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Fatal crashes on SR-8 in Georgia

Every fatal crash NHTSA coded to State Route 8 in Georgia, 2020 to 2024, with the year, the county and what the record says about each. Fatal crashes only, and a count, not a rate: the federal record has no traffic volume for a road.

SR-8 in Georgia2020 to 2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

47fatal crashes over five years · 50 deaths

Over 2020 to 2024, NHTSA recorded 47 fatal crashes on SR-8 in Georgia, in which 50 people died. That is 1% of the 7,673 fatal crashes recorded in Georgia in those years, about 9 a year. In 2024, the latest year, 7 were recorded.

No rate. A county has residents and a state has vehicle-miles, so each gets a rate. A road has neither in any federal file: FHWA publishes no traffic volume per route, and FARS carries no length. The count says how many fatal crashes were coded to this road, not how dangerous a mile of it is or how it compares with another road.
Counted
FARS crashes 2020 to 2024 in Georgia whose TWAY_ID or TWAY_ID2 begins SR-8
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47 ÷ 7,673 fatal crashes in Georgia = 1%

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashes on SR-8DeathsFatal crashes in GeorgiaShare
2020991,5171%
202112141,6811%
202217181,6771%
2023221,4860%
2024771,3121%

2024 is NHTSA’s Annual Report File and will be revised when the final file replaces it.

Where on SR-8: by county, 2020 to 2024

The counties the crashes were coded to, alphabetical. A road’s count in a county depends on how many miles of it run there and how busy they are; the page does not rank the counties. Each name opens the county page with its own rate.

What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024

Every figure is a count of the 47 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to SR-8 in Georgia over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial1430%
Minor arterial2962%
Major collector24%
Minor collector12%
Local road12%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural817%
Urban3983%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am1430%
6 am to 11:59 am511%
Noon to 5:59 pm817%
6 pm to 11:59 pm1940%
Hour unknown12%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight1430%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)1634%
Dark, lighted1532%
Dawn or dusk12%
Unknown or not reported12%
Day of weekCrashesShare
Sunday817%
Monday613%
Tuesday36%
Wednesday817%
Thursday715%
Friday613%
Saturday919%
MonthCrashesShare
January49%
February36%
March613%
April36%
May24%
June36%
July24%
August49%
September919%
October511%
November24%
December49%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear3064%
Cloudy1123%
Rain511%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke00%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported12%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian1430%
A bicyclist or other cyclist12%
A speeding-related vehicle511%
A driver police reported as drinking511%
A large truck (over 10,000 lb)919%
A motorcycle1123%
A hit-and-run vehicle12%
A teen driver (15 to 19)49%

Road type is FARS FUNC_SYS for the crash, which can differ from the route’s class where a crash was coded on a frontage road or ramp; speeding is any vehicle coded SPEEDREL 2 to 5; drinking is any driver coded DRINKING = 1 (police-reported, not a blood-alcohol test).

How this is counted

  • The road is the designation FARS wrote. Each crash in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System names the trafficway it was on (TWAY_ID) and, at an intersection, a second one (TWAY_ID2). NHTSA standardises the route designation (I-45, US-59, SR-6) and the police often add a local name after it (I-45/NORTH FWY) or a ramp or frontage word. The page counts every crash whose designation is SR-8, once, whatever followed it. Nothing else is matched: a crash coded only to a local street name is not here even if that street is this road.
  • Same number, another state, another road. SR-8 in Georgia is counted within Georgia only. Where the route continues into a neighbouring state it has its own page there, and a State Route number means nothing outside its state.
  • Only roads with ten or more fatal crashes over 2020 to 2024 have a page. Fewer is too few to say anything, and the county page already lists the most-named roads in each county as the police wrote them.
  • No rate, no rank. The Georgia page lists every numbered road in route order with its count and nothing else. Roads with more lanes, more miles or more traffic record more fatal crashes; the record cannot separate those from the road’s design.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Data snapshot built 2026-10-30.

Other roads in Georgia

In route order, first thirty; the full list is on the Georgia page.