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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · 2023
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/2023-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
1,854 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2023
In 2023, Ashtabula County recorded 1,854 total vehicle crashes, a 3.3% decrease from the 1,917 crashes documented in 2022. Despite the overall reduction in collisions, the number of fatalities rose from 14 to 19 year-over-year, representing a 35.7% increase.
1,854
▼ -3.3%was 1,917
Total Crash Events
19
▲ 35.7%was 14
Persons Killed
682
▲ 0.4%was 679
Persons Injured
165
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (19) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (19) 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 · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall traffic collisions in Ashtabula County saw a modest decline in 2023, with 63 fewer crashes than in the prior year, a 3.3% decrease. However, this trend did not extend to crash outcomes, as total injuries remained stable at 682 compared to 679, and total fatalities increased by 35.7% from 14 to 19.
165
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2023
▼ 0.0% vs prior (165)
The number of hit-and-run crashes in Ashtabula County remained unchanged, with 165 incidents reported in both 2023 and 2022. However, because the total number of crashes decreased in 2023, the hit-and-run rate saw a slight increase. These incidents accounted for 8.9% of all crashes in 2023, up from 8.6% in the previous year.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
3
Pedestrians Killed
16
Motorists Killed
15
Pedestrians Injured
667
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes showed some shifts between the two periods. While the peak hour for collisions remained stable at 3 p.m. in both 2023 (146 crashes) and 2022 (149 crashes), the peak day shifted from Friday (316 crashes) in 2022 to Thursday (294 crashes) in 2023. Crashes on Fridays saw a notable decrease from 316 to 271 year-over-year.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
While total crashes decreased, the severity of crashes worsened in 2023. The number of fatal crashes increased from 14 to 19, pushing the fatal crash rate up from 0.73% to 1.02%. The proportion of serious injury crashes decreased slightly from 3.7% to 3.4%, while minor injury crashes saw a small increase from 15.4% to 16.1% of all incidents. Crashes resulting in no injury made up a slightly smaller share of the total, at 72.4% in 2023 compared to 73.0% in 2022.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
The proportion of crashes occurring on dry roads increased from 68.2% in 2022 to 71.2% in 2023. Correspondingly, crashes on snow-covered roads decreased significantly, accounting for 5.1% of incidents in 2023 compared to 9.7% in the prior year. Crashes in dark, unlighted conditions saw a proportional increase, rising from 24.0% of all crashes in 2022 to 26.7% in 2023. Collisions during clear weather decreased as a share of the total, while those in cloudy and rainy conditions increased.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The most common vehicle makes involved in crashes remained consistent year-over-year, with Chevrolet (466), Ford (414), and Honda (229) being the top three in 2023, similar to the prior year. In terms of persons involved, the 16-20 age group saw its representation increase from 11.6% in 2022 to 12.8% in 2023. Conversely, the proportion of individuals in the 26-34 age group decreased from 14.8% to 13.5% over the same period.
Top Vehicle Makes (2,864 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
140 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (3,869 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · 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: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31
- Report generated: July 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 1,854
- Total persons involved: 3,989
- Total vehicles involved: 2,864
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: 2023." Published July 6, 2026. Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/2023-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
ThatCarHitMe.com · An Injuria.ai Company
ThatCarHitMe.com
An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2023-01-01 – 2023-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved