Fatal crash rate · Connecticut
Fatal crash rate in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Litchfield County, Connecticut, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.
Litchfield County, Connecticut2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
14fatal crashes in 2024 · 14 deaths
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 14 fatal crashes in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in which 14 people died. No rate is shown here; the reason is below.
Every year, 2020 to 2024
| Year | Fatal crashes | Deaths | Population | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 19 | 21 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | 18 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | 25 | — | — |
| 2023 | 25 | 26 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | 14 | — | — |
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 101 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Litchfield County, Connecticut over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 0 | 0% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 14 | 14% |
| Other principal arterial | 36 | 36% |
| Minor arterial | 30 | 30% |
| Major collector | 12 | 12% |
| Minor collector | 2 | 2% |
| Local road | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Rural | 40 | 40% |
| Urban | 61 | 60% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 7 | 7% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 13 | 13% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 45 | 45% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 34 | 34% |
| Hour unknown | 2 | 2% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 62 | 61% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 29 | 29% |
| Dark, lighted | 7 | 7% |
| Dawn or dusk | 3 | 3% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 87 | 86% |
| Cloudy | 5 | 5% |
| Rain | 6 | 6% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 2 | 2% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 0 | 0% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 1 | 1% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 6 | 6% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 2 | 2% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 40 | 40% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 24 | 24% |
| Most-named roads | Crashes |
|---|---|
| SR-8 | 13 |
| US-202 | 10 |
| US-7 | 7 |
| US-44 | 5 |
| SR-800 | 3 |
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 theFATALSfield. Counties are the FARSSTATEandCOUNTYcodes 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.