Safety Statistics

Safe Communities has the goal of disseminating information regarding safety and crash statistics. Scroll below for details from the past years.

One person was killed every 17.38 days
There were 1.38 persons injured every day
One person was injured every 17.45 hours
Of the drivers involved in crashes, 55.8% are males, 38.7% are females, and 5.5% are gender not stated.
Alcohol impaired drivers were involved in 19% of all fatalities
Of all crashes, 62.4% occurred during the daylight

Property Damage Only (PDO) Crashes	2,473
Fatal Injury Crashes	14
Injury Crashes	750
Total Crashes	3,237

Injury	37
Property Damage Only (PDO)	73
Fatal Injury	3
Total Alcohol-Related Crashes	113
Deaths	3

To check out more in depth statistics for yourself, go to Ohio Department of Public Safety Crash Statistics.

These statistics are provisional.
Last updated on 12/17/2018.

	Drivers killed with known BAC results (0.01 - 0.079)	Drivers killed with BACs > 0.08	Total Drivers Killed
Ohio	67 (6%)	324 (29%)	739
United States	2,017 (5%)	10,497 (28%)	24,851

In 2017, more than 40,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes (National Safety Council).
The three biggest causes of fatalities on the road are alcohol, speeding, and distracted driving (National Safety Council).
Drivers under the age of 20 have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashed (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration).
Every day, 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol impaired driver (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The annual cost of alcohol related crashes totals more than $44 billion (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Find more on the CDC Website.

Updated: 10/18/2021 01:44PM