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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · JULY 2024
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Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
18,959 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
JULY 2024
In July 2024, Ohio recorded 18,959 traffic crashes, a 5.4% decrease from the 20,033 crashes reported in July 2023. This downward trend was also reflected in crash outcomes, with total fatalities declining by 13.3% from 120 to 104 year-over-year. The number of persons injured also fell by 4.8% during the same period, from 8,170 to 7,779.
18,959
▼ -5.4%was 20,033
Total Crash Events
104
▼ -13.3%was 120
Persons Killed
7,779
▼ -4.8%was 8,170
Persons Injured
3,345
▼ -13.4%was 3,863
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (104) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (98) 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 · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Statewide crash data indicates a general downward trend in July 2024 compared to the same month in the prior year. Total crashes decreased by 5.4%, from 20,033 to 18,959. Similarly, the number of fatalities dropped from 120 to 104, and total injuries declined from 8,170 to 7,779.
3,345
Hit-and-Run Crashes — July 2024
▼ -13.4% vs prior (3,863)
Incidents of hit-and-run crashes saw a notable decline in both volume and rate compared to the previous year. The total number of hit-and-run crashes fell by 13.4%, from 3,863 in July 2023 to 3,345 in July 2024. Consequently, the hit-and-run rate, representing the proportion of all crashes that were hit-and-runs, decreased from 19.3% to 17.6%.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
17
Pedestrians Killed
87
Motorists Killed
196
Pedestrians Injured
7,583
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes showed a notable shift between July 2023 and July 2024. The most frequent day for crashes moved from Monday (3,319 incidents) in the prior year to Wednesday (3,498 incidents) in the current period. The peak hour for collisions also shifted two hours earlier, from 5 p.m. in 2023 to 3 p.m. in 2024, which recorded 1,636 crashes.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The severity of crashes saw a slight decrease in fatal outcomes year-over-year. The fatal crash rate fell from 0.57% of all crashes in July 2023 to 0.52% in July 2024. The proportion of crashes resulting in any type of injury remained relatively stable, accounting for 28.2% of all incidents in the current period compared to 27.8% in the prior period. Specifically, serious injury crashes made up 3.2% of the total, a slight increase from 3.1% a year ago.
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 98 fatal crash events resulted in 104 persons killed.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Crashes in July 2024 occurred more frequently under favorable conditions compared to the previous year. The proportion of collisions on dry roads increased from 84.7% to 87.9%, while crashes in rainy conditions decreased from 9.3% to 7.5% of the total. Similarly, a larger share of crashes happened in daylight, rising from 75.3% in July 2023 to 77.4% in July 2024.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The composition of vehicles and persons involved in crashes remained largely consistent year-over-year. The top three vehicle makes involved in collisions were unchanged: Chevrolet (4,843), Ford (4,648), and Honda (3,159), all showing slight decreases in total numbers from July 2023. The age distribution of individuals involved in crashes also showed little change, with the 26-34 age group representing the largest share in both periods (15.5% in 2024 vs. 15.7% in 2023).
Top Vehicle Makes (34,524 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · Vehicle unit records
2,910 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (41,484 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31 · 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: 2024-07-01 through 2024-07-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2024-07-01 through 2024-07-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 18,959
- Total persons involved: 43,781
- Total vehicles involved: 34,524
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: July 2024." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2024-07-01 to 2024-07-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/july-2024-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.
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ThatCarHitMe.com · An Injuria.ai Company
ThatCarHitMe.com
An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv
Period: 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved