |
| Maryland | 19 | 15 | 5 |
| Indiana | 17 | 17 | 3 |
| Mississippi | 17 | 15 | 0 |
| Alabama | 16 | 15 | 3 |
| Oregon | 16 | 13 | 2 |
| Kentucky | 15 | 14 | 2 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | 14 | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| Colorado | 13 | 11 | 1 |
| Washington | 12 | 12 | 2 |
| New Mexico | 12 | 11 | 4 |
| Kansas | 11 | 7 | 0 |
| New Jersey | 10 | 9 | 4 |
| Connecticut | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| Arkansas | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Nevada | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| Utah | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| West Virginia | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Delaware | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Idaho | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Iowa | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Montana | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| South Dakota | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Alaska | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Maine | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Vermont | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 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 2017 fatal car accidents
- How many people died in car crashes on the holiday season 2017?
- 937 people died in 860 fatal crashes on US roads over the 2017 holiday season, December 23, 2017, to January 1, 2018, 3% fewer than the 965 on the same weekdays around it. Of them, 157 were pedestrians. Source: NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
- Which state had the most road deaths on the holiday season 2017?
- California, with 116 deaths. In 50 of 51 states and DC at least one person died on the roads.
- Was the holiday season 2017 deadlier than usual?
- 937 road deaths was the eighth 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 2017 numbers come from
Every fatal crash NHTSA dated from December 23 to January 1 in 2017 into 2018, 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.