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Traffic deaths in Georgia in 2021

State in United States

Deaths, 2021
1,809
Fatal crashes
1,681
Population
10.8M

In 2021, 1,809 people died in 1,681 fatal crashes in Georgia, about 5 a day. That was 9.1% more than in 2020 (1,658) and the most in any year since 1975. The death rate was 16.8 per 100,000 residents, compared with 13.0 in the United States. Georgia had the 4th most traffic deaths of the 51 states and DC and the 13th-highest death rate. Pedestrians accounted for 17% of deaths, and 20% of fatal crashes were speeding-related.

Deaths

Traffic deaths

16.8

deaths per 100,000 residents in 2021

  • About 1.3 times the rate in the United States: 13.0

+9%

change in deaths from 2020 to 2021

1,658 deaths in 2020, 1,809 in 2021

  • The United States: +11%

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 2021
Category Deaths
Vehicle occupants and others 1,291
Pedestrians 307
Motorcyclists 196
Cyclists 15
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Deaths by type, 2021
Type Deaths Share in Georgia Share in the US
Pedestrians 307 17% 17%
Motorcyclists 196 11% 14%
Cyclists 15 1% 2%
Alcohol-impaired driving crashes 470 26% 31%
Speeding-related crashes 378 21% 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

20%

of fatal crashes were speeding-related

  • About three-quarters of the share in the United States: 28%

17%

of fatal crashes involved a drinking driver

  • About two-thirds of the share in the United States: 26%
Crash factors in 2021
Category Georgia United States
Speeding-related 16.8% 26.3%
Alcohol-involved 20.4% 28.2%
At night 54.0% 53.9%
At weekends 30.3% 32.8%

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: 54%

30%

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 85
1am 52
2am 57
3am 49
4am 40
5am 50
6am 68
7am 64
8am 35
9am 47
10am 43
11am 48
12pm 65
1pm 63
2pm 70
3pm 95
4pm 78
5pm 95
6pm 96
7pm 114
8pm 107
9pm 104
10pm 86
11pm 67

All crashes 2021.

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Fatal crashes by day of week
Category Fatal crashes
Sun 245
Mon 249
Tue 184
Wed 228
Thu 241
Fri 269
Sat 265

All crashes 2021.

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Fatal crashes by month
Category Fatal crashes
Jan 127
Feb 116
Mar 142
Apr 136
May 142
Jun 154
Jul 128
Aug 123
Sep 135
Oct 168
Nov 144
Dec 166

All crashes 2021.

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Conditions

Weather and light

Weather at the time of the crash
Category Fatal crashes
Clear 1,199
Cloudy 304
Rain 151
Fog, Smog, Smoke 20
Other 1
Snow 1

All crashes 2021. 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 784
Dark - Not Lighted 614
Dark - Lighted 224
Dusk 34
Dawn 22
Dark - Unknown Lighting 2

All crashes 2021. Crashes where conditions were not reported are left out.

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Roads and vehicles

Where and what, 2021

Roads with the most fatal crashes

  1. I-7555
  2. I-8547
  3. I-2038
  4. SR-333
  5. I-28531
  6. SR-126
  7. SR-1120
  8. SR-1020
  9. SR-13814
  10. I-9513

Road names as recorded in police reports.

Vehicles involved, by type
Category Vehicles
Cars 1,075
SUVs 512
Pickup trucks 449
Medium and heavy trucks 248
Motorcycles 200
Vans 86
Other vehicles 79
Buses 5
Other light trucks 2

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Vehicles most often involved

  1. Ford F-15089
  2. Toyota Camry74
  3. Honda Accord72
  4. Chevrolet Silverado72
  5. Nissan Altima68
  6. Freightliner Cascadia42
  7. Honda Civic40
  8. Dodge Ram40
  9. GMC Sierra35
  10. Toyota Tacoma34

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 2021. Crashes without reported coordinates are not shown.

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Date Location Deaths
Nov 14, 2021 Gwinnett County 1
Nov 14, 2021 Coweta County 1
Nov 13, 2021 Forsyth County 1
Nov 13, 2021 Spalding County 1
Nov 13, 2021 Thomasville, Thomas County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Fairburn, Fulton County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Monroe County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Social Circle, Walton County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Jefferson County 2
Nov 12, 2021 Decatur County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Macon County 1
Nov 12, 2021 Rockdale County 1
Nov 11, 2021 Catoosa County 1
Nov 10, 2021 Colquitt County 2
Nov 10, 2021 Colquitt County 1
Nov 10, 2021 Douglas County 1
Nov 10, 2021 Decatur County 1
Nov 10, 2021 Douglas County 1
Nov 10, 2021 Milledgeville, Baldwin County 1
Nov 9, 2021 Walton County 1
Nov 9, 2021 Macon, Bibb County 1
Nov 9, 2021 Houston County 1
Nov 8, 2021 Barrow County 1
Nov 8, 2021 Sharpsburg, Coweta County 1
Nov 8, 2021 Canton, Cherokee County 1

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Counties in Georgia in 2021

Area Deaths, 2021 Per 100,000
Appling County 4 21.7
Atkinson County 2 23.9
Bacon County 1 9.0
Baker County 2 71.0
Baldwin County 10 22.9
Banks County 7 37.6
Barrow County 18 20.7
Bartow County 32 28.9
Ben Hill County 1 5.8
Berrien County 3 16.5
Bibb County 49 31.4
Bleckley County 2 16.3
Brantley County 1 5.5
Brooks County 8 49.2
Bryan County 8 17.0
Bulloch County 20 24.8
Burke County 11 45.2
Butts County 5 19.1
Calhoun County 0 —
Camden County 4 7.2
Candler County 2 18.3
Carroll County 23 19.0
Catoosa County 10 14.6
Charlton County 1 7.8
Chatham County 40 13.5
Chattahoochee County 3 33.3
Chattooga County 4 16.1
Cherokee County 13 4.7
Clarke County 22 17.0
Clay County 4 139.4
Clayton County 65 21.8
Clinch County 6 89.4
Cobb County 65 8.5
Coffee County 13 30.2
Colquitt County 17 37.1
Columbia County 8 5.0
Cook County 6 34.8
Coweta County 26 17.3
Crawford County 4 33.0
Crisp County 8 40.0
Dade County 3 18.5
Dawson County 5 17.5
DeKalb County 145 19.1
Decatur County 11 37.6
Dodge County 0 —
Dooly County 2 18.4
Dougherty County 17 20.7
Douglas County 23 15.8
Early County 3 28.2
Echols County 0 —
Effingham County 4 6.0
Elbert County 7 35.7
Emanuel County 8 35.0
Evans County 4 37.3
Fannin County 1 3.9
Fayette County 17 14.1
Floyd County 26 26.4
Forsyth County 16 6.1
Franklin County 15 63.8
Fulton County 153 14.4
Gilmer County 11 34.3
Glascock County 0 —
Glynn County 16 18.9
Gordon County 10 17.2
Grady County 6 23.2
Greene County 6 30.7
Gwinnett County 51 5.3
Habersham County 9 19.3
Hall County 30 14.5
Hancock County 4 46.0
Haralson County 4 13.1
Harris County 6 16.8
Hart County 5 19.0
Heard County 4 34.8
Henry County 33 13.5
Houston County 17 10.2
Irwin County 1 10.7
Jackson County 13 16.2
Jasper County 2 13.1
Jeff Davis County 2 13.5
Jefferson County 3 19.4
Jenkins County 4 45.5
Johnson County 1 11.1
Jones County 2 7.1
Lamar County 3 16.0
Lanier County 3 29.9
Laurens County 15 30.3
Lee County 10 30.1
Liberty County 14 20.9
Lincoln County 5 64.5
Long County 2 11.7
Lowndes County 28 23.5
Lumpkin County 8 24.4
Macon County 4 33.7
Madison County 9 29.1
Marion County 1 13.5
McDuffie County 3 13.9
McIntosh County 4 36.1
Meriwether County 11 53.1
Miller County 2 34.2
Mitchell County 3 14.1
Monroe County 7 24.3
Montgomery County 3 34.7
Morgan County 6 29.0
Murray County 7 17.5
Muscogee County 27 13.2
Newton County 29 25.2
Oconee County 3 7.0
Oglethorpe County 12 79.1
Paulding County 22 12.7
Peach County 5 17.7
Pickens County 5 14.7
Pierce County 3 15.0
Pike County 0 —
Polk County 13 30.0
Pulaski County 1 10.5
Putnam County 8 35.4
Quitman County 1 44.7
Rabun County 8 46.6
Randolph County 2 31.9
Richmond County 45 21.9
Rockdale County 19 20.2
Schley County 2 44.6
Screven County 5 35.6
Seminole County 0 —
Spalding County 13 19.2
Stephens County 6 22.4
Stewart County 3 60.9
Sumter County 8 27.6
Talbot County 3 52.1
Taliaferro County 4 254.9
Tattnall County 5 20.7
Taylor County 4 51.5
Telfair County 0 —
Terrell County 1 11.2
Thomas County 9 19.6
Tift County 6 14.6
Toombs County 6 22.3
Towns County 2 15.5
Treutlen County 1 15.7
Troup County 19 27.2
Turner County 2 22.4
Twiggs County 7 89.1
Union County 3 11.7
Upson County 4 14.4
Walker County 16 23.4
Walton County 17 17.0
Ware County 8 22.5
Warren County 1 19.2
Washington County 6 30.4
Wayne County 6 19.9
Webster County 0 —
Wheeler County 3 38.7
White County 9 31.7
Whitfield County 29 28.2
Wilcox County 2 22.9
Wilkes County 3 31.6
Wilkinson County 4 45.5
Worth County 13 63.3

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Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2021. A fatal crash is one in which at least one person died within 30 days. Population: US Census Bureau estimates.