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Fatal crash rate · Colorado

Fatal crash rate in Teller County, Colorado

Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Teller County, Colorado, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.

Teller County, Colorado2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

0.0fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

NHTSA recorded no fatal crashes in Teller County, Colorado in 2024, where 24,743 people lived. Over 2020 to 2022 the average was 12.1.

The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Teller County; the white posts are Colorado and the United States.

Per 100,000
0 fatal crashes ÷ 24,743 residents × 100,000 = 0.0
Five-year
9 crashes (2020 to 2022) ÷ 74,554 resident-years × 100,000 = 12.1
Same year
Colorado: 642 ÷ 5,988,502 = 10.7 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
20204524,74616.2
20212224,9548.0
20223324,85412.1
20230024,6780.0
20240024,7430.0

2024 is NHTSA’s Annual Report File and will be revised when the final file replaces it. Populations are July 1 estimates, Census Vintage 2025.

What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024

Every figure is a count of the 9 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Teller County, Colorado over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial444%
Minor arterial222%
Major collector222%
Minor collector111%
Local road00%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural889%
Urban111%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am111%
6 am to 11:59 am222%
Noon to 5:59 pm667%
6 pm to 11:59 pm00%
Hour unknown00%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight889%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)111%
Dark, lighted00%
Dawn or dusk00%
Unknown or not reported00%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear333%
Cloudy00%
Rain00%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain111%
Fog, smog or smoke00%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported556%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian00%
A bicyclist or other cyclist00%
A speeding-related vehicle111%
A driver police reported as drinking111%
Most-named roadsCrashes
US-245
CR-422
MORNING SUN DR1
SR-671
CR-111

Road type is FARS FUNC_SYS; speeding is any vehicle coded SPEEDREL 2 to 5; drinking is any driver coded DRINKING = 1 (police-reported, not a blood-alcohol test). Road names are the trafficway strings as the police coded them, counted as written, so the same road can appear under two spellings.

How this is counted

  • Fatal crashes are rows in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) file FARS2024NationalCSV.zip, accident.csv, one row per crash on a public road in which someone died within 30 days. Deaths are the FATALS field. Counties are the FARS STATE and COUNTY codes joined to Census FIPS codes.
  • Population is the Census Bureau’s July 1 estimate for the same year, county totals, Vintage 2025. Rate per 100,000 = crashes ÷ population × 100,000.
  • The five-year average is total crashes over the years with both inputs ÷ total population over those years × 100,000, the rolling form in 23 CFR 490.207.
  • What it cannot say. FARS has no injury-only or property-damage crashes, no congestion, and nothing about any one driver, trip or road’s risk. A crash is counted where it happened, not where the people lived. Rates are not ranked here; comparing two places means comparing both sets of inputs.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Data snapshot built 2026-10-28.