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Traffic deaths in Georgia in 2020

State in United States

Deaths, 2020
1,658
Fatal crashes
1,517
Population
10.7M

In 2020, 1,658 people died in 1,517 fatal crashes in Georgia, about 5 a day. The death rate was 15.4 per 100,000 residents, compared with 11.8 in the United States. Georgia had the 4th most traffic deaths of the 51 states and DC and the 14th-highest death rate. Pedestrians accounted for 17% of deaths, and 22% of fatal crashes were speeding-related.

Deaths

Traffic deaths

15.4

deaths per 100,000 residents in 2020

  • About 1.3 times the rate in the United States: 11.8

Georgia traffic deaths by year goes back to 1975.

Profile by year: 2024 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020

Road users

Who died

17%

of deaths were pedestrians

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 17%
Who died in 2020
Category Deaths
Vehicle occupants and others 1,155
Pedestrians 279
Motorcyclists 192
Cyclists 32
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Deaths by type, 2020
Type Deaths Share in Georgia Share in the US
Pedestrians 279 17% 17%
Motorcyclists 192 12% 14%
Cyclists 32 2% 2%
Alcohol-impaired driving crashes 371 22% 30%
Speeding-related crashes 380 23% 29%

Alcohol-impaired and speeding-related count everyone killed in those crashes, so a death can appear in more than one row.

Crash factors

Speeding, alcohol, night and weekend crashes

22%

of fatal crashes were speeding-related

  • About three-quarters of the share in the United States: 29%

24%

of fatal crashes involved a drinking driver

  • About 90 percent of the share in the United States: 27%
Crash factors in 2020
Category Georgia United States
Speeding-related 24.0% 26.7%
Alcohol-involved 22.2% 28.6%
At night 54.4% 53.4%
At weekends 33.4% 32.9%

Share of fatal crashes. Alcohol-involved means a police-reported drinking driver.

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Timing

When crashes happen

54%

of fatal crashes happened at night

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 53%

33%

of fatal crashes happened at weekends

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 33%
Fatal crashes by hour of day
Category Fatal crashes
12am 66
1am 50
2am 46
3am 29
4am 41
5am 44
6am 70
7am 61
8am 42
9am 35
10am 47
11am 40
12pm 47
1pm 62
2pm 67
3pm 68
4pm 65
5pm 81
6pm 102
7pm 101
8pm 90
9pm 87
10pm 88
11pm 82

All crashes 2020.

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Fatal crashes by day of week
Category Fatal crashes
Sun 232
Mon 189
Tue 200
Wed 199
Thu 185
Fri 238
Sat 274

All crashes 2020.

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Fatal crashes by month
Category Fatal crashes
Jan 94
Feb 107
Mar 128
Apr 81
May 112
Jun 108
Jul 136
Aug 145
Sep 153
Oct 175
Nov 146
Dec 132

All crashes 2020.

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Conditions

Weather and light

Weather at the time of the crash
Category Fatal crashes
Clear 1,059
Cloudy 261
Rain 170
Fog, Smog, Smoke 18
Snow 3
Other 1

All crashes 2020. Crashes where conditions were not reported are left out.

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Light conditions at the time of the crash
Category Fatal crashes
Daylight 684
Dark - Not Lighted 597
Dark - Lighted 168
Dusk 33
Dawn 29
Dark - Unknown Lighting 2

All crashes 2020. Crashes where conditions were not reported are left out.

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Roads and vehicles

Where and what, 2020

Roads with the most fatal crashes

  1. I-7535
  2. I-28524
  3. I-2021
  4. SR-320
  5. I-8519
  6. SR-114
  7. SR-1511
  8. SR-8511
  9. I-75 N10
  10. I-9510

Road names as recorded in police reports.

Vehicles involved, by type
Category Vehicles
Cars 949
Pickup trucks 423
SUVs 418
Medium and heavy trucks 231
Motorcycles 196
Other vehicles 85
Vans 65
Buses 10
Other light trucks 4

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Vehicles most often involved

  1. Chevrolet Silverado82
  2. Ford F-15074
  3. Honda Accord59
  4. Toyota Camry56
  5. Nissan Altima54
  6. Honda Civic47
  7. Toyota Corolla32
  8. GMC Sierra32
  9. Dodge Ram32
  10. Ford F-25029

Reflects how common a vehicle is as well as crash involvement; not a safety rating.

Crashes

Fatal crashes

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Fatal crashes in 2020. Crashes without reported coordinates are not shown.

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Date Location Deaths
Jul 4, 2020 Jefferson County 1
Jul 4, 2020 Hiram, Paulding County 1
Jul 4, 2020 Newton County 1
Jul 4, 2020 Brooks County 1
Jul 4, 2020 DeKalb County 1
Jul 4, 2020 Atlanta, Fulton County 1
Jul 3, 2020 Dallas, Paulding County 1
Jul 3, 2020 Wilcox County 1
Jul 2, 2020 Wayne County 1
Jul 1, 2020 Troup County 4
Jul 1, 2020 Wilcox County 1
Jul 1, 2020 McDuffie County 1
Jun 30, 2020 Wayne County 1
Jun 30, 2020 Peach County 1
Jun 30, 2020 Carroll County 1
Jun 29, 2020 Ben Hill County 1
Jun 28, 2020 Crisp County 1
Jun 28, 2020 Albany, Dougherty County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Ben Hill County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Forest Park, Clayton County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Morrow, Clayton County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Gwinnett County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Hazlehurst, Jeff Davis County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Lincoln County 1
Jun 27, 2020 Lizella, Bibb County 1

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Counties in Georgia in 2020

Area Deaths, 2020 Per 100,000
Appling County 6 32.7
Atkinson County 1 12.0
Bacon County 4 36.0
Baker County 3 105.3
Baldwin County 11 25.1
Banks County 2 11.0
Barrow County 18 21.4
Bartow County 28 25.6
Ben Hill County 3 17.5
Berrien County 5 27.6
Bibb County 33 21.0
Bleckley County 7 55.9
Brantley County 4 22.2
Brooks County 2 12.3
Bryan County 5 11.1
Bulloch County 24 30.0
Burke County 6 24.4
Butts County 11 43.1
Calhoun County 1 17.9
Camden County 6 10.9
Candler County 4 36.2
Carroll County 23 19.3
Catoosa County 10 14.7
Charlton County 2 16.0
Chatham County 34 11.5
Chattahoochee County 1 10.6
Chattooga County 9 36.1
Cherokee County 21 7.8
Clarke County 13 10.1
Clay County 1 35.3
Clayton County 49 16.4
Clinch County 1 14.9
Cobb County 84 11.0
Coffee County 15 34.8
Colquitt County 14 30.5
Columbia County 11 7.0
Cook County 8 46.4
Coweta County 24 16.4
Crawford County 2 16.5
Crisp County 6 29.9
Dade County 4 24.6
Dawson County 4 14.8
DeKalb County 91 11.9
Decatur County 3 10.2
Dodge County 6 30.1
Dooly County 5 44.8
Dougherty County 17 20.0
Douglas County 13 9.0
Early County 1 9.3
Echols County 1 26.9
Effingham County 10 15.3
Elbert County 6 30.5
Emanuel County 5 21.9
Evans County 5 46.3
Fannin County 9 35.4
Fayette County 6 5.0
Floyd County 10 10.1
Forsyth County 12 4.7
Franklin County 10 42.6
Fulton County 145 13.6
Gilmer County 5 15.9
Glascock County 2 69.0
Glynn County 17 20.1
Gordon County 5 8.7
Grady County 9 34.3
Greene County 3 15.8
Gwinnett County 57 5.9
Habersham County 4 8.7
Hall County 30 14.8
Hancock County 5 57.4
Haralson County 14 46.6
Harris County 4 11.5
Hart County 3 11.6
Heard County 1 8.7
Henry County 28 11.6
Houston County 18 11.0
Irwin County 0 —
Jackson County 12 15.6
Jasper County 2 13.6
Jeff Davis County 9 60.8
Jefferson County 5 31.9
Jenkins County 1 11.5
Johnson County 2 21.8
Jones County 3 10.6
Lamar County 4 21.6
Lanier County 2 20.2
Laurens County 13 26.2
Lee County 3 9.0
Liberty County 32 49.0
Lincoln County 5 64.9
Long County 3 18.5
Lowndes County 12 10.1
Lumpkin County 7 20.8
Macon County 12 99.9
Madison County 5 16.5
Marion County 3 39.8
McDuffie County 4 18.5
McIntosh County 7 63.7
Meriwether County 9 43.7
Miller County 1 16.7
Mitchell County 3 13.8
Monroe County 13 46.3
Montgomery County 2 23.4
Morgan County 8 39.6
Murray County 9 22.5
Muscogee County 20 9.7
Newton County 22 19.5
Oconee County 7 16.7
Oglethorpe County 4 26.9
Paulding County 26 15.3
Peach County 10 35.6
Pickens County 10 30.0
Pierce County 5 25.3
Pike County 3 15.8
Polk County 12 28.0
Pulaski County 3 30.4
Putnam County 3 13.5
Quitman County 0 —
Rabun County 8 47.3
Randolph County 2 31.4
Richmond County 30 14.5
Rockdale County 17 18.2
Schley County 0 —
Screven County 5 35.5
Seminole County 5 54.8
Spalding County 15 22.2
Stephens County 5 18.6
Stewart County 3 56.7
Sumter County 2 6.8
Talbot County 2 34.9
Taliaferro County 3 192.6
Tattnall County 6 24.7
Taylor County 2 25.6
Telfair County 4 32.1
Terrell County 3 32.8
Thomas County 10 21.8
Tift County 7 16.9
Toombs County 7 25.8
Towns County 3 23.9
Treutlen County 4 62.5
Troup County 14 20.2
Turner County 1 11.1
Twiggs County 3 37.5
Union County 5 20.2
Upson County 4 14.4
Walker County 12 17.7
Walton County 9 9.3
Ware County 9 24.8
Warren County 4 76.8
Washington County 5 25.1
Wayne County 8 26.5
Webster County 0 —
Wheeler County 3 40.3
White County 3 10.7
Whitfield County 16 15.6
Wilcox County 5 56.9
Wilkes County 4 41.9
Wilkinson County 7 79.3
Worth County 7 33.8

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Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2020. A fatal crash is one in which at least one person died within 30 days. Population: US Census Bureau estimates.