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YEAR-OVER-YEAR CRASH REPORT · VERMONT, VT · FEBRUARY 2025
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Monthly Traffic Safety Analysis
644 CRASHES IN
VERMONT, VT
FEBRUARY 2025
In February 2025, Vermont recorded 644 total traffic crashes, an increase of 13.8% from the 566 crashes documented in February 2024. Despite the rise in overall collisions, the number of fatalities decreased from 5 to 2 over the same period. This resulted in a lower fatal crash rate, which fell from 0.88 to 0.31 per 100 crashes.
644
▲ 13.8%was 566
Total Crash Events
2
▼ -60.0%was 5
Fatal Crashes
114
▼ -8.1%was 124
Injury Crashes
2
▼ -60.0%was 5
Fatal Crash Events
Note: "Fatal Crashes" and "Injury Crashes" count crash events — this source publishes crash-level counts only, not individual persons. 9 crashes with unreported severity are not shown in the severity breakdown.
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Aggregate counts from crash, person, and vehicle records
Trend Summary
Year-over-year data for February shows an increase in the total number of traffic collisions in Vermont. Crashes rose from 566 in February 2024 to 644 in February 2025, a 13.8% increase. However, the outcomes of these crashes were less severe, with total injuries declining by 8.1% from 124 to 114 and fatalities dropping from 5 to 2.
When Crashes Happen
The temporal patterns of crashes showed some shifts between February 2024 and February 2025. While Thursday was a peak day for collisions in both periods, Monday also emerged as a joint peak day in the current year with 108 crashes, up from 75 the prior year. The peak hour for crashes remained consistent at 3 p.m., with the number of incidents during this hour increasing from 47 to 54. Morning commute hours also saw a rise in crashes, particularly between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Crash date field aggregated by weekday
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Crash time field aggregated by hour (0-23)
Crash Severity Breakdown
A comparison of crash severity reveals a trend toward less severe outcomes in February 2025 compared to the previous year. The proportion of crashes resulting in an injury fell from 21.9% to 17.7%. Correspondingly, the share of crashes with no injuries increased from 76.0% to 80.6%. Most notably, fatal crashes decreased from 5 to 2, causing the fatal crash rate to drop from 0.88 to 0.31 per 100 collisions.
Outcome by Severity (Crash Events)
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Severity derived from reported fatal/injury indicators (no KABCO A/B/C codes)
Severity Distribution (Crash Events)
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Most severe injury per crash record
Road & Environmental Conditions
Environmental conditions during crashes differed significantly year-over-year, pointing to more adverse weather in February 2025. The number of crashes occurring during freezing precipitation increased from 48 to 145. This is reflected in road surface data, where crashes on snow-covered roads rose from 54 to 183, and collisions on icy roads increased from 18 to 41. Conversely, crashes on dry roads decreased from 320 to 165, suggesting a shift from clear-weather to winter-weather related incidents.
Weather
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Weather condition at time of crash
Lighting
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Lighting condition field
Road Surface
Source: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis Open Data · 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28 · Road surface condition field
Data Sources & Methodology
Primary Data Source
All crash data in this report is sourced from Vermont Crash Data, accessed programmatically via the Arcgis 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: Arcgis 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: 2025-02-01 through 2025-02-28
- Report generated: July 5, 2026
Data Coverage
- Reporting period: 2025-02-01 through 2025-02-28 (28 days)
- Geographic scope: vermont, VT
- Total crash records analyzed: 644
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). "vermont, VT Crash Intelligence Report: February 2025." Published July 5, 2026. Reporting period: 2025-02-01 to 2025-02-28. Data source: Vermont Crash Data, Arcgis Open Data. Available at: https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/vermont/statewide/february-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
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An Injuria.ai Company
Crash Data Intelligence
Data: Vermont Crash Data · Arcgis
Period: 2025-02-01 – 2025-02-28
Generated: July 5, 2026 · All rights reserved