Fatal crash rate in Barren County, Kentucky
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Barren County, Kentucky, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.
Barren County, Kentucky2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
15.4fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 7 fatal crashes in Barren County, Kentucky, where 45,412 people lived. That is 15.4 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 7 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 20.9.
The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Barren County; the white posts are Kentucky and the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 7 fatal crashes ÷ 45,412 residents × 100,000 = 15.4
- Five-year
- 47 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 224,445 resident-years × 100,000 = 20.9
- Same year
- Kentucky: 663 ÷ 4,584,046 = 14.5 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7
Every year, 2020 to 2024
| Year | Fatal crashes | Deaths | Population | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | 9 | 44,508 | 20.2 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 | 44,604 | 20.2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 14 | 44,854 | 26.8 |
| 2023 | 10 | 12 | 45,067 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 45,412 | 15.4 |
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 47 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Barren County, Kentucky over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 3 | 6% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 1 | 2% |
| Other principal arterial | 3 | 6% |
| Minor arterial | 14 | 30% |
| Major collector | 10 | 21% |
| Minor collector | 8 | 17% |
| Local road | 8 | 17% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Rural | 43 | 91% |
| Urban | 4 | 9% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 2 | 4% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 14 | 30% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 22 | 47% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 9 | 19% |
| Hour unknown | 0 | 0% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 37 | 79% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 8 | 17% |
| Dark, lighted | 1 | 2% |
| Dawn or dusk | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 40 | 85% |
| Cloudy | 2 | 4% |
| Rain | 5 | 11% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 0 | 0% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 0 | 0% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 3 | 6% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 0 | 0% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 7 | 15% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 7 | 15% |
| Most-named roads | Crashes |
|---|---|
| SR-9008 | 4 |
| I-65 | 3 |
| SR-90 HAPPY VALLEY RD | 3 |
| SR-1297 OLD BOWLING GREEN RD | 3 |
| US-31E SCOTTSVILLE RD | 2 |
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.