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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
7,892 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2023
In 2023, Butler County recorded 7,892 total crashes, a 2.4% decrease from the 8,087 crashes reported in 2022. While overall crashes and injuries declined, the number of total fatalities remained unchanged at 34. A notable year-over-year shift was the 9.9% increase in crashes involving a driver under the influence, which rose from 332 to 365.
7,892
▼ -2.4%was 8,087
Total Crash Events
34
Persons Killed
2,850
▼ -6.2%was 3,039
Persons Injured
1,297
▼ -7.2%was 1,397
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (34) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (31) 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 crashes in Butler County showed a downward trend from 2022 to 2023, decreasing by 2.4% from 8,087 to 7,892. This decline was accompanied by a 6.2% reduction in total injuries, which fell from 3,039 to 2,850. The number of total fatalities remained stable at 34 for both years.
1,297
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2023
▼ -7.2% vs prior (1,397)
Hit-and-run incidents in Butler County saw a notable decrease between 2022 and 2023. The total number of hit-and-run crashes fell by 7.2%, from 1,397 to 1,297. Consequently, the hit-and-run rate, representing the proportion of all crashes that were hit-and-runs, also trended downward from 17.3% in 2022 to 16.4% in 2023.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
2
Pedestrians Killed
32
Motorists Killed
45
Pedestrians Injured
2,805
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 in Butler County remained consistent year-over-year. Friday was the peak day for crashes in both 2023 (1,332 crashes) and 2022 (1,403 crashes). Similarly, the 4 p.m. hour was the most frequent time for incidents in both periods, with 675 crashes in 2023 and 717 in 2022. The overall daily and hourly distributions show no significant shifts between the two years.
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
The fatal crash rate in Butler County decreased slightly from 0.42% in 2022 to 0.39% in 2023, with the number of fatal crashes dropping from 34 to 31. The proportion of serious injury crashes remained stable at 2.0% of all incidents in both years. Crashes resulting in minor injuries saw a slight proportional increase from 12.5% to 12.9%, while possible injury crashes decreased from 11.4% to 10.6% of the total.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 31 fatal crash events resulted in 34 persons killed.
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 majority of crashes in both 2023 and 2022 occurred in clear weather and on dry roads. In 2023, 61.5% of crashes were in clear weather, compared to 62.8% in 2022. There was a notable decrease in crashes on snowy roads, from 272 incidents in 2022 to 73 in 2023. Conversely, crashes on wet roads increased from 1,354 to 1,500. Crashes in daylight conditions made up a slightly larger share of the total, rising from 65.9% in 2022 to 68.2% in 2023.
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 top vehicle makes involved in crashes remained consistent, with Chevrolet, Ford, and Honda being the top three in both 2023 and 2022. Chevrolet involvement decreased from 2,319 to 2,175, and Ford from 2,071 to 2,032. In terms of persons involved, most age groups saw stable or slightly decreasing numbers, but there was an increase in persons aged 65 and older, from 1,795 in 2022 to 1,925 in 2023.
Top Vehicle Makes (14,962 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
943 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (18,153 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 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 7,892
- Total persons involved: 19,088
- Total vehicles involved: 14,962
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 5, 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 5, 2026 · All rights reserved