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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · BEREA, OH · 2024
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/berea/2024-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
221 CRASHES IN
BEREA, OH
2024
Berea experienced a 4.25% increase in total crashes year-over-year, rising from 212 crashes in 2023 to 221 crashes in 2024. Despite this overall increase, DUI crashes saw a substantial decrease of 69.6%, falling from 23 in 2023 to 7 in 2024. Total injuries also rose significantly by 33.3% during this period.
221
▲ 4.2%was 212
Total Crash Events
0
Persons Killed
72
▲ 33.3%was 54
Persons Injured
27
▼ -32.5%was 40
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (0) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (0) 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 · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
The overall trend indicates a slight increase in crash incidents, with total crashes rising from 212 in 2023 to 221 in 2024, a 4.25% increase. Total injuries saw a more pronounced increase of 33.3%, from 54 injured persons in 2023 to 72 in 2024. Fatalities remained at zero for both periods, indicating no change in this critical metric.
27
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2024
▼ -32.5% vs prior (40)
Hit-and-run crashes experienced a significant decrease year-over-year, falling from 40 incidents in 2023 to 27 in 2024. This reduction resulted in the hit-and-run crash rate declining from 18.9% in 2023 to 12.2% in 2024. This indicates a positive trend with fewer hit-and-run incidents reported.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
0
Motorists Killed
3
Pedestrians Injured
69
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The peak day for crashes shifted slightly, with both Tuesday and Wednesday recording the highest number of crashes (39 each) in 2024, whereas Tuesday was the sole peak day in 2023 with 39 crashes. The peak crash hour also changed from 7 PM (20 crashes) in 2023 to 3 PM (22 crashes) in 2024, indicating a shift towards earlier afternoon peak activity.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
Fatal crashes remained at zero for both 2023 and 2024. However, serious injury crashes increased from 4 (1.9% of crashes) in 2023 to 6 (2.7%) in 2024, and minor injury crashes more than doubled from 11 (5.2%) to 25 (11.3%). Conversely, the proportion of no-injury crashes decreased from 80.2% in 2023 to 73.8% in 2024.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Crashes occurring in clear weather conditions increased from 137 in 2023 to 145 in 2024, while crashes in rain decreased from 31 to 21. Crashes during daylight hours increased from 141 to 162, contrasting with a decrease in crashes occurring on dark-lighted roadways from 50 to 42. Crashes on dry road surfaces rose from 147 to 169, while those on wet surfaces decreased from 57 to 38.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The total number of vehicles involved in crashes increased from 397 in 2023 to 417 in 2024. While Sport Utility Vehicle involvement decreased from 118 to 108, Passenger Car involvement increased from 180 to 196. Notably, the representation of younger age groups in crashes, specifically 0-15 and 16-20, increased from 26 to 37 and 50 to 69 persons, respectively.
Top Vehicle Makes (417 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
20 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (484 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · 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: 2024-01-01 through 2024-12-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2024-01-01 through 2024-12-31 (366 days)
- Geographic scope: Berea, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 221
- Total persons involved: 500
- Total vehicles involved: 417
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). "Berea, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2024." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/berea/2024-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: 2024-01-01 – 2024-12-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved