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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · CONGRESS, OH · 2023
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Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
168 CRASHES IN
CONGRESS, OH
2023
Total crashes in Congress decreased by 19.23%, from 208 crashes in the prior year to 168 crashes in the current year. Fatalities also saw a significant decrease of 33.33%, falling from 3 to 2. This period also saw a notable shift in the peak day for crashes, moving from Friday to Wednesday.
168
▼ -19.2%was 208
Total Crash Events
2
▼ -33.3%was 3
Persons Killed
50
▼ -25.4%was 67
Persons Injured
18
▼ -28.0%was 25
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 · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall, crash data indicates a downward trend year-over-year, with total crashes decreasing by 19.23% (from 208 to 168). This reduction extends to fatalities, which decreased by 33.33% (from 3 to 2), and injuries, which fell by 25.37% (from 67 to 50).
18
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2023
▼ -28.0% vs prior (25)
Hit-and-run crashes decreased from 25 in the prior year to 18 in the current year. Concurrently, the hit-and-run rate decreased from 12% of all crashes to 10.7% of all crashes, indicating a downward trend in these types of incidents.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
2
Motorists Killed
1
Pedestrians Injured
49
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 peak day for crashes shifted from Friday with 50 crashes in the prior year to Wednesday with 34 crashes in the current year. Similarly, the peak hour changed from 1 PM with 16 crashes in the prior year to 3 PM with 21 crashes in the current year. This indicates a change in the temporal patterns of crash occurrences.
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 number of fatal crashes decreased from 3 (1.4% of total crashes) to 2 (1.2% of total crashes) year-over-year. Serious injury crashes (severity A) increased from 4 (1.9%) to 6 (3.6%), while minor injury crashes (severity B) decreased from 34 (16.3%) to 23 (13.7%). Crashes with no reported injuries (severity O) saw a slight proportional increase from 75% to 77.4% of all crashes.
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
Crashes occurring in clear weather conditions increased proportionally from 50% to 54.17%, while those in snow conditions decreased from 10.1% to 7.74% of total crashes. Crashes on dry road surfaces increased proportionally from 60.1% to 69.05%, coinciding with a proportional decrease in snow-related road surface crashes from 16.35% to 4.17%.
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 total number of persons involved in crashes decreased from 409 to 340. The proportion of persons aged 0-15 decreased from 12.22% to 7.94%, while those aged 26-34 increased from 13.45% to 19.12%. Among vehicle types, passenger cars decreased from 103 to 84, and semi-tractors decreased from 51 to 28, while SUVs saw a slight increase from 59 to 61 vehicles involved.
Top Vehicle Makes (238 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
19 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (325 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 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: Congress, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 168
- Total persons involved: 340
- Total vehicles involved: 238
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.
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Suggested Citation
ThatCarHitMe.com (Injuria.ai). "Congress, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2023." Published July 6, 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/congress/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.
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ThatCarHitMe.com · An Injuria.ai Company
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Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2023-01-01 – 2023-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved