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Fatal crashes on US-287 in Texas

Every fatal crash NHTSA coded to US Route 287, also written as Martin Luther King Fwy, Martin L King Fwy, Business, in Texas, 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.

US-287 in Texas2020 to 2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

199fatal crashes over five years · 242 deaths

Over 2020 to 2024, NHTSA recorded 199 fatal crashes on US-287 in Texas, in which 242 people died. That is 1% of the 19,209 fatal crashes recorded in Texas in those years, about 40 a year. 4 of the 199 were coded to a ramp, frontage or service road of US-287 rather than the main lanes. In 2024, the latest year, 37 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 Texas whose TWAY_ID or TWAY_ID2 begins US-287, with or without a local name (Martin Luther King Fwy, Martin L King Fwy, Business)
Share: 199 ÷ 19,209 fatal crashes in Texas = 1%

Every year, 2020 to 2024

Year	Fatal crashes on US-287	Deaths	Fatal crashes in Texas	Share
2020	32	35	3,522	1%
2021	41	46	4,070	1%
2022	36	55	3,966	1%
2023	53	65	3,877	1%
2024	37	41	3,774	1%

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

Where on US-287: 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 199 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to US-287 in Texas over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road type	Crashes	Share
Interstate	0	0%
Other freeway or expressway	54	27%
Other principal arterial	107	54%
Minor arterial	31	16%
Major collector	7	4%
Minor collector	0	0%
Local road	0	0%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%
Rural	98	49%
Urban	101	51%

Time of day	Crashes	Share
Midnight to 5:59 am	59	30%
6 am to 11:59 am	41	21%
Noon to 5:59 pm	47	24%
6 pm to 11:59 pm	52	26%
Hour unknown	0	0%

Light	Crashes	Share
Daylight	86	43%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)	82	41%
Dark, lighted	24	12%
Dawn or dusk	6	3%
Unknown or not reported	1	1%

Day of week	Crashes	Share
Sunday	37	19%
Monday	31	16%
Tuesday	18	9%
Wednesday	23	12%
Thursday	28	14%
Friday	27	14%
Saturday	35	18%

Month	Crashes	Share
January	20	10%
February	17	9%
March	15	8%
April	13	7%
May	15	8%
June	20	10%
July	13	7%
August	15	8%
September	21	11%
October	13	7%
November	15	8%
December	22	11%

Weather	Crashes	Share
Clear	155	78%
Cloudy	27	14%
Rain	10	5%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	2	1%
Fog, smog or smoke	2	1%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other	3	2%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Involving	Crashes	Share
A pedestrian	32	16%
A bicyclist or other cyclist	0	0%
A speeding-related vehicle	62	31%
A driver police reported as drinking	37	19%
A large truck (over 10,000 lb)	60	30%
A motorcycle	19	10%
A hit-and-run vehicle	6	3%
A teen driver (15 to 19)	17	9%

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 US-287, 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. US-287 in Texas is counted within Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas

I-2 38
I-10 631
I-14 39
I-20 474
I-27 44
I-30 274
I-35 670
I-35E 76
I-35W 38
I-37 79
I-40 68
I-45 485
I-69 188
I-69E 10
I-410 113
I-610 89
I-635 99
I-820 76
SR-1 25
SR-3 20
SR-5 10
SR-6 150
SR-7 36
SR-8 89
SR-11 17
SR-12 131
SR-13 24
SR-16 90
SR-18 11
SR-19 56

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