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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · ELYRIA, OH · 2024
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/elyria/2024-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
1,229 CRASHES IN
ELYRIA, OH
2024
Elyria experienced a decrease in total crashes from 1299 in the prior year to 1229 in the current year, marking a 5.39% reduction. However, fatalities saw a significant increase of 250%, rising from 2 in the prior year to 7 in the current year. Total injuries also increased by 14.85%, from 404 to 464.
1,229
▼ -5.4%was 1,299
Total Crash Events
7
▲ 250.0%was 2
Persons Killed
464
▲ 14.9%was 404
Persons Injured
202
▼ -17.9%was 246
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (7) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (6) 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
Overall, the total number of crashes decreased by 5.39% year-over-year, from 1299 crashes in the prior year to 1229 crashes in the current year. Despite this reduction in total crashes, fatalities increased by 250%, rising from 2 to 7. Concurrently, total injuries increased by 14.85%, from 404 to 464.
202
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2024
▼ -17.9% vs prior (246)
Hit-and-run crashes decreased from 246 in the prior year to 202 in the current year, a reduction of 44 incidents. The hit-and-run rate also decreased by 2.5 percentage points, from 18.9% of all crashes in the prior year to 16.4% in the current year.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
1
Pedestrians Killed
6
Motorists Killed
14
Pedestrians Injured
450
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
The peak day for crashes shifted from Tuesday with 216 crashes in the prior year to Thursday with 208 crashes in the current year. The peak hour for crashes remained at 3 PM for both periods, though the count decreased from 136 in the prior year to 125 in the current 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
Fatal crashes increased by 200%, rising from 2 in the prior year to 6 in the current year, with the fatal rate increasing from 0.15% to 0.49%. Serious injuries (code A) increased from 33 to 40, and possible injuries (code C) increased from 139 to 163. The proportion of all injury crashes (fatal, serious, minor, possible) increased from 31.10% of total crashes in the prior year to 37.75% in the current year.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 6 fatal crash events resulted in 7 persons killed.
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 proportion of crashes occurring in clear weather decreased from 59.12% to 55.74% year-over-year, while crashes in rainy conditions increased from 10.70% to 12.61%. Regarding road surface, crashes on dry roads decreased from 76.83% to 74.69%, with crashes on wet roads increasing from 18.40% to 20.34%. Crashes occurring during daylight hours saw a slight increase in proportion, from 69.82% to 71.36% of all crashes.
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
The total number of vehicles involved in crashes decreased by 4.88%, from 2440 to 2321. While passenger cars and SUVs involved in crashes decreased, pickup trucks involved in crashes increased from 252 to 261. The number of motorcyclists involved decreased from 24 to 15, while pedestrians involved increased from 11 to 13.
Top Vehicle Makes (2,321 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
159 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (2,902 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 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2024-01-01 through 2024-12-31 (366 days)
- Geographic scope: Elyria, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 1,229
- Total persons involved: 3,040
- Total vehicles involved: 2,321
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). "Elyria, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2024." Published July 6, 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/elyria/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.
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An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2024-01-01 – 2024-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved