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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
3,539 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
2025
In 2025, Richland County recorded 3,539 total crashes, a 14.6% increase from the 3,089 crashes reported in 2024. Despite the rise in total collisions, the most notable year-over-year shift was a significant decrease in traffic fatalities, which fell from 16 in the prior period to 7 in the current period. This was accompanied by a substantial increase in the number of hit-and-run incidents.
3,539
▲ 14.6%was 3,089
Total Crash Events
7
▼ -56.3%was 16
Persons Killed
1,194
▲ 8.0%was 1,106
Persons Injured
516
▲ 34.4%was 384
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 · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall traffic crash trends in Richland County are rising year-over-year. Total collisions increased by 14.6%, from 3,089 in 2024 to 3,539 in 2025. This was accompanied by a 7.9% increase in the number of people injured, which rose from 1,106 to 1,194.
516
Hit-and-Run Crashes — 2025
▲ 34.4% vs prior (384)
Hit-and-run crashes showed a significant upward trend, increasing by 34.4% from 384 incidents in 2024 to 516 in 2025. This growth outpaced the overall rise in total crashes. As a result, the hit-and-run rate increased, accounting for 14.6% of all crashes in the current period, up from 12.4% in the prior period.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
0
Pedestrians Killed
7
Motorists Killed
18
Pedestrians Injured
1,176
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 remained largely consistent between the two periods. Friday was the peak day for crashes in both 2024 (544 crashes) and 2025 (622 crashes). The peak hour for collisions shifted slightly later in the day, from the 3 p.m. hour in the prior period (237 crashes) to the 4 p.m. hour in the current period (273 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 total crashes increased, their overall severity decreased year-over-year. The fatal crash rate fell from 0.49% in 2024 to 0.17% in 2025, with the number of fatal crashes dropping from 15 to 6. The proportion of crashes resulting in any type of injury (fatal, serious, minor, or possible) also declined, from 25.5% of all crashes in the prior period to 23.1% in the current period, while no-injury crashes increased from 74.5% to 76.9% of the total.
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 · 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 proportion of crashes occurring in daylight was stable, accounting for 62.3% of crashes in 2025 versus 60.7% in 2024. There was a notable increase in crashes occurring in adverse conditions, with the share of crashes in rain or snow rising from 18.5% to 23.0% year-over-year. Similarly, collisions on wet, snowy, or icy road surfaces increased from 26.4% of all crashes in the prior period to 32.7% in the current period.
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 top vehicle makes involved in crashes remained consistent, led by Chevrolet (1,024 vehicles), Ford (766), and Honda (449) in 2025, mirroring the rankings from 2024. The most common vehicle types were Passenger Cars (2,352), Sport Utility Vehicles (1,641), and Pick-ups (808). The number of SUVs involved in crashes saw a marked increase from 1,224 in the prior year to 1,641 in the current year.
Top Vehicle Makes (5,649 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Vehicle unit records
398 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (6,985 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 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-01-01 through 2025-12-31 (365 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 3,539
- Total persons involved: 7,297
- Total vehicles involved: 5,649
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 5, 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 5, 2026 · All rights reserved