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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · 2025
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/2025-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
2,259 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2025
In Erie County, total traffic crashes increased by 9.9% from 2,055 in 2024 to 2,259 in 2025. This rise in collisions was accompanied by an increase in fatalities, which grew from 10 to 13 year-over-year. The most notable shift was a significant increase in crashes occurring on snowy and icy roads, with the count of such incidents more than doubling.
2,259
▲ 9.9%was 2,055
Total Crash Events
13
▲ 30.0%was 10
Persons Killed
686
▲ 0.9%was 680
Persons Injured
240
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (13) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (11) 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 traffic safety trends in the county worsened year-over-year. Total crashes rose by 9.9% from 2,055 to 2,259. The number of people killed in these incidents increased by 30% from 10 to 13, while total injuries saw a slight increase from 680 to 686.
240
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▼ 0.0% vs prior (240)
The absolute number of hit-and-run crashes remained unchanged at 240 incidents in both the current and prior periods. However, due to the overall increase in total crashes in the current year, the hit-and-run rate showed a downward trend. The rate decreased from 11.7% of all crashes in the prior period to 10.6% in the current period.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
1
Pedestrians Killed
12
Motorists Killed
15
Pedestrians Injured
671
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 temporal patterns of crashes showed some changes between the two periods. While Friday remained the peak day for crashes in both years, the number of incidents on Fridays increased from 317 to 389. The peak hour for crashes shifted two hours earlier, moving from 5 p.m. in the prior period (150 crashes) to 3 p.m. in the current period (168 crashes).
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 the total number of crashes increased, the distribution of severity shifted slightly. The number of fatal crashes increased from 10 to 11, though the fatal crash rate remained stable at 0.5% of all crashes. The proportion of crashes involving any type of injury (serious, minor, or possible) decreased from 23.1% in the prior year to 21.5% in the current year, despite a small increase in the absolute number of injury crashes from 475 to 485.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 11 fatal crash events resulted in 13 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
There was a notable shift in crash conditions year-over-year, particularly related to winter weather. While crashes on dry roads still constituted the majority, incidents on snowy roads increased from 76 to 144, and crashes on icy roads rose from 27 to 53. Consequently, the proportion of crashes occurring on dry surfaces fell from 79.0% to 76.8%. Crashes in daylight conditions remained proportionally stable, accounting for about 60% of incidents in both periods.
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 makes of vehicles involved in crashes remained consistent year-over-year, with Ford (693), Chevrolet (587), and Honda (241) being the most common in the current period, reflecting similar rankings from the prior year. When examining the age of persons involved in crashes, all age groups saw an increase in numbers. Notably, the 16-20 age group increased from 536 to 619 persons involved, and the 0-15 group increased from 414 to 534.
Top Vehicle Makes (3,671 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
200 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (4,657 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: 2,259
- Total persons involved: 4,863
- Total vehicles involved: 3,671
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