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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · AKRON, OH · 2025
Purpose: Machine-readable JSON endpoint for AI agents, LLMs, researchers, and programmatic consumers. Returns all underlying crash data and AI-generated commentary without HTML.
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/akron/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
5,413 CRASHES IN
AKRON, OH
2025
Akron experienced a slight decrease in total crashes, from 5,523 in the prior year to 5,413 in the current year, marking a 2.0% reduction. Fatalities saw a notable decrease of 31.25%, falling from 16 to 11. Conversely, bicycle crashes increased significantly by 34.62%, rising from 26 to 35.
5,413
▼ -2.0%was 5,523
Total Crash Events
11
▼ -31.3%was 16
Persons Killed
1,743
▼ -4.1%was 1,818
Persons Injured
1,425
▼ -5.6%was 1,509
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (11) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (11) counts crash events where at least one fatality occurred. A single crash can result in multiple fatalities.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall crash trends in Akron show a slight decline year-over-year, with total crashes decreasing by 110 incidents, or 2.0%. This indicates a general downward trend in crash frequency for the period. Total injuries also decreased by 4.12%, from 1,818 to 1,743.
1,425
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▼ -5.6% vs prior (1,509)
Hit-and-run crashes decreased from 1,509 in the prior year to 1,425 in the current year, representing a 5.57% reduction. The hit-and-run rate also saw a decline, moving from 27.3% of total crashes to 26.3%.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
3
Pedestrians Killed
8
Motorists Killed
55
Pedestrians Injured
1,688
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The peak day for crashes remained Friday in both periods, though the number of crashes on Fridays slightly decreased from 913 to 907. The peak hour shifted from 4 p.m. in the prior year (458 crashes) to 3 p.m. in the current year (453 crashes). Wednesday saw an increase in crashes from 843 to 894, while Saturday crashes decreased from 664 to 618.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The fatal crash rate decreased from 0.3% in the prior year to 0.2% in the current year, with total fatalities dropping from 16 to 11. While serious injury crashes (severity A) increased from 84 to 104, their proportion of total crashes rose from 1.5% to 1.9%. Minor injury crashes (severity B) also increased in count from 616 to 640, and their percentage of total crashes slightly increased from 11.2% to 11.8%.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Adverse weather conditions played a more significant role in the current year's crashes, with snow-related crashes increasing from 169 to 435. Similarly, crashes on snowy road surfaces rose from 126 to 388, and on icy surfaces from 37 to 95. Conversely, crashes during clear weather decreased from 3,337 to 3,167, and on dry road surfaces from 4,211 to 3,943.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The total number of vehicles involved in crashes decreased from 10,715 in the prior year to 10,358 in the current year. Passenger cars remained the most frequently involved vehicle type, though their count decreased from 4,673 to 4,629. The top vehicle makes involved, Chevrolet and Ford, both saw a reduction in their crash counts, with Chevrolet dropping from 1,376 to 1,320 and Ford from 1,468 to 1,255.
Top Vehicle Makes (10,358 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
1,438 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (11,265 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Person-level records linked to crash events
Data Sources & Methodology
Primary Data Source
All crash data in this report is sourced from Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), accessed programmatically via the Csv Open Data API (SODA). This dataset contains official police-reported motor vehicle traffic crash records maintained by the reporting jurisdiction's law enforcement agency. Records are published to the open data portal by the municipality and are subject to the portal's terms of use.
Data Retrieval
- Access method: Csv Open Data API (SoQL queries)
- Data format: Structured JSON via REST API
- Record types queried: Crash events, person records, and vehicle unit records
- Date filter applied: 2025-01-01 through 2025-12-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-01-01 through 2025-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: Akron, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 5,413
- Total persons involved: 12,638
- Total vehicles involved: 10,358
Analytical Methodology
- Severity classification: Uses the KABCO injury scale (K=Fatal, A=Incapacitating injury, B=Non-incapacitating injury, C=Possible injury, O=No injury/property damage only), the standard classification in U.S. Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC). Severity is assigned per crash event based on the most severe injury in that crash. A single fatal crash (K) may involve multiple fatalities; therefore the "Persons Killed" count in the headline KPIs may differ from the "Fatal" crash count in the severity breakdown.
- Contributing factors: Reflect the officer-determined primary contributory cause recorded at the time of the crash report. These are preliminary determinations and may not reflect final investigation findings.
- Hit-and-run classification: Based on the hit-and-run indicator field in the official crash report, as determined by the responding officer at the scene.
- Temporal analysis: Day-of-week and hour-of-day distributions are computed from the crash date/time timestamp in each record.
- Demographics: Age and sex distributions are drawn from person-level records linked to each crash event. A single crash may involve multiple persons.
- Vehicle data: Make information is drawn from vehicle unit records linked to each crash event.
- AI commentary: Narrative sections are generated by Google Gemini (large language model) based on the structured data. Commentary is descriptive, not predictive, and should not be interpreted as expert opinion.
Limitations & Disclaimers
- Only crashes reported to and documented by law enforcement are included. Minor incidents, unreported crashes, and near-misses are not captured in this dataset.
- Data reflects conditions at the time of the initial police report and may be subject to subsequent corrections, reclassifications, or supplements by the reporting agency.
- Open data portal records may experience a publication lag - recently occurring crashes may not yet appear in the dataset at the time of report generation.
- AI-generated commentary is produced by a large language model and is intended to highlight patterns in the data. It does not constitute legal, medical, or professional analysis.
- Percentages are calculated from reported data and are subject to rounding.
Non-Affiliation Disclosure
This report is produced independently by ThatCarHitMe.com (Injuria.ai). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in partnership with any law enforcement agency, municipal government, state department of transportation, or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Data is sourced from publicly available government open data portals.
Data License
The underlying crash data is provided under the municipality's Open Data Terms of Use and is made available to the public for unrestricted use. This analysis and report is © 2026 Injuria.ai and may be cited with attribution using the suggested citation below.
Corrections & Feedback
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Suggested Citation
ThatCarHitMe.com (Injuria.ai). "Akron, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2025." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/akron/2025-annual-report
About the Publisher
ThatCarHitMe.com is a crash data intelligence platform developed by Injuria.ai, a legal technology company specializing in traffic safety analytics. We aggregate and analyze publicly available government crash data to produce structured intelligence reports for communities, researchers, journalists, and legal professionals. Our reports combine programmatic data retrieval from official open data portals with AI-assisted narrative analysis.
Questions about this report's data or methodology: data@injuria.ai
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An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2025-01-01 – 2025-12-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved