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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · HEATH, OH · 2023
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/heath/2023-annual-report
Yearly Traffic Safety Analysis
291 CRASHES IN
HEATH, OH
2023
In 2023, Heath experienced 291 total crashes, marking a 7.32% decrease from the 314 crashes reported in 2022. Despite this overall reduction, total fatalities increased by 100%, rising from 1 fatality in 2022 to 2 fatalities in 2023. Conversely, total injuries saw a significant decline of 21.36%, decreasing from 103 injuries in 2022 to 81 injuries in 2023.
291
▼ -7.3%was 314
Total Crash Events
2
▲ 100.0%was 1
Persons Killed
81
▼ -21.4%was 103
Persons Injured
30
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (2) 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 · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall, Heath saw a positive trend in crash reduction, with total crashes decreasing by 7.32% from 314 in 2022 to 291 in 2023. Total injuries also decreased by 21.36%, from 103 to 81. However, this positive trend was offset by a concerning 100% increase in total fatalities, rising from 1 in 2022 to 2 in 2023.
30
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2023
▼ 0.0% vs prior (30)
The number of hit-and-run crashes remained consistent at 30 for both 2022 and 2023. However, due to a decrease in overall crashes, the hit-and-run rate increased from 9.6% in 2022 to 10.3% in 2023.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
2
Motorists Killed
1
Pedestrians Injured
80
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · 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 Friday in 2022, which had 64 crashes, to Tuesday in 2023, which recorded 51 crashes. Similarly, the peak hour for crashes moved from 3 PM with 36 crashes in 2022 to 4 PM with 31 crashes in 2023. This indicates a shift in when crashes are most frequently occurring year-over-year.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The fatal crash rate increased from 0.32% in 2022 to 0.69% in 2023, corresponding to an increase from 1 to 2 fatalities. While serious injury crashes remained constant at 6 for both years, the proportion of possible injury crashes rose from 6.1% (19 crashes) in 2022 to 10% (29 crashes) in 2023. Overall, total injuries decreased by 21.36%, from 103 in 2022 to 81 in 2023.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Crashes occurring in clear weather conditions decreased proportionally from 64% in 2022 to 60.8% in 2023, while those in rainy conditions increased from 7.6% to 11%. Crashes during daylight hours decreased proportionally from 79.6% to 74.2%, with a corresponding proportional increase in crashes during dark-lighted roadway conditions (13.7% to 16.8%) and dawn/dusk (1.9% to 4.8%). The proportion of crashes on wet road surfaces also increased from 13.1% in 2022 to 15.5% in 2023.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The total number of vehicles involved in crashes decreased from 598 in 2022 to 567 in 2023. There was a notable decrease in motorcycle crashes, falling from 10 in 2022 to 3 in 2023. In terms of top vehicle makes, Chevrolet, which was the leading make in 2022 with 84 vehicles, was surpassed by both Ford and Honda, each with 83 vehicles involved in 2023 crashes.
Top Vehicle Makes (567 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
34 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (701 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · 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: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31
- Report generated: July 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2023-01-01 through 2023-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: Heath, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 291
- Total persons involved: 726
- Total vehicles involved: 567
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). "Heath, OH Crash Intelligence Report: 2023." Published July 6, 2026. Reporting period: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/heath/2023-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: 2023-01-01 – 2023-12-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved