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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · AUSTIN, TX · JULY 2018
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Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
1,254 CRASHES IN
AUSTIN, TX
JULY 2018
In July 2018, Austin recorded 1,254 traffic crashes, a 3.2% decrease from the 1,296 crashes reported in July 2017. Despite the overall reduction in collisions, the number of fatalities more than doubled, rising from 4 in the prior period to 9 in the current period. This increase in fatalities, alongside a near-stable number of total injuries (796 in 2018 vs. 799 in 2017), marks the most significant year-over-year change in the data.
1,254
▼ -3.2%was 1,296
Total Crash Events
9
▲ 125.0%was 4
Persons Killed
796
▼ -0.4%was 799
Persons Injured
9
▲ 125.0%was 4
Fatal Crash Events
Note: "Persons Killed" (9) counts individual fatalities across all crash events. "Fatal" in the severity table below (9) counts crash events where at least one fatality occurred. A single crash can result in multiple fatalities.
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Year-over-year, the total number of crashes in Austin for July saw a slight decline, falling by 3.2% from 1,296 in 2017 to 1,254 in 2018. While the total number of injuries remained nearly constant, decreasing by just 0.4% from 799 to 796, fatalities increased significantly from 4 to 9. This indicates a trend of fewer overall crashes but a higher number of fatal outcomes during this period.
Vulnerable Road User Casualties
5
Pedestrians Killed
3
Motorists Killed
0
Pedestrians Injured
0
Motorists Injured
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · 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 some shifts between July 2017 and July 2018. The peak day for crashes moved from Monday, with 215 crashes in the prior year, to Tuesday with 229 crashes in the current period. The peak hour for collisions remained unchanged at 5 p.m., though the volume of crashes during that hour increased from 108 to 125. Overall, weekend crashes (Saturday and Sunday) decreased from 380 to 330.
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
The severity of crashes worsened in July 2018 compared to the previous year, with the fatal crash rate more than doubling from 0.31% to 0.72%. Fatal crashes accounted for 0.7% of all incidents, up from 0.3% in July 2017. Conversely, the proportion of crashes resulting in serious or minor injuries decreased; serious injury crashes fell from 3.2% to 2.8% and minor injury crashes dropped from 20.7% to 18.7% of the total.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · KABCO injury classification scale
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · Most severe injury per crash record
Speed Limit Zones
The distribution of crashes across different speed zones remained relatively consistent year-over-year, but the location of fatal crashes shifted. In July 2018, crashes in zones of 55 mph and higher accounted for 5 of the 7 fatal crashes with recorded speed limits, an increase from 3 such fatal crashes in the prior year. The 60 mph zone saw an increase from 1 to 3 fatal crashes, and new fatalities were recorded in the 40 mph and 45 mph zones, which had none in July 2017. Zones with speed limits of 35 mph or less recorded no fatal crashes in 2018, down from one in the prior year.
Fatal crashes by zone: 40 mph: 1 of 70 (1.429%) · 45 mph: 1 of 139 (0.719%) · 55 mph: 2 of 110 (1.818%) · 60 mph: 3 of 58 (5.172%)
Source: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata Open Data · 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31 · Posted speed limit at crash location
Data Sources & Methodology
Primary Data Source
All crash data in this report is sourced from Austin Crash Reports (https://data.austintexas.gov/d/y2wy-tgr5), accessed programmatically via the Socrata 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: Socrata Open Data API (SoQL queries)
- Dataset URL: https://data.austintexas.gov/d/y2wy-tgr5
- Data format: Structured JSON via REST API
- Record types queried: Crash events, person records, and vehicle unit records
- Date filter applied: 2018-07-01 through 2018-07-31
- Report generated: July 6, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2018-07-01 through 2018-07-31 (31 days)
- Geographic scope: Austin, TX
- Total crash records analyzed: 1,254
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.
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Suggested Citation
ThatCarHitMe.com (Injuria.ai). "Austin, TX Crash Intelligence Report: July 2018." Published July 6, 2026. Reporting period: 2018-07-01 to 2018-07-31. Data source: Austin Crash Reports, Socrata Open Data. Dataset: https://data.austintexas.gov/d/y2wy-tgr5. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/texas/austin/july-2018-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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An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Austin Crash Reports · Socrata
Period: 2018-07-01 – 2018-07-31
Generated: July 6, 2026 · All rights reserved