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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · COLUMBUS, OH · 2025
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/columbus/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
17,023 CRASHES IN
COLUMBUS, OH
2025
Total crashes in the current period reached 17,023, marking a 3.29% increase from the prior year's 16,480 crashes. Fatalities saw a significant rise, climbing by 21.21% from 66 to 80. This substantial increase in fatalities is the most notable year-over-year shift in the data.
17,023
▲ 3.3%was 16,480
Total Crash Events
80
▲ 21.2%was 66
Persons Killed
7,742
▼ -0.9%was 7,809
Persons Injured
6,820
▲ 3.0%was 6,622
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (80) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (75) 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 are on an upward trend, with total crashes increasing by 3.29% from 16,480 in the prior year to 17,023 in the current year. Fatalities experienced a substantial increase of 21.21%, rising from 66 to 80. In contrast, total injuries decreased slightly by 0.86%, moving from 7,809 to 7,742.
6,820
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▲ 3.0% vs prior (6,622)
Hit-and-run crashes increased by 2.99%, rising from 6,622 to 6,820. Despite this increase in the absolute number of hit-and-run incidents, the hit-and-run crash rate slightly decreased from 40.2% to 40.1% of all crashes.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
27
Pedestrians Killed
53
Motorists Killed
478
Pedestrians Injured
7,264
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 remained Friday for both periods, though the count slightly decreased from 2,710 in the prior year to 2,676 in the current year. The peak hour for crashes shifted from 5 PM with 1,315 crashes in the prior year to 4 PM with 1,280 crashes in the current year.
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 increased from 0.37% in the prior year to 0.44% in the current year. Fatal crashes, specifically, rose by 22.95%, from 61 to 75. While total injuries decreased by 0.86% (from 7,809 to 7,742), the proportion of minor injury crashes also decreased from 18.6% to 17.9% of all crashes.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 75 fatal crash events resulted in 80 persons killed.
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 saw a substantial increase of 75.3%, rising from 328 to 575. Similarly, crashes on snow-covered road surfaces more than doubled, increasing by 126.4% from 265 to 600. Conversely, crashes during rainy weather decreased by 10.65%, from 2,009 to 1,795.
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 2.95%, from 33,081 to 34,056. Sport Utility Vehicle involvement rose by 7.76% (from 8,012 to 8,634), and Semi-Tractor involvement increased by 15.52% (from 638 to 737). There was a slight increase in crashes involving persons aged 16-20 (1.69%), while the 0-15 and 65+ age groups saw minor decreases of 0.36% and 0.78%, respectively.
Top Vehicle Makes (34,056 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
6,813 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (36,831 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 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-01-01 through 2025-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: Columbus, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 17,023
- Total persons involved: 41,803
- Total vehicles involved: 34,056
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). "Columbus, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2025." Published July 5, 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/columbus/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
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An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2025-01-01 – 2025-12-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved