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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · AUGUST 2023
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/statewide/august-2023-report
Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
20,839 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
AUGUST 2023
In August 2023, Ohio recorded 20,839 total crashes, a 3.4% decrease from the 21,572 crashes reported in August 2022. The most significant year-over-year change was a 29.7% reduction in total fatalities, which fell from 145 to 102. Total injuries also saw a slight decrease of 1.4%, from 8,538 in the prior period to 8,418 in the current period.
20,839
▼ -3.4%was 21,572
Total Crash Events
102
▼ -29.7%was 145
Persons Killed
8,418
▼ -1.4%was 8,538
Persons Injured
3,699
▼ -3.0%was 3,812
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (102) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (99) 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 · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall crash trends in Ohio for August show a year-over-year decrease. Total crashes fell by 3.4%, from 21,572 in August 2022 to 20,839 in August 2023. This downward trend was also reflected in key severity metrics, with total fatalities dropping by 29.7% and total injuries decreasing by 1.4%.
3,699
Hit-and-Run Crashes — August 2023
▼ -3.0% vs prior (3,812)
The number of hit-and-run crashes decreased slightly from 3,812 in August 2022 to 3,699 in August 2023. However, because total crashes also decreased, the hit-and-run rate remained nearly unchanged. The rate was 17.8% in the current period, a marginal increase from 17.7% in the prior year, indicating that hit-and-runs constituted a consistent proportion of all crashes.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
12
Pedestrians Killed
90
Motorists Killed
190
Pedestrians Injured
8,228
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · 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 year-over-year. The peak hour for crashes in both August 2023 and August 2022 was the 4 p.m. hour, with 1,891 and 1,873 crashes respectively. However, the peak day for crashes shifted from Wednesday (3,665 crashes) in the prior year to Thursday (3,814 crashes) in the current period.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The overall severity of crashes decreased from August 2022 to August 2023. The fatal crash rate fell from 0.63% to 0.48%, with fatal crashes accounting for 0.5% of all incidents in the current period compared to 0.6% in the prior year. The proportion of serious injury crashes remained stable at 2.9% (605 crashes) versus 2.8% (604 crashes), while minor injury crashes saw a slight increase in their share of total crashes from 14.2% to 14.5%.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 99 fatal crash events resulted in 102 persons killed.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
The distribution of environmental conditions during crashes remained broadly similar year-over-year. Crashes in clear weather and daylight conditions constituted the majority in both periods, accounting for 70.9% and 75.8% of crashes respectively in August 2023, nearly identical to the prior year's proportions. There was a slight shift in road surface conditions, with crashes on wet roads increasing from 11.2% of the total in August 2022 to 13.7% in August 2023.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The types of vehicles involved in crashes and the demographics of persons involved showed little change year-over-year. Passenger cars (18,243) and Sport Utility Vehicles (9,512) were the most common vehicle types in August 2023, consistent with the prior year. The top three vehicle makes involved in crashes remained Chevrolet, Ford, and Honda in both periods. The age distribution of persons involved also remained stable, with the 26-34 age group representing the largest share in both August 2023 (15.2%) and August 2022 (15.6%).
Top Vehicle Makes (38,441 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · Vehicle unit records
3,310 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (46,058 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31 · 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: 2023-08-01 through 2023-08-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2023-08-01 through 2023-08-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 20,839
- Total persons involved: 48,626
- Total vehicles involved: 38,441
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: August 2023." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2023-08-01 to 2023-08-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/august-2023-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: 2023-08-01 – 2023-08-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved