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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · BUTLER, OH · 2025
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/butler/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
690 CRASHES IN
BUTLER, OH
2025
Total crashes in Butler increased by 13.30% year-over-year, rising from 609 crashes in 2024 to 690 crashes in 2025. Despite this overall increase, fatalities decreased by 57.14%, falling from 7 in 2024 to 3 in 2025. A notable shift includes a 500% increase in pedestrian crashes, from 1 in 2024 to 6 in 2025.
690
▲ 13.3%was 609
Total Crash Events
3
▼ -57.1%was 7
Persons Killed
280
Persons Injured
87
▲ 16.0%was 75
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (3) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (3) 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 incidents in Butler increased by 13.30% year-over-year, rising from 609 crashes in 2024 to 690 crashes in 2025. Despite this increase in total crashes, fatalities saw a significant decrease of 57.14%, falling from 7 in 2024 to 3 in 2025. The total number of injuries remained stable at 280 for both years.
87
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▲ 16.0% vs prior (75)
Hit-and-run crashes increased by 12 incidents year-over-year, rising from 75 in 2024 to 87 in 2025. This represents a 16% increase in the number of hit-and-run incidents. The overall hit-and-run rate also saw a slight uptick, moving from 12.3% to 12.6%.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
3
Motorists Killed
6
Pedestrians Injured
274
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 peak day for crashes shifted from Friday in 2024 (115 crashes) to Monday in 2025 (111 crashes). Concurrently, the peak crash hour moved from 5p in 2024 (63 crashes) to 6p in 2025 (57 crashes. Crashes on Friday decreased from 115 to 102, while crashes on Monday increased from 95 to 111.
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 fatal crash rate decreased from 0.7% in 2024 to 0.4% in 2025, with fatal crashes decreasing from 4 to 3. Conversely, serious injury crashes (severity A) saw a notable increase, rising from 15 (2.5%) in 2024 to 28 (4.1%) in 2025. Minor injury crashes (severity B) decreased from 115 to 103, while possible injury crashes (severity C) increased from 47 to 68.
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 snowy weather conditions nearly doubled, rising from 35 in 2024 to 64 in 2025. Similarly, crashes on snowy road surfaces increased from 30 to 62, and on icy surfaces from 10 to 19. While crashes in clear weather and on dry roads also increased, crashes in rainy conditions decreased from 73 to 65.
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 by 9.07%, from 1047 in 2024 to 1142 in 2025. Sport Utility Vehicles involved in crashes increased from 245 to 293, and Semi-Tractors increased from 78 to 100. The age demographic of 35-44 saw a decrease in involved persons from 240 to 220, while the 0-15 age group increased from 103 to 123.
Top Vehicle Makes (1,142 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
82 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (1,443 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: Butler, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 690
- Total persons involved: 1,519
- Total vehicles involved: 1,142
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
If you believe any data in this report is inaccurate or have questions about our methodology, please contact: data@injuria.ai. We are committed to accuracy and will issue corrections promptly.
Suggested Citation
ThatCarHitMe.com (Injuria.ai). "Butler, 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/butler/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