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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · DECEMBER 2022
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Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
305 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
DECEMBER 2022
In December 2022, Allen County recorded 305 vehicle crashes, a 7.4% increase from the 284 crashes documented in December 2021. While total collisions rose, the number of injuries decreased from 113 to 94. The most notable year-over-year shift was in environmental conditions, with crashes on roads with snow or ice increasing from 3 in the prior period to 61 in the current period.
305
▲ 7.4%was 284
Total Crash Events
1
Persons Killed
94
▼ -16.8%was 113
Persons Injured
48
▲ 4.3%was 46
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 · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Crash totals in Allen County trended upward in December 2022 compared to the same month in the previous year, rising by 7.4% from 284 to 305 incidents. Despite the increase in total crashes, the number of resulting injuries decreased by 16.8% from 113 to 94. The number of fatalities remained stable, with one death recorded in each period.
48
Hit-and-Run Crashes — December 2022
▲ 4.3% vs prior (46)
The absolute number of hit-and-run crashes in Allen County saw a minor increase from 46 incidents in December 2021 to 48 in December 2022. However, because the total number of crashes increased, the hit-and-run rate as a proportion of all collisions slightly decreased, moving from 16.2% to 15.7% year-over-year.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
1
Motorists Killed
5
Pedestrians Injured
89
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes shifted between the two periods. The peak day for collisions moved from Wednesday (56 crashes) in December 2021 to Thursday (62 crashes) in December 2022. Similarly, the busiest hour for crashes shifted from 1 p.m. in the prior period to the 5 p.m. evening commute hour in the current period, which saw 29 incidents.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
While the number of fatal crashes was unchanged at one for both periods, the fatal crash rate saw a marginal decrease from 0.35% to 0.33% due to the higher total number of crashes in December 2022. The proportion of crashes resulting in any type of injury fell from 27.5% in the prior year to 21.3% in the current year. This was driven by a notable drop in minor injury crashes from 42 to 22, even as serious injury crashes increased slightly from 4 to 5.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Adverse road conditions were a significantly larger factor in crashes during December 2022 compared to the prior year. Crashes occurring on roads with snow or ice surged from just 3 incidents in December 2021 to 61 in December 2022, accounting for 20% of all crashes in the current period. In contrast, the proportion of crashes on dry surfaces decreased from 63.0% to 57.0%, while lighting conditions remained proportionally similar between the two periods.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The types of vehicles involved in crashes showed some shifts year-over-year, with Sport Utility Vehicles increasing from 115 to 140, while Pick up trucks decreased from 64 to 44. Passenger cars remained the most common vehicle type, with their involvement rising from 238 to 253 vehicles. Among vehicle makes, Chevrolet and Ford continued to be the most frequently involved, with 86 vehicles each in December 2022, compared to 86 and 92, respectively, in the prior year.
Top Vehicle Makes (509 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
46 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (653 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31 · 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: 2022-12-01 through 2022-12-31
- Report generated: July 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2022-12-01 through 2022-12-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 305
- Total persons involved: 690
- Total vehicles involved: 509
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: December 2022." Published July 6, 2026. Reporting period: 2022-12-01 to 2022-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/december-2022-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: 2022-12-01 – 2022-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved