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Fatal crash rate · South Carolina

Fatal crash rate in Jasper County, South Carolina

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

Jasper County, South Carolina2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

41.3fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 15 fatal crashes in Jasper County, South Carolina, where 36,338 people lived. That is 41.3 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 17 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 53.1.

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

Per 100,000
15 fatal crashes ÷ 36,338 residents × 100,000 = 41.3
Five-year
86 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 161,988 resident-years × 100,000 = 53.1
Same year
South Carolina: 948 ÷ 5,490,316 = 17.3 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
2020141429,15848.0
2021192330,44162.4
2022212332,06865.5
2023171933,98350.0
2024151736,33841.3

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 86 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Jasper County, South Carolina over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate1720%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial2327%
Minor arterial1821%
Major collector1821%
Minor collector11%
Local road910%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural6879%
Urban1821%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am1922%
6 am to 11:59 am2023%
Noon to 5:59 pm2023%
6 pm to 11:59 pm2731%
Hour unknown00%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight3338%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)4755%
Dark, lighted22%
Dawn or dusk45%
Unknown or not reported00%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear7385%
Cloudy45%
Rain89%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke11%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported00%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian910%
A bicyclist or other cyclist33%
A speeding-related vehicle3844%
A driver police reported as drinking2327%
Most-named roadsCrashes
I-9516
US-17 SPEEDWAY BLVD4
SR-4623
US-173
SR-46 PLANTATION DRIVE3

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.