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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · OHIO, OH · OCTOBER 2022
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GET: https://thatcarhitme.com/api/crash-data/reports/data/ohio/statewide/october-2022-report
Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
24,958 CRASHES IN
OHIO, OH
OCTOBER 2022
In October 2022, there were 24,958 traffic crashes statewide, a 6.1% decrease from the 26,589 crashes recorded in October 2021. Despite the overall decline in collisions, the number of fatal crashes increased from 107 to 115 year-over-year. Total fatalities remained nearly unchanged at 118 in the current period compared to 119 in the prior period.
24,958
▼ -6.1%was 26,589
Total Crash Events
118
▼ -0.8%was 119
Persons Killed
9,009
▼ -4.8%was 9,466
Persons Injured
4,195
▼ -9.8%was 4,652
Hit-and-Run Crashes
Note: "Persons Killed" (118) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (115) 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 · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Overall traffic crash trends showed a decrease in October 2022 compared to the same month in 2021. Total crashes fell by 6.1% from 26,589 to 24,958, and total injuries declined by 4.8% from 9,466 to 9,009. However, total fatalities remained stable, with 118 deaths recorded compared to 119 in the prior year.
4,195
Hit-and-Run Crashes — October 2022
▼ -9.8% vs prior (4,652)
The number of hit-and-run incidents decreased in October 2022 compared to the previous year. There were 4,195 hit-and-run crashes, down from 4,652 in October 2021. This represents a downward trend in the hit-and-run rate, which fell from 17.5% to 16.8% of all crashes.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
15
Pedestrians Killed
103
Motorists Killed
233
Pedestrians Injured
8,776
Motorists Injured
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Mode classified from person records (driver/passenger → motorist; pedestrian; bicyclist → cyclist; in-line skater / unspecified → other)
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes shifted between October 2021 and October 2022. The peak day for crashes moved from Friday (5,416 crashes) in the prior period to Monday (4,162 crashes) in the current period. The peak hour for collisions remained consistent at the 4 p.m. hour in both periods, though the number of crashes during this hour decreased from 2,076 to 1,978.
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
While total crashes decreased, the severity of crashes increased year-over-year. The number of fatal crashes rose from 107 to 115, and their proportion of all crashes increased from 0.4% to 0.5%. Similarly, serious injury crashes increased in both count (from 562 to 610) and proportion (from 2.1% to 2.4% of all crashes).
Severity is per crash event (most severe injury). 115 fatal crash events resulted in 118 persons killed.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Crash conditions in October 2022 were markedly different from the prior year, with a higher proportion of incidents occurring in favorable weather. Crashes in clear weather constituted 70.4% of the total (17,583), up from 53.8% (14,299) in October 2021. Correspondingly, crashes on wet roads decreased from 7,559 (28.4% of total) to 3,348 (13.4% of total), and crashes in rain dropped from 5,062 to 2,199.
Weather
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Road surface condition field
Vehicles & Demographics
The top three vehicle makes involved in crashes remained Chevrolet, Ford, and Honda in both periods, with counts for each decreasing in line with the overall trend. Chevrolet-involved vehicles dropped from 6,855 to 6,593, and Ford-involved vehicles decreased from 6,758 to 6,217. An analysis of persons involved in crashes shows a relatively stable age distribution, with a slight proportional increase in the 65+ age group, which accounted for 10.6% of persons involved in October 2022 compared to 9.9% in the prior year.
Top Vehicle Makes (44,602 vehicles)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · Vehicle unit records
4,100 persons with unknown or unrecorded age excluded from age chart.
Sex Distribution (53,454 persons with recorded sex)
Source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS) · Csv Open Data · 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31 · 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: 2022-10-01 through 2022-10-31
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2022-10-01 through 2022-10-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: ohio, OH
- Total crash records analyzed: 24,958
- Total persons involved: 56,551
- Total vehicles involved: 44,602
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: October 2022." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2022-10-01 to 2022-10-31. Data source: Ohio Crash Data (ODOT TIMS), Csv Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/october-2022-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: 2022-10-01 – 2022-10-31
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved