Holiday season 2022: fatal car accidents and deaths
Over the 2022 holiday season, December 23, 2022, to January 1, 2023, 1,137 people died in 1,038 fatal car accidents on US roads, 4% more than the 1,094 on the same weekdays around it. It was the most of the nine from 2015 to 2023.
2021 · 2023 · Every year together, day by day and state by state.
Holiday season 2022 road deaths in every state
Florida had the most, 126 deaths, then California with 122. 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 | 126 | 109 | 26 |
| California | 122 | 115 | 38 |
| Texas | 110 | 96 | 20 |
| North Carolina | 55 | 51 | 6 |
| Georgia | 51 | 47 | 11 |
| Tennessee | 43 | 39 | 9 |
| New York | 42 | 39 | 10 |
| Arizona | 38 | 34 | 5 |
| Illinois | 36 | 33 | 7 |
| South Carolina | 35 | 32 | 7 |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | 28 | 9 |
| Ohio | 28 | 20 | 3 |
| Virginia | 25 | 23 | 4 |
| Michigan | 24 | 23 | 10 |
| Louisiana | 24 | 19 | 5 |
| Alabama | 23 | 23 | 2 |
| Colorado | 20 | 20 | 5 |
| Mississippi | 20 | 20 | 2 |
| Missouri | 20 | 20 | 3 |
| Oregon | 20 | 16 | 2 |
| Maryland | 18 | 18 | 5 |
| New Jersey | 18 | 17 | 6 |
| Indiana | 17 | 16 | 2 |
| Nevada | 17 | 13 | 8 |
| Arkansas | 16 | 15 | 3 |
| Washington | 14 | 14 | 5 |
| Connecticut | 14 | 12 | 4 |
| Kansas | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| Kentucky | 10 | 10 | 3 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| West Virginia | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| Delaware | 8 | 6 | 3 |
| New Mexico | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| Minnesota | 6 | 6 | 2 |
| Iowa | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| Utah | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Maine | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| Montana | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| South Dakota | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Alaska | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Hawaii | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Idaho | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Vermont | 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 2022 fatal car accidents
- How many people died in car crashes on the holiday season 2022?
- 1,137 people died in 1,038 fatal crashes on US roads over the 2022 holiday season, December 23, 2022, to January 1, 2023, 4% more than the 1,094 on the same weekdays around it. Of them, 244 were pedestrians. Source: NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
- Which state had the most road deaths on the holiday season 2022?
- Florida, with 126 deaths. In 50 of 51 states and DC at least one person died on the roads.
- Was the holiday season 2022 deadlier than usual?
- 1,137 road deaths was the most of the nine from 2015 to 2023; the average is 1,022.
Where the the holiday season 2022 numbers come from
Every fatal crash NHTSA dated from December 23 to January 1 in 2022 into 2023, 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.