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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · BRECKSVILLE, 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/brecksville/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
176 CRASHES IN
BRECKSVILLE, OH
2025
Brecksville experienced a 28.5% increase in total crashes, rising from 137 in the prior year to 176 in the current year. While total crashes increased, the number of serious injury crashes decreased by 70%, from 10 to 3. There were no traffic fatalities reported in either period.
176
▲ 28.5%was 137
Total Crash Events
0
Persons Killed
57
▲ 9.6%was 52
Persons Injured
9
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 · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall, crashes in Brecksville are trending upwards, with a 28.5% increase in total crashes from 137 in the prior year to 176 in the current year. Despite this rise in crash incidents, the total number of injuries increased by a smaller margin, from 52 to 57, representing a 9.6% increase.
9
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▼ 0.0% vs prior (9)
The number of hit-and-run crashes remained constant at 9 in both the current and prior year. However, due to the overall increase in total crashes, the hit-and-run rate decreased from 6.6% in the prior year to 5.1% in the current year.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
0
Motorists Killed
1
Pedestrians Injured
56
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 temporal patterns of crashes showed shifts year-over-year. The peak day for crashes moved from Thursday with 25 incidents in the prior year to Wednesday with 37 incidents in the current year. The peak hour remained 4 PM, though the number of crashes at this hour slightly decreased from 19 to 17.
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
There were no fatal crashes or fatalities reported in either the current or prior year. Serious injury crashes (severity 'A') significantly decreased from 10 (7.3% of crashes) in the prior year to 3 (1.7% of crashes) in the current year. Concurrently, crashes with no reported injury increased from 98 (71.5% of crashes) to 140 (79.5% of crashes), indicating a shift towards less severe outcomes despite an increase in total incidents.
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
Regarding crash conditions, incidents during snowy weather increased from 16 to 30, and crashes on snowy road surfaces increased from 13 to 23. Conversely, crashes occurring in rainy weather decreased from 26 to 17, and those on wet road surfaces decreased from 39 to 31. The proportion of crashes occurring in daylight remained stable at approximately 75% in both periods.
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 types of vehicles involved in crashes saw a shift, with Sport Utility Vehicles becoming the most frequent, increasing from 76 to 119, surpassing Passenger Cars which increased from 105 to 118. Ford remained the top make involved, increasing from 38 to 46, followed by Toyota (27 to 30) and Chevrolet (19 to 28). All age groups saw an increase in persons involved, with notable increases in the 0-15 age group (from 30 to 54) and the 65+ age group (from 45 to 59).
Top Vehicle Makes (307 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
9 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (412 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 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-01-01 through 2025-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: Brecksville, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 176
- Total persons involved: 417
- Total vehicles involved: 307
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). "Brecksville, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2025." Published July 6, 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/brecksville/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
ThatCarHitMe.com · An Injuria.ai Company
ThatCarHitMe.com
An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2025-01-01 – 2025-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved