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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · 2024
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/2024-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
824 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2024
In 2024, Crawford County recorded 824 total traffic crashes, a 7.2% increase from the 769 crashes reported in 2023. While the overall number of crashes and injuries (213 vs. 200) rose, the number of fatalities saw a significant decrease, falling from 7 in the prior year to 3 in the current year. This drop in fatalities represents the most notable year-over-year shift in the data.
824
▲ 7.2%was 769
Total Crash Events
3
▼ -57.1%was 7
Persons Killed
213
▲ 6.5%was 200
Persons Injured
49
▼ -10.9%was 55
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 · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
The overall trend in traffic crashes in Crawford County is rising year-over-year. The county experienced a 7.2% increase in total crashes, from 769 in 2023 to 824 in 2024. This represents an additional 55 crashes in the current period.
49
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2024
▼ -10.9% vs prior (55)
Hit-and-run incidents in Crawford County showed a downward trend in the most recent period. The total number of hit-and-run crashes decreased from 55 in 2023 to 49 in 2024. Correspondingly, the hit-and-run rate, as a percentage of total crashes, fell from 7.2% to 5.9%.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
3
Motorists Killed
3
Pedestrians Injured
210
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
Temporal analysis shows a shift in the daily peak for crashes between the two periods. While Friday remained the day with the most crashes in both 2024 (163 crashes) and 2023 (139 crashes), the peak hour for collisions changed. In 2024, the most crashes occurred at 6 PM with 63 incidents, shifting from the 7 AM peak (60 incidents) observed in the prior year.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
Crash severity outcomes improved year-over-year, with a notable decrease in fatal incidents. The number of fatal crashes dropped from 7 in 2023 to 3 in 2024, and the fatal crash rate per 100 crashes fell from 0.91 to 0.36. While serious injury crashes remained proportionally stable (2.7% in 2024 vs. 2.6% in 2023), there was an increase in the proportion of minor injury crashes, which rose from 9.8% to 11.7% of all crashes.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
The majority of crashes in both periods occurred in clear weather and on dry roads. However, there was a notable increase in crashes during adverse conditions in 2024, with incidents in snow more than doubling from 24 to 61 and crashes on ice more than tripling from 7 to 22. The proportion of crashes occurring in dark conditions also increased from 35.6% in 2023 to 38.5% in 2024, while the share of daylight crashes decreased.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
Passenger Cars, Sport Utility Vehicles, and Pick-ups were the top three vehicle types involved in crashes for both years. The top three vehicle makes also remained consistent, with Chevrolet (261 vehicles), Ford (162), and Honda (93) being the most common in 2024. Analysis of persons involved shows the 65+ age group had the largest representation in 2024 with 220 individuals, an increase from 197 in the prior year.
Top Vehicle Makes (1,239 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
25 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (1,323 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · 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: 2024-01-01 through 2024-12-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2024-01-01 through 2024-12-31 (366 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 824
- Total persons involved: 1,442
- Total vehicles involved: 1,239
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: 2024." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/2024-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: 2024-01-01 – 2024-12-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved