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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · 2025
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/statewide/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
3,983 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2025
In 2025, Delaware County recorded 3,983 total vehicle crashes, a 16.9% increase from the 3,408 crashes documented in 2024. Despite this rise in total collisions, the number of fatalities decreased from 20 to 17 over the same period. The most significant shift was the overall increase in crash volume, which occurred alongside a decrease in the rate of fatal and serious injury crashes.
3,983
▲ 16.9%was 3,408
Total Crash Events
17
▼ -15.0%was 20
Persons Killed
1,620
▲ 2.5%was 1,581
Persons Injured
514
▲ 13.5%was 453
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (17) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (13) 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
Crash trends in Delaware County show a notable increase year-over-year. The total number of crashes rose from 3,408 in 2024 to 3,983 in 2025, representing a 16.9% increase. Correspondingly, total injuries saw a slight rise from 1,581 to 1,620, while fatalities declined from 20 to 17.
514
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▲ 13.5% vs prior (453)
The number of hit-and-run incidents in Delaware County increased from 453 in 2024 to 514 in 2025. However, due to the larger overall increase in total crashes, the hit-and-run rate as a percentage of all collisions saw a slight decrease. The rate fell from 13.3% in the prior year to 12.9% in the current year, indicating that hit-and-runs grew at a slower pace than other crash types.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
1
Pedestrians Killed
16
Motorists Killed
16
Pedestrians Injured
1,604
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
Temporal patterns of crashes remained broadly similar year-over-year, with Friday being the most frequent day for collisions in both 2025 (640 crashes) and 2024 (599 crashes). However, the peak hour for crashes shifted from the 5 p.m. hour in 2024 (321 crashes) to the 2 p.m. hour in 2025 (324 crashes). The afternoon rush, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., showed a more distributed high volume of crashes in the current period compared to the prior 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
While total crashes increased, the severity of those crashes generally decreased in 2025 compared to 2024. The fatal crash rate fell from 0.56% to 0.33%, with 13 fatal crashes in 2025 versus 19 in the prior year. The proportion of crashes resulting in serious injuries also declined from 2.7% to 2.0%. Conversely, crashes resulting in 'Possible Injury' or 'No Injury' made up a larger share of the total, increasing from 12.0% to 13.0% and 69.5% to 72.1%, respectively.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 13 fatal crash events resulted in 17 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
The majority of crashes in both periods occurred in clear weather and on dry roads. In 2025, 63.6% of crashes were in clear conditions, down slightly from 65.6% in 2024. A notable shift occurred in adverse winter conditions, with the number of crashes happening in snow nearly doubling from 113 to 214, and those on snowy road surfaces increasing from 105 to 204. The proportion of crashes during daylight hours increased slightly from 68.4% in 2024 to 70.4% in 2025.
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 types of vehicles involved in crashes remained consistent year-over-year, with Honda (1,115 vehicles), Ford (806), and Chevrolet (738) being the most common makes in 2025, reflecting a similar ranking from 2024. The number of vehicles from these top makes involved in crashes increased, in line with the overall rise in collisions. Analysis of persons involved shows the 16-20 age group was the most frequently represented in both years, increasing from 1,214 individuals in 2024 to 1,398 in 2025.
Top Vehicle Makes (7,250 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
467 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (9,259 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: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 3,983
- Total persons involved: 9,612
- Total vehicles involved: 7,250
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: 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/statewide/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