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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · AUGUST 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/statewide/august-2025-report
Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
224 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
AUGUST 2025
In August 2025, Allen County recorded 224 total crashes, a 4.7% increase from the 214 crashes documented in August 2024. While the number of fatalities remained unchanged at one, the most significant year-over-year change was the number of crashes resulting in serious injuries, which quadrupled from 3 to 12.
224
▲ 4.7%was 214
Total Crash Events
1
Persons Killed
90
▲ 7.1%was 84
Persons Injured
38
▲ 35.7%was 28
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (1) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (1) 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 · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Crash trends in Allen County show a slight increase in August 2025 compared to the same month in 2024. Total crashes rose by 4.7% from 214 to 224, and the number of people injured increased by 7.1% from 84 to 90. The number of fatalities held steady at one for both periods.
38
Hit-and-Run Crashes — August 2025
▲ 35.7% vs prior (28)
Hit-and-run incidents increased in August 2025 compared to the same month in 2024. The total number of hit-and-run crashes rose from 28 to 38, a 35.7% increase. The hit-and-run rate, which measures the proportion of all crashes that were hit-and-runs, also trended upward, climbing from 13.1% to 17.0%.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
1
Motorists Killed
2
Pedestrians Injured
88
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes remained largely consistent year-over-year, with Friday being the peak day for crashes in both August 2025 (43 crashes) and August 2024 (43 crashes). The peak hour for collisions shifted slightly, moving from 4 p.m. in the prior year (19 crashes) to 5 p.m. in the current period (19 crashes). A notable change in daily patterns saw Wednesday replace Thursday as the second-busiest day for crashes.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
While the number of fatal crashes remained stable at one in both August 2025 and August 2024, the severity of non-fatal crashes increased. The number of crashes resulting in serious injuries quadrupled from 3 to 12 year-over-year, representing 5.4% of all crashes in the current period compared to 1.4% in the prior year. Consequently, the proportion of no-injury crashes decreased from 74.8% to 70.5% of the total.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Crashes in August 2025 occurred under more favorable conditions compared to the previous year. The proportion of collisions happening in clear weather rose to 80.4% from 69.6%, while crashes during rain fell from 9.3% to 2.7% of the total. This trend was mirrored in road surface conditions, where incidents on wet roads decreased from 10.7% of all crashes in August 2024 to 4.9% in August 2025.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
A notable shift occurred in the demographics of people involved in crashes, with the 16-20 age group seeing a significant increase from 53 individuals in August 2024 to 79 in August 2025, making it the most frequently involved age bracket. Regarding vehicle makes, Ford and Chevrolet swapped positions for the most commonly involved vehicles; Ford-made vehicles were involved in 95 crashes in the current period, up from 59 the prior year, while Chevrolet-made vehicles remained stable at 68 compared to 69.
Top Vehicle Makes (420 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Vehicle unit records
33 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (492 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · 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: 2025-08-01 through 2025-08-31
- Report generated: July 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-08-01 through 2025-08-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 224
- Total persons involved: 520
- Total vehicles involved: 420
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). "ohio, OH Crash Intelligence Report: August 2025." Published July 6, 2026. Reporting period: 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/august-2025-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
ThatCarHitMe.com · An Injuria.ai Company
ThatCarHitMe.com
An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2025-08-01 – 2025-08-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved