Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in New York
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in New York, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there and the miles driven there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.
New York2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
5.2fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 1,036 fatal crashes in New York, where 20,001,419 people lived. That is 5.2 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 1,101 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 5.3. Per mile driven, New York had 0.9 fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle-miles in 2024.
The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is New York; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 1,036 fatal crashes ÷ 20,001,419 residents × 100,000 = 5.2
- Five-year
- 5,238 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 99,458,594 resident-years × 100,000 = 5.3
- Per 100M miles
- 1,036 fatal crashes ÷ 120,869 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 0.9
- Same year
- United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7
Every year, 2020 to 2024
| Year | Fatal crashes | Deaths | Population | Per 100,000 | Vehicle-miles (millions) | Per 100M miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 958 | 1,045 | 20,122,262 | 4.8 | 102,477 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 1,098 | 1,156 | 19,835,345 | 5.5 | 106,870 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,111 | 1,182 | 19,713,025 | 5.6 | 115,382 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,035 | 1,117 | 19,786,543 | 5.2 | 120,067 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 1,036 | 1,101 | 20,001,419 | 5.2 | 120,869 | 0.9 |
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 5,238 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to New York over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 431 | 8% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 439 | 8% |
| Other principal arterial | 1,520 | 29% |
| Minor arterial | 1,156 | 22% |
| Major collector | 585 | 11% |
| Minor collector | 177 | 3% |
| Local road | 921 | 18% |
| Unknown or not reported | 9 | 0% |
| Rural | 1,279 | 24% |
| Urban | 3,950 | 75% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 1,051 | 20% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 964 | 18% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 1,483 | 28% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,738 | 33% |
| Hour unknown | 2 | 0% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 2,488 | 47% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 898 | 17% |
| Dark, lighted | 1,595 | 30% |
| Dawn or dusk | 252 | 5% |
| Unknown or not reported | 5 | 0% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 3,350 | 64% |
| Cloudy | 1,254 | 24% |
| Rain | 466 | 9% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 86 | 2% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 37 | 1% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 2 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 43 | 1% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 1,405 | 27% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 231 | 4% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 1,741 | 33% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 595 | 11% |
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.
Counties in New York
Alphabetical, with each county’s 2024 fatal crashes and rate per 100,000. The site does not rank them: a small county’s rate swings on one crash.
- Albany County 16 · 5.0
- Allegany County 6 · 12.8
- Bronx County 47 · 3.3
- Broome County 9 · 4.6
- Cattaraugus County 7 · 9.3
- Cayuga County 8 · 10.7
- Chautauqua County 12 · 9.6
- Chemung County 7 · 8.7
- Chenango County 7 · 15.3
- Clinton County 5 · 6.4
- Columbia County 5 · 8.3
- Cortland County 4 · 8.7
- Delaware County 11 · 24.7
- Dutchess County 35 · 11.7
- Erie County 54 · 5.7
- Essex County 6 · 16.4
- Franklin County 3 · 6.4
- Fulton County 8 · 15.3
- Genesee County 3 · 5.1
- Greene County 7 · 14.8
- Hamilton County 1 · 19.7
- Herkimer County 9 · 15.2
- Jefferson County 8 · 7.1
- Kings County 64 · 2.4
- Lewis County 3 · 11.3
- Livingston County 6 · 9.8
- Madison County 10 · 14.9
- Monroe County 45 · 6.0
- Montgomery County 1 · 2.0
- Nassau County 63 · 4.5
- New York County 35 · 2.1
- Niagara County 15 · 7.2
- Oneida County 16 · 7.0
- Onondaga County 33 · 7.0
- Ontario County 10 · 8.9
- Orange County 38 · 9.2
- Orleans County 3 · 7.5
- Oswego County 11 · 9.3
- Otsego County 7 · 11.5
- Putnam County 9 · 9.1
- Queens County 67 · 2.8
- Rensselaer County 12 · 7.5
- Richmond County 13 · 2.6
- Rockland County 17 · 4.8
- Saratoga County 14 · 5.8
- Schenectady County 14 · 8.7
- Schoharie County 2 · 6.6
- Schuyler County 2 · 11.7
- Seneca County 3 · 9.2
- St. Lawrence County 13 · 12.2
- Steuben County 4 · 4.4
- Suffolk County 110 · 7.1
- Sullivan County 16 · 19.8
- Tioga County 8 · 16.8
- Tompkins County 4 · 3.8
- Ulster County 21 · 11.5
- Warren County 8 · 12.3
- Washington County 7 · 11.7
- Wayne County 9 · 9.9
- Westchester County 39 · 3.9
- Wyoming County 1 · 2.5
- Yates County 5 · 20.5
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.
- Vehicle-miles are FHWA Highway Statistics table VM-2, total annual travel by state. Rate per 100 million vehicle-miles = crashes ÷ miles × 100,000,000, the form the federal safety rule uses (23 CFR 490.207). FHWA publishes no county vehicle-miles, so county pages have no per-mile rate.
- 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.