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Traffic deaths in Georgia in 2023

State in United States

Deaths, 2023
1,610
Fatal crashes
1,486
Population
11.1M

In 2023, 1,610 people died in 1,486 fatal crashes in Georgia, about 4 a day. That was 10.4% fewer than in 2022 (1,796) and the fewest since 2019. The death rate was 14.6 per 100,000 residents, compared with 12.2 in the United States. Georgia had the 4th most traffic deaths of the 51 states and DC and the 17th-highest death rate. Pedestrians accounted for 19% of deaths, and 20% of fatal crashes were speeding-related.

Deaths

Traffic deaths

14.6

deaths per 100,000 residents in 2023

  • About 1.2 times the rate in the United States: 12.2

-10%

change in deaths from 2022 to 2023

1,796 deaths in 2022, 1,610 in 2023

  • The United States: -4%

Georgia traffic deaths by year goes back to 1975.

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

Road users

Who died

19%

of deaths were pedestrians

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 18%
Who died in 2023
Category Deaths
Vehicle occupants and others 1,080
Pedestrians 310
Motorcyclists 196
Cyclists 24
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Deaths by type, 2023
Type Deaths Share in Georgia Share in the US
Pedestrians 310 19% 18%
Motorcyclists 196 12% 16%
Cyclists 24 1% 3%
Alcohol-impaired driving crashes 427 27% 30%
Speeding-related crashes 347 22% 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 70 percent of the share in the United States: 28%

18%

of fatal crashes involved a drinking driver

  • About two-thirds of the share in the United States: 26%
Crash factors in 2023
Category Georgia United States
Speeding-related 18.0% 25.6%
Alcohol-involved 20.2% 28.2%
At night 56.8% 54.1%
At weekends 34.2% 33.5%

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

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Timing

When crashes happen

57%

of fatal crashes happened at night

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 54%

34%

of fatal crashes happened at weekends

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 34%
Fatal crashes by hour of day
Category Fatal crashes
12am 79
1am 60
2am 49
3am 56
4am 44
5am 46
6am 67
7am 50
8am 36
9am 42
10am 31
11am 32
12pm 52
1pm 59
2pm 63
3pm 70
4pm 71
5pm 68
6pm 82
7pm 102
8pm 83
9pm 86
10pm 90
11pm 67

All crashes 2023.

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Fatal crashes by day of week
Category Fatal crashes
Sun 228
Mon 196
Tue 164
Wed 205
Thu 176
Fri 237
Sat 280

All crashes 2023.

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Fatal crashes by month
Category Fatal crashes
Jan 132
Feb 119
Mar 109
Apr 99
May 111
Jun 136
Jul 133
Aug 134
Sep 114
Oct 138
Nov 125
Dec 136

All crashes 2023.

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Conditions

Weather and light

Weather at the time of the crash
Category Fatal crashes
Clear 1,086
Cloudy 250
Rain 125
Fog, Smog, Smoke 20
Other 3
Severe Crosswinds 1

All crashes 2023. 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 653
Dark - Not Lighted 585
Dark - Lighted 207
Dusk 23
Dawn 17
Dark - Unknown Lighting 1

All crashes 2023. Crashes where conditions were not reported are left out.

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Roads and vehicles

Where and what, 2023

Roads with the most fatal crashes

  1. I-7554
  2. I-2035
  3. I-8526
  4. I-28523
  5. I-9517
  6. SR-1713
  7. I-1612
  8. US-19 SR-312
  9. SR-2010
  10. US-27 SR-17

Road names as recorded in police reports.

Vehicles involved, by type
Category Vehicles
Cars 866
SUVs 478
Pickup trucks 378
Motorcycles 204
Medium and heavy trucks 192
Other vehicles 86
Vans 59
Buses 7

All crashes 2023.

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Vehicles most often involved

  1. Ford F-15092
  2. Chevrolet Silverado58
  3. Honda Accord55
  4. Nissan Altima51
  5. Toyota Camry45
  6. Toyota Corolla36
  7. Honda Civic34
  8. Chevrolet Tahoe33
  9. Freightliner Cascadia32
  10. Ford F-25027

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 2023. Crashes without reported coordinates are not shown.

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Crash factors
Date Location Deaths
Aug 23, 2023 Hiawassee, Towns County 1
Aug 23, 2023 Decatur, DeKalb County 1
Aug 23, 2023 Atlanta, DeKalb County 1
Aug 23, 2023 Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County 1
Aug 22, 2023 Hogansville, Troup County 1
Aug 22, 2023 Covington, Newton County 1
Aug 22, 2023 Statesboro, Bulloch County 3
Aug 21, 2023 Paulding County 1
Aug 21, 2023 Covington, Newton County 2
Aug 20, 2023 Atlanta, Fulton County 1
Aug 20, 2023 Savannah, Chatham County 1
Aug 20, 2023 Lowndes County 1
Aug 20, 2023 Dawson, Terrell County 1
Aug 19, 2023 Atlanta, Fulton County 1
Aug 19, 2023 Cartersville, Bartow County 1
Aug 19, 2023 Fort Oglethorpe, Walker County 1
Aug 19, 2023 Wayne County 1
Aug 18, 2023 Habersham County 1
Aug 18, 2023 Bulloch County 2
Aug 18, 2023 Toccoa, Stephens County 1
Aug 18, 2023 Macon, Bibb County 1
Aug 17, 2023 Cave Spring, Floyd County 1
Aug 17, 2023 Gordon County 2
Aug 16, 2023 Snellville, Gwinnett County 1
Aug 16, 2023 Ludowici, Long County 1

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Counties in Georgia in 2023

Area Deaths, 2023 Per 100,000
Appling County 3 16.2
Atkinson County 3 36.0
Bacon County 0 —
Baker County 0 —
Baldwin County 6 13.8
Banks County 3 15.0
Barrow County 13 13.9
Bartow County 23 20.0
Ben Hill County 3 17.5
Berrien County 3 16.1
Bibb County 37 23.6
Bleckley County 6 48.1
Brantley County 8 43.5
Brooks County 5 30.8
Bryan County 10 20.1
Bulloch County 17 20.2
Burke County 6 24.6
Butts County 7 26.0
Calhoun County 0 —
Camden County 13 22.5
Candler County 4 36.1
Carroll County 21 16.6
Catoosa County 6 8.7
Charlton County 3 23.1
Chatham County 39 12.8
Chattahoochee County 1 11.7
Chattooga County 10 39.7
Cherokee County 26 9.1
Clarke County 19 14.6
Clay County 2 70.1
Clayton County 37 12.4
Clinch County 1 14.7
Cobb County 54 6.9
Coffee County 7 16.1
Colquitt County 11 23.7
Columbia County 5 3.0
Cook County 7 39.4
Coweta County 22 14.1
Crawford County 0 —
Crisp County 2 10.2
Dade County 4 24.7
Dawson County 6 18.8
DeKalb County 151 19.7
Decatur County 11 37.7
Dodge County 6 30.3
Dooly County 5 45.2
Dougherty County 7 8.5
Douglas County 15 10.0
Early County 1 9.4
Echols County 1 26.9
Effingham County 8 11.2
Elbert County 6 29.9
Emanuel County 5 21.6
Evans County 1 9.3
Fannin County 7 27.0
Fayette County 10 8.1
Floyd County 26 25.9
Forsyth County 16 5.8
Franklin County 5 20.1
Fulton County 112 10.3
Gilmer County 5 15.2
Glascock County 1 33.8
Glynn County 12 13.9
Gordon County 17 28.4
Grady County 4 15.3
Greene County 2 9.7
Gwinnett County 67 6.8
Habersham County 20 41.1
Hall County 14 6.4
Hancock County 1 11.4
Haralson County 6 18.7
Harris County 11 30.0
Hart County 6 21.8
Heard County 5 41.6
Henry County 28 11.0
Houston County 13 7.6
Irwin County 5 54.8
Jackson County 14 15.7
Jasper County 5 30.3
Jeff Davis County 2 13.4
Jefferson County 3 19.6
Jenkins County 3 34.8
Johnson County 0 —
Jones County 4 13.8
Lamar County 2 9.8
Lanier County 2 19.3
Laurens County 16 32.0
Lee County 5 14.8
Liberty County 11 16.1
Lincoln County 2 25.4
Long County 2 10.2
Lowndes County 18 14.9
Lumpkin County 7 19.9
Macon County 2 16.9
Madison County 7 21.7
Marion County 4 53.4
McDuffie County 4 18.3
McIntosh County 9 77.8
Meriwether County 1 4.8
Miller County 3 51.9
Mitchell County 7 33.7
Monroe County 5 16.3
Montgomery County 3 34.2
Morgan County 4 18.6
Murray County 15 36.6
Muscogee County 26 12.9
Newton County 24 20.0
Oconee County 3 6.8
Oglethorpe County 2 12.7
Paulding County 23 12.6
Peach County 12 41.4
Pickens County 7 19.5
Pierce County 4 19.6
Pike County 8 39.1
Polk County 12 27.0
Pulaski County 2 19.7
Putnam County 3 12.9
Quitman County 0 —
Rabun County 4 22.9
Randolph County 0 —
Richmond County 51 24.8
Rockdale County 7 7.3
Schley County 0 —
Screven County 4 28.1
Seminole County 2 22.0
Spalding County 16 22.9
Stephens County 8 29.3
Stewart County 2 42.8
Sumter County 3 10.3
Talbot County 3 52.5
Taliaferro County 2 124.8
Tattnall County 3 12.3
Taylor County 2 25.7
Telfair County 0 —
Terrell County 3 34.3
Thomas County 11 24.0
Tift County 7 16.8
Toombs County 6 22.1
Towns County 6 46.1
Treutlen County 0 —
Troup County 17 23.8
Turner County 3 33.6
Twiggs County 6 78.3
Union County 6 22.1
Upson County 5 17.7
Walker County 12 17.2
Walton County 7 6.5
Ware County 7 19.2
Warren County 5 97.6
Washington County 4 20.2
Wayne County 9 28.7
Webster County 1 42.4
Wheeler County 3 42.4
White County 7 24.2
Whitfield County 12 11.5
Wilcox County 5 56.8
Wilkes County 1 10.5
Wilkinson County 5 57.1
Worth County 6 29.7

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Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2023. A fatal crash is one in which at least one person died within 30 days. Population: US Census Bureau estimates.