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Traffic deaths in Texas in 2023

State in United States

Deaths, 2023
4,294
Fatal crashes
3,877
Population
30.7M

In 2023, 4,294 people died in 3,877 fatal crashes in Texas, about 12 a day. That was 2.6% fewer than in 2022 (4,408) and the fewest since 2020. The death rate was 14.0 per 100,000 residents, compared with 12.2 in the United States. Texas had the most traffic deaths of any state and the 19th-highest death rate. Pedestrians accounted for 19% of deaths, and 34% of fatal crashes were speeding-related.

Deaths

Traffic deaths

14.0

deaths per 100,000 residents in 2023

  • About 1.1 times the rate in the United States: 12.2

-3%

change in deaths from 2022 to 2023

4,408 deaths in 2022, 4,294 in 2023

  • The United States: -4%

Texas 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 2,789
Pedestrians 801
Motorcyclists 598
Cyclists 106
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Deaths by type, 2023
Type Deaths Share in Texas Share in the US
Pedestrians 801 19% 18%
Motorcyclists 598 14% 16%
Cyclists 106 2% 3%
Alcohol-impaired driving crashes 1,676 39% 30%
Speeding-related crashes 1,486 35% 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

34%

of fatal crashes were speeding-related

  • About 1.2 times the share in the United States: 28%

25%

of fatal crashes involved a drinking driver

  • About the same as the share in the United States: 26%
Crash factors in 2023
Category Texas United States
Speeding-related 25.1% 25.6%
Alcohol-involved 34.1% 28.2%
At night 58.5% 54.1%
At weekends 35.2% 33.5%

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

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Timing

When crashes happen

58%

of fatal crashes happened at night

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

35%

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 190
1am 152
2am 203
3am 124
4am 114
5am 143
6am 203
7am 123
8am 88
9am 95
10am 107
11am 90
12pm 124
1pm 136
2pm 147
3pm 151
4pm 181
5pm 162
6pm 223
7pm 210
8pm 226
9pm 282
10pm 208
11pm 192

All crashes 2023.

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Fatal crashes by day of week
Category Fatal crashes
Sun 708
Mon 496
Tue 447
Wed 471
Thu 531
Fri 566
Sat 658

All crashes 2023.

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Fatal crashes by month
Category Fatal crashes
Jan 313
Feb 265
Mar 319
Apr 308
May 308
Jun 348
Jul 337
Aug 349
Sep 335
Oct 350
Nov 309
Dec 336

All crashes 2023.

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Conditions

Weather and light

Weather at the time of the crash
Category Fatal crashes
Clear 3,019
Cloudy 581
Rain 220
Fog, Smog, Smoke 34
Sleet or Hail 11
Freezing Rain or Drizzle 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 1,545
Dark - Not Lighted 1,237
Dark - Lighted 936
Dawn 63
Dusk 52
Dark - Unknown Lighting 31

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-1073
  2. I-3552
  3. I-2051
  4. I-4543
  5. US-28733
  6. I35 FRONTAGE30
  7. US-5930
  8. SR-7123
  9. US-8422
  10. US-28122

Road names as recorded in police reports.

Vehicles involved, by type
Category Vehicles
Cars 1,881
Pickup trucks 1,395
SUVs 1,209
Medium and heavy trucks 714
Motorcycles 609
Other vehicles 201
Vans 150
Buses 17
Other light trucks 6

All crashes 2023.

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Vehicles most often involved

  1. Chevrolet Silverado371
  2. Ford F-150265
  3. Ford F-250119
  4. GMC Sierra115
  5. Ram 1500105
  6. Dodge Ram94
  7. Freightliner Cascadia94
  8. Toyota Camry90
  9. Nissan Altima89
  10. Honda Accord85

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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Date Location Deaths
Aug 14, 2023 Fort Worth, Tarrant County 1
Aug 14, 2023 Lancaster, Dallas County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Houston, Harris County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Hidalgo County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Dallas, Dallas County 2
Aug 13, 2023 Woodway, McLennan County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Winkler County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Laredo, Webb County 4
Aug 13, 2023 Chambers County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Houston, Harris County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Hutchinson County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Westlake, Denton County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Nueces County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Johnson County 2
Aug 13, 2023 Baytown, Harris County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Garland, Dallas County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Harris County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Hunt County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Burleson, Johnson County 1
Aug 13, 2023 Lubbock, Lubbock County 1
Aug 12, 2023 Chambers County 2
Aug 12, 2023 Wilbarger County 1
Aug 12, 2023 Midland County 1
Aug 12, 2023 Jefferson County 1
Aug 12, 2023 Dallas, Dallas County 1

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Counties in Texas in 2023

Area Deaths, 2023 Per 100,000
Anderson County 16 27.1
Andrews County 6 32.2
Angelina County 20 22.8
Aransas County 9 35.5
Archer County 6 66.3
Armstrong County 3 164.0
Atascosa County 14 26.9
Austin County 5 15.7
Bailey County 1 14.7
Bandera County 6 26.5
Bastrop County 33 29.6
Baylor County 3 86.2
Bee County 4 12.7
Bell County 58 14.7
Bexar County 213 10.1
Blanco County 8 61.2
Borden County 1 174.5
Bosque County 7 37.0
Bowie County 15 16.4
Brazoria County 34 8.5
Brazos County 13 5.3
Brewster County 6 62.8
Briscoe County 0 —
Brooks County 1 14.5
Brown County 7 18.2
Burleson County 6 30.8
Burnet County 13 23.9
Caldwell County 13 25.9
Calhoun County 2 10.1
Callahan County 7 48.5
Cameron County 41 9.6
Camp County 2 15.3
Carson County 7 119.0
Cass County 8 27.9
Castro County 1 13.7
Chambers County 22 40.7
Cherokee County 14 26.6
Childress County 5 73.9
Clay County 3 28.0
Cochran County 1 39.5
Coke County 2 59.2
Coleman County 6 76.2
Collin County 62 5.1
Collingsworth County 4 157.2
Colorado County 9 42.4
Comal County 33 17.0
Comanche County 9 64.1
Concho County 2 58.3
Cooke County 17 38.8
Coryell County 10 11.7
Cottle County 0 —
Crane County 1 21.9
Crockett County 8 281.1
Crosby County 2 40.3
Culberson County 4 181.4
Dallam County 0 —
Dallas County 336 12.7
Dawson County 8 67.2
DeWitt County 6 29.6
Deaf Smith County 2 10.9
Delta County 3 54.4
Denton County 53 5.2
Dickens County 1 58.7
Dimmit County 10 120.6
Donley County 3 94.1
Duval County 4 41.5
Eastland County 13 71.3
Ector County 47 28.3
Edwards County 3 214.1
El Paso County 101 11.6
Ellis County 37 16.6
Erath County 5 11.3
Falls County 11 62.3
Fannin County 18 47.5
Fayette County 5 19.7
Fisher County 2 55.3
Floyd County 0 —
Fort Bend County 44 4.8
Franklin County 5 46.7
Freestone County 13 63.8
Frio County 8 43.2
Gaines County 10 44.3
Galveston County 39 10.8
Garza County 4 88.0
Gillespie County 8 28.8
Glasscock County 3 259.7
Goliad County 2 27.9
Gonzales County 7 35.0
Gray County 3 14.3
Grayson County 16 10.9
Gregg County 27 21.4
Grimes County 17 52.2
Guadalupe County 21 11.1
Hale County 4 12.5
Hall County 0 —
Hamilton County 2 23.2
Hansford County 1 19.7
Hardeman County 3 87.0
Hardin County 14 24.0
Harris County 537 11.0
Harrison County 22 31.0
Hartley County 2 39.1
Haskell County 1 18.4
Hays County 36 12.8
Henderson County 22 25.5
Hidalgo County 84 9.3
Hill County 18 47.1
Hockley County 10 46.9
Hood County 8 11.8
Hopkins County 13 34.0
Houston County 7 31.7
Howard County 11 35.8
Hudspeth County 4 117.7
Hunt County 35 30.8
Hutchinson County 7 35.0
Irion County 0 —
Jack County 6 65.2
Jackson County 6 39.5
Jasper County 11 33.6
Jeff Davis County 2 108.0
Jefferson County 31 12.2
Jim Hogg County 3 64.4
Jim Wells County 16 41.3
Johnson County 31 15.2
Jones County 4 19.2
Karnes County 10 66.8
Kaufman County 23 12.3
Kendall County 6 11.9
Kenedy County 1 288.2
Kent County 0 —
Kerr County 16 29.7
Kimble County 6 133.9
King County 3 1,415.1
Kinney County 3 94.8
Kleberg County 2 6.6
Knox County 2 60.3
La Salle County 10 153.0
Lamar County 17 33.2
Lamb County 5 39.3
Lampasas County 1 4.3
Lavaca County 6 29.2
Lee County 3 16.4
Leon County 16 96.5
Liberty County 24 22.0
Limestone County 6 26.7
Lipscomb County 0 —
Live Oak County 7 59.2
Llano County 11 47.9
Loving County 3 6,521.7
Lubbock County 59 18.4
Lynn County 4 68.7
Madison County 7 50.9
Marion County 8 82.3
Martin County 13 246.4
Mason County 1 25.4
Matagorda County 6 16.6
Maverick County 10 17.2
McCulloch County 1 13.3
McLennan County 34 12.7
McMullen County 1 173.3
Medina County 12 21.9
Menard County 3 153.2
Midland County 44 24.6
Milam County 18 69.1
Mills County 0 —
Mitchell County 4 44.0
Montague County 9 41.6
Montgomery County 64 8.9
Moore County 5 23.5
Morris County 0 —
Motley County 1 97.9
Nacogdoches County 18 27.4
Navarro County 18 32.3
Newton County 3 24.8
Nolan County 8 56.2
Nueces County 45 12.8
Ochiltree County 0 —
Oldham County 4 225.6
Orange County 18 21.0
Palo Pinto County 6 20.1
Panola County 14 61.4
Parker County 23 13.3
Parmer County 2 20.8
Pecos County 8 54.4
Polk County 25 46.6
Potter County 24 20.8
Presidio County 3 52.4
Rains County 0 —
Randall County 17 11.5
Reagan County 3 94.4
Real County 3 105.4
Red River County 3 25.6
Reeves County 5 41.9
Refugio County 7 104.6
Robertson County 3 17.3
Rockwall County 12 9.1
Runnels County 4 40.4
Rusk County 19 35.6
Sabine County 2 19.7
San Augustine County 2 25.4
San Jacinto County 8 27.4
San Patricio County 16 22.6
San Saba County 4 72.3
Schleicher County 5 212.3
Scurry County 6 37.1
Shackelford County 2 62.1
Shelby County 8 32.9
Sherman County 3 111.3
Smith County 72 29.3
Somervell County 5 50.6
Starr County 5 7.6
Stephens County 0 —
Sterling County 2 145.6
Stonewall County 0 —
Sutton County 0 —
Swisher County 2 29.0
Tarrant County 217 9.9
Taylor County 11 7.5
Terrell County 0 —
Terry County 6 51.9
Throckmorton County 1 65.5
Titus County 4 12.7
Tom Green County 17 14.2
Travis County 159 11.7
Trinity County 1 7.0
Tyler County 5 24.5
Upshur County 9 20.7
Upton County 4 128.0
Uvalde County 5 20.0
Val Verde County 6 12.6
Van Zandt County 20 31.2
Victoria County 17 18.5
Walker County 13 15.8
Waller County 15 23.3
Ward County 8 72.9
Washington County 6 16.1
Webb County 27 9.9
Wharton County 14 33.4
Wheeler County 5 103.7
Wichita County 22 16.9
Wilbarger County 10 79.9
Willacy County 1 5.0
Williamson County 43 6.1
Wilson County 6 11.1
Winkler County 7 91.8
Wise County 22 28.2
Wood County 17 35.3
Yoakum County 4 53.8
Young County 3 16.5
Zapata County 2 14.5
Zavala County 16 170.8

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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.