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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · AUGUST 2025
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/statewide/august-2025-report
Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
20,621 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
AUGUST 2025
In August 2025, Ohio recorded 20,621 traffic crashes, a 0.7% increase from the 20,475 crashes documented in August 2024. Total fatalities rose from 130 to 133 year-over-year, while total injuries increased from 8,162 to 8,273. One of the most notable year-over-year shifts was a 34.8% increase in bicycle-involved crashes, which grew from 158 to 213 incidents.
20,621
▲ 0.7%was 20,475
Total Crash Events
133
▲ 2.3%was 130
Persons Killed
8,273
▲ 1.4%was 8,162
Persons Injured
3,623
▲ 0.8%was 3,595
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (133) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (122) 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 · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Year-over-year data indicates a slight upward trend in traffic incidents for August. Total crashes increased by 0.7%, from 20,475 in August 2024 to 20,621 in August 2025. Similarly, total injuries rose by 1.4% and fatalities increased by 2.3% over the same period.
3,623
Hit-and-Run Crashes — August 2025
▲ 0.8% vs prior (3,595)
The rate of hit-and-run crashes remained stable year-over-year. In both August 2025 and August 2024, hit-and-runs accounted for 17.6% of all crashes. The absolute number of hit-and-run incidents saw a minimal increase, rising from 3,595 to 3,623.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
6
Pedestrians Killed
127
Motorists Killed
234
Pedestrians Injured
8,039
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · 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, with Friday being the peak day for crashes in both August 2025 (3,785 crashes) and August 2024 (3,848 crashes). The 4 p.m. hour was also the peak hour in both periods, with 1,796 crashes in the current month compared to 1,763 in the prior year. While the overall daily distribution was similar, Tuesday (2,947 crashes) replaced Thursday (2,933 crashes) as the second-busiest day for crashes in August 2025.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The distribution of crash severity saw minimal changes year-over-year. Fatal crashes accounted for 0.6% of all incidents in both August 2025 (122 crashes) and August 2024 (118 crashes). Crashes resulting in minor injuries saw a slight proportional increase from 14.1% to 14.4% of all crashes. Correspondingly, the proportion of no-injury crashes decreased slightly from 72.3% to 71.9%.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 122 fatal crash events resulted in 133 persons killed.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Environmental conditions during crashes shifted between the two periods. In August 2025, crashes in clear weather constituted 79.9% of the total, up from 76.1% in the prior year. Correspondingly, crashes occurring in the rain dropped from 5.9% to 3.1% of all incidents. This pattern is reflected in road surface conditions, where crashes on dry roads increased from 90.3% to 94.3% of the total, while crashes on wet surfaces decreased from 9.1% to 5.2%.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The top three vehicle makes involved in crashes remained consistent year-over-year: Chevrolet, Ford, and Honda, with all three seeing a minor increase in total counts. An analysis of persons involved in crashes shows a slight demographic shift. The proportion of individuals aged 16-20 decreased from 12.0% to 11.5% of all persons involved, while the proportion of those aged 65 and older increased from 11.7% to 12.2%.
Top Vehicle Makes (38,204 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · Vehicle unit records
3,047 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (45,700 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31 · 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: 2025-08-01 through 2025-08-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-08-01 through 2025-08-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 20,621
- Total persons involved: 48,258
- Total vehicles involved: 38,204
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 2025." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2025-08-01 to 2025-08-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/august-2025-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: 2025-08-01 – 2025-08-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved