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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · BUCYRUS, OH · 2025
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Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
183 CRASHES IN
BUCYRUS, OH
2025
Bucyrus experienced a 13.66% increase in total crashes year-over-year, rising from 161 crashes in the prior period to 183 crashes in the current period. A significant shift was observed in fatalities, which increased from 0 in the prior period to 2 in the current period.
183
▲ 13.7%was 161
Total Crash Events
2
Persons Killed
39
▲ 11.4%was 35
Persons Injured
18
▲ 20.0%was 15
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (2) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (2) 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 crash trends in Bucyrus show an increase, with total crashes rising by 13.66% from 161 to 183 year-over-year. This period also saw an increase in total fatalities from 0 to 2, and total injuries increased by 11.43% from 35 to 39.
18
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▲ 20.0% vs prior (15)
Hit-and-run incidents increased year-over-year, with the number of crashes rising from 15 to 18. Correspondingly, the hit-and-run crash rate increased from 9.3% in the prior period to 9.8% in the current period.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
2
Motorists Killed
39
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 distribution of crashes showed a shift in peak activity. The peak day for crashes moved from Friday in the prior period, with 34 crashes, to Monday in the current period, also with 34 crashes. Additionally, the peak crash hour shifted from 1p with 13 crashes in the prior period to 6p with 16 crashes in the current period.
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
The severity distribution indicates a notable increase in fatal crashes, rising from 0 in the prior period to 2 in the current period. Serious injury (A) crashes decreased from 4 to 2, while minor injury (B) crashes increased from 16 to 19. The proportion of no-injury crashes remained relatively stable, increasing slightly from 82% to 83.1%.
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
Crashes occurring in clear weather increased from 111 to 122, while those in rainy conditions rose from 16 to 18, and snowy conditions from 11 to 15. Under lighting conditions, daylight crashes increased from 106 to 124, and dawn/dusk crashes saw a significant rise from 6 to 15. Crashes on wet road surfaces increased from 26 to 35, and on icy surfaces from 1 to 6.
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 total number of vehicles involved in crashes increased from 277 to 323 year-over-year. While passenger cars involved remained stable at 124, sport utility vehicles increased from 69 to 95, and pickup trucks from 42 to 61. Chevrolet remained the most frequently involved make, rising from 59 to 73, with Ford also seeing an increase from 34 to 45.
Top Vehicle Makes (323 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 (347 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: Bucyrus, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 183
- Total persons involved: 376
- Total vehicles involved: 323
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). "Bucyrus, 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/bucyrus/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.
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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