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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · HAMILTON, 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/hamilton/2024-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
1,809 CRASHES IN
HAMILTON, OH
2024
Current total crashes were 1,809, a decrease of 3.37% from the prior year's 1,872 crashes. The most significant year-over-year shift was a 40% reduction in total fatalities, decreasing from 5 in the prior year to 3 in the current year.
1,809
▼ -3.4%was 1,872
Total Crash Events
3
▼ -40.0%was 5
Persons Killed
669
▼ -1.5%was 679
Persons Injured
421
▼ -1.4%was 427
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (3) 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 · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall, the trend indicates a decrease in crash-related incidents. Total crashes decreased by 3.37% from 1,872 to 1,809. Concurrently, total fatalities saw a notable decline of 40%, dropping from 5 to 3.
421
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2024
▼ -1.4% vs prior (427)
Hit-and-run incidents saw a slight decrease in count, dropping from 427 to 421, a reduction of 1.41%. However, the overall hit-and-run rate increased marginally from 22.8% in the prior year to 23.3% in the current year.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
3
Motorists Killed
17
Pedestrians Injured
652
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 temporal distribution of crashes showed a shift in peak activity. The peak crash day transitioned from Tuesday in the prior year (297 crashes) to Friday in the current year (346 crashes). The peak crash hour also shifted from 5 PM (149 crashes) in the prior year to 4 PM (152 crashes) 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
Crash severity data reveals a decrease in fatal incidents, with fatal crashes dropping from 5 to 2, representing a 60% reduction. The fatal crash rate also decreased from 0.27% to 0.11%. Conversely, serious injury crashes increased by 11.11%, from 27 to 30, and minor injury crashes increased by 14.17%, from 240 to 274.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 2 fatal crash events resulted in 3 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
Analysis of conditions shows some shifts, particularly in adverse weather. Crashes during snowy conditions increased significantly by 108.33%, rising from 12 in the prior year to 25 in the current year. Meanwhile, crashes during clear weather decreased by 1.58% and crashes during cloudy conditions decreased by 7.28%.
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 3.32%, from 3,615 to 3,495. Among vehicle types, passenger cars involved in crashes decreased by 4.49%, from 1,644 to 1,572, and sport utility vehicles decreased by 4.67%, from 943 to 899. Ford vehicles involved in crashes increased by 5.19% from 482 to 507, while Chevrolet vehicles decreased by 2.4% from 549 to 536.
Top Vehicle Makes (3,495 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
363 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (4,062 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: Hamilton, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 1,809
- Total persons involved: 4,391
- Total vehicles involved: 3,495
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). "Hamilton, 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/hamilton/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 6, 2026 · All rights reserved