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Traffic deaths in New York

Deaths, 2024: 1,101
Fatal crashes: 1,036
Population: 20M

In 2024, 1,101 people died in 1,036 fatal crashes in New York, about 3 a day. That was 1.4% fewer than in 2023 (1,117) and the fewest since 2020. The death rate was 5.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with 11.5 in the United States. New York had the 11th most traffic deaths of the 51 states and DC and the 49th-highest death rate. Pedestrians accounted for 26% of deaths, and 32% of fatal crashes were speeding-related.

Deaths

Traffic deaths

5.5

deaths per 100,000 residents in 2024

About half the rate in the United States: 11.5

-1%

change in deaths from 2023 to 2024

1,117 deaths in 2023, 1,101 in 2024

The United States: -4%

Traffic deaths by year, 1975–2024

Category	Deaths	Fatal crashes
1975	2,366	2,123
1976	2,291	2,062
1977	2,336	2,119
1978	2,436	2,200
1979	2,396	2,217
1980	2,610	2,374
1981	2,489	2,280
1982	2,162	1,965
1983	2,077	1,918
1984	2,060	1,886
1985	2,006	1,852
1986	2,121	1,949
1987	2,339	2,119
1988	2,256	2,064
1989	2,260	2,078
1990	2,217	2,036
1991	2,008	1,827
1992	1,815	1,657
1993	1,790	1,637
1994	1,678	1,537
1995	1,679	1,567
1996	1,593	1,450
1997	1,652	1,510
1998	1,514	1,404
1999	1,599	1,473
2000	1,460	1,369
2001	1,564	1,441
2002	1,530	1,411
2003	1,493	1,368
2004	1,495	1,372
2005	1,434	1,332
2006	1,454	1,349
2007	1,332	1,237
2008	1,238	1,174
2009	1,158	1,069
2010	1,201	1,128
2011	1,171	1,093
2012	1,180	1,096
2013	1,202	1,124
2014	1,041	980
2015	1,136	1,061
2016	1,041	981
2017	1,006	939
2018	964	910
2019	934	879
2020	1,045	958
2021	1,156	1,098
2022	1,182	1,111
2023	1,117	1,035
2024	1,101	1,036

People who died within 30 days of a crash. A fatal crash can kill more than one person.

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Deaths per 100,000 residents, 2000–2024

Category	Deaths per 100,000
2000	7.7
2001	8.2
2002	8.0
2003	7.8
2004	7.8
2005	7.5
2006	7.6
2007	7.0
2008	6.4
2009	6.0
2010	6.2
2011	6.0
2012	6.0
2013	6.1
2014	5.3
2015	5.8
2016	5.3
2017	5.1
2018	4.9
2019	4.8
2020	5.2
2021	5.8
2022	6.0
2023	5.7
2024	5.5

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

Road users

Who died

26%

of deaths were pedestrians

About 1.5 times the share in the United States: 18%

Who died in 2024

Category	Deaths
Vehicle occupants and others	556
Pedestrians	289
Motorcyclists	209
Cyclists	47

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Deaths by type, 2024
Type	Deaths	Share in New York	Share in the US
Pedestrians	289	26%	18%
Motorcyclists	209	19%	16%
Cyclists	47	4%	3%
Alcohol-impaired driving crashes	300	27%	30%
Speeding-related crashes	364	33%	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

32%

of fatal crashes were speeding-related

About 1.1 times the share in the United States: 28%

13%

of fatal crashes involved a drinking driver

About half the share in the United States: 25%

Crash factors in 2024

Category	New York	United States
Speeding-related	13.3%	24.8%
Alcohol-involved	32.0%	28.1%
At night	49.1%	53.6%
At weekends	31.0%	32.6%

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

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Timing

When crashes happen

49%

of fatal crashes happened at night

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

31%

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	224
1am	192
2am	162
3am	142
4am	158
5am	173
6am	176
7am	172
8am	128
9am	149
10am	178
11am	161
12pm	186
1pm	234
2pm	248
3pm	256
4pm	255
5pm	304
6pm	334
7pm	303
8pm	301
9pm	305
10pm	265
11pm	230

All crashes 2020–2024.

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Fatal crashes by day of week

Category	Fatal crashes
Sun	787
Mon	676
Tue	670
Wed	674
Thu	730
Fri	792
Sat	909

All crashes 2020–2024.

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Fatal crashes by month

Category	Fatal crashes
Jan	330
Feb	332
Mar	313
Apr	334
May	462
Jun	484
Jul	511
Aug	564
Sep	530
Oct	501
Nov	467
Dec	410

All crashes 2020–2024.

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Conditions

Weather and light

Weather at the time of the crash

Category	Fatal crashes
Clear	3,350
Cloudy	1,254
Rain	466
Snow	84
Fog, Smog, Smoke	37
Other	2

All crashes 2020–2024. 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	2,488
Dark - Lighted	1,595
Dark - Not Lighted	885
Dusk	146
Dawn	106
Dark - Unknown Lighting	13

All crashes 2020–2024. Crashes where conditions were not reported are left out.

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Roads and vehicles

Where and what, 2020–2024

Roads with the most fatal crashes

I-8768
I-49546
SR-908M SOUTHERN STATE PKWY41
US-941
I-9037
SR-27 SUNRISE HWY37
US-1130
US-9W29
SR-25 MIDDLE COUNTRY RD27
SR-2226

Road names as recorded in police reports.

Vehicles involved, by type

Category	Vehicles
Cars	2,650
SUVs	1,951
Motorcycles	1,063
Pickup trucks	711
Medium and heavy trucks	618
Vans	350
Other vehicles	244
Buses	73
Other light trucks	18

All crashes 2020–2024.

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Vehicles most often involved

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Crashes

Fatal crashes

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Fatal crashes in 2024. Crashes without reported coordinates are not shown.

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Who died Time of day Day Weather Lighting Vehicle type involved Make involved

Alcohol-involved Speeding-related Distracted driver

Date	Location	Road	Deaths
Aug 31, 2023	Oyster Bay, Nassau County	SPLIT ROCK RD	1
Aug 31, 2023	Webster, Monroe County	SR-104	2
Aug 31, 2023	Felts Mills, Jefferson County	SR-3	1
Aug 30, 2023	Burlington Flats, Otsego County	SR-28	1
Aug 30, 2023	New York City, Kings County	3RD AVE	1
Aug 30, 2023	Carmel, Putnam County	SR-301	1
Aug 29, 2023	Cheektowaga, Erie County	SR-130 BROADWAY ST	1
Aug 29, 2023	Brentwood, Suffolk County	CR-13 CROOKED HILL RD	1
Aug 29, 2023	New York City, Bronx County	WHITE PLAINS RD	1
Aug 29, 2023	Lake Placid, Essex County	SR-86	1
Aug 28, 2023	Hancock, Delaware County	SR-17	1
Aug 27, 2023	Huntington, Suffolk County	CR-11 E PULASKI RD	1
Aug 27, 2023	Falconer, Chautauqua County	SR-394 E MAIN ST	1
Aug 26, 2023	Hartsdale, Westchester County	E HARTSDALE AVE	1
Aug 26, 2023	Sodus, Wayne County	CR-101 LAKE RD	1
Aug 26, 2023	Hudson Falls, Washington County	US-4	1
Aug 26, 2023	New York City, Queens County	I-495	1
Aug 26, 2023	Cortland, Cortland County	I-81	1
Aug 25, 2023	Islip, Suffolk County	SR-27A MONTAUK HWY	1
Aug 25, 2023	Oswego, Oswego County	CHAPEL RD	1
Aug 25, 2023	Wolcott, Wayne County	SR-89	1
Aug 24, 2023	Brentwood, Suffolk County	COMMUNITY COLLEGE DR	1
Aug 24, 2023	Hempstead, Nassau County	SR-908E MEADOWBROOK STATE PKWY	2
Aug 24, 2023	Syracuse, Onondaga County	I-81	1
Aug 24, 2023	New York City, Queens County	I-678 WHITESTONE EXPY	2

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Counties in New York

Area	Deaths, 2024	Per 100,000
Albany County	17	5.3
Allegany County	8	17.1
Bronx County	52	3.7
Broome County	10	5.1
Cattaraugus County	7	9.3
Cayuga County	9	12.1
Chautauqua County	12	9.6
Chemung County	9	11.1
Chenango County	7	15.3
Clinton County	5	6.4
Columbia County	5	8.3
Cortland County	4	8.7
Delaware County	13	29.2
Dutchess County	36	12.0
Erie County	55	5.8
Essex County	6	16.4
Franklin County	3	6.4
Fulton County	8	15.3
Genesee County	3	5.1
Greene County	7	14.8
Hamilton County	1	19.7
Herkimer County	9	15.2
Jefferson County	8	7.1
Kings County	64	2.4
Lewis County	3	11.3
Livingston County	6	9.8
Madison County	10	14.9
Monroe County	47	6.3
Montgomery County	1	2.0
Nassau County	65	4.7
New York County	40	2.4
Niagara County	18	8.6
Oneida County	16	7.0
Onondaga County	34	7.3
Ontario County	10	8.9
Orange County	39	9.4
Orleans County	3	7.5
Oswego County	12	10.2
Otsego County	7	11.5
Putnam County	9	9.1
Queens County	73	3.1
Rensselaer County	13	8.1
Richmond County	13	2.6
Rockland County	17	4.8
Saratoga County	14	5.8
Schenectady County	17	10.5
Schoharie County	2	6.6
Schuyler County	3	17.5
Seneca County	3	9.2
St. Lawrence County	14	13.2
Steuben County	4	4.4
Suffolk County	120	7.8
Sullivan County	18	22.2
Tioga County	10	21.0
Tompkins County	4	3.8
Ulster County	23	12.6
Warren County	9	13.8
Washington County	8	13.4
Wayne County	9	9.9
Westchester County	42	4.2
Wyoming County	1	2.5
Yates County	6	24.6

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Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2020–2024. A fatal crash is one in which at least one person died within 30 days. Population: US Census Bureau estimates.

Category	Fatal crashes
Jan	330
Feb	332
Mar	313
Apr	334
May	462
Jun	484
Jul	511
Aug	564
Sep	530
Oct	501
Nov	467
Dec	410

Category	Fatal crashes
Jan	330
Feb	332
Mar	313
Apr	334
May	462
Jun	484
Jul	511
Aug	564
Sep	530
Oct	501
Nov	467
Dec	410

Category	Fatal crashes
Jan	330
Feb	332
Mar	313
Apr	334
May	462
Jun	484
Jul	511
Aug	564
Sep	530
Oct	501
Nov	467
Dec	410