Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Pennsylvania
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Pennsylvania, 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.
Pennsylvania2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
8.1fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 1,060 fatal crashes in Pennsylvania, where 13,045,848 people lived. That is 8.1 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 1,127 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 8.5. Per mile driven, Pennsylvania had 1.1 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 Pennsylvania; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 1,060 fatal crashes ÷ 13,045,848 residents × 100,000 = 8.1
- Five-year
- 5,498 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 65,052,113 resident-years × 100,000 = 8.5
- Per 100M miles
- 1,060 fatal crashes ÷ 95,194 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 1.1
- 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 | 1,060 | 1,129 | 12,995,576 | 8.2 | 87,982 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,153 | 1,230 | 13,016,628 | 8.9 | 102,686 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,092 | 1,179 | 12,984,655 | 8.4 | 99,912 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,133 | 1,211 | 13,009,406 | 8.7 | 100,126 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,060 | 1,127 | 13,045,848 | 8.1 | 95,194 | 1.1 |
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 5,498 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Pennsylvania over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 549 | 10% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 201 | 4% |
| Other principal arterial | 1,568 | 29% |
| Minor arterial | 1,220 | 22% |
| Major collector | 750 | 14% |
| Minor collector | 195 | 4% |
| Local road | 995 | 18% |
| Unknown or not reported | 20 | 0% |
| Rural | 2,238 | 41% |
| Urban | 3,241 | 59% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 961 | 17% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 1,067 | 19% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 1,754 | 32% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,710 | 31% |
| Hour unknown | 6 | 0% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 2,845 | 52% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,289 | 23% |
| Dark, lighted | 1,088 | 20% |
| Dawn or dusk | 257 | 5% |
| Unknown or not reported | 19 | 0% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 3,704 | 67% |
| Cloudy | 276 | 5% |
| Rain | 463 | 8% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 135 | 2% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 48 | 1% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 16 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 856 | 16% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 847 | 15% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 107 | 2% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 2,167 | 39% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 964 | 18% |
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 Pennsylvania
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.
- Adams County 13 · 12.1
- Allegheny County 74 · 6.0
- Armstrong County 8 · 12.5
- Beaver County 4 · 2.4
- Bedford County 8 · 16.8
- Berks County 47 · 10.7
- Blair County 10 · 8.3
- Bradford County 13 · 21.8
- Bucks County 41 · 6.3
- Butler County 15 · 7.5
- Cambria County 12 · 9.2
- Cameron County 1 · 23.1
- Carbon County 11 · 16.7
- Centre County 6 · 3.8
- Chester County 24 · 4.3
- Clarion County 7 · 19.1
- Clearfield County 12 · 15.4
- Clinton County 5 · 13.2
- Columbia County 6 · 9.1
- Crawford County 11 · 13.4
- Cumberland County 16 · 5.8
- Dauphin County 26 · 8.9
- Delaware County 27 · 4.6
- Elk County 0 · 0.0
- Erie County 33 · 12.4
- Fayette County 15 · 12.1
- Forest County 1 · 15.2
- Franklin County 20 · 12.5
- Fulton County 2 · 13.8
- Greene County 4 · 11.7
- Huntingdon County 3 · 6.9
- Indiana County 7 · 8.4
- Jefferson County 3 · 6.9
- Juniata County 2 · 8.5
- Lackawanna County 16 · 7.4
- Lancaster County 49 · 8.7
- Lawrence County 4 · 4.8
- Lebanon County 19 · 13.1
- Lehigh County 30 · 7.8
- Luzerne County 18 · 5.4
- Lycoming County 14 · 12.4
- McKean County 2 · 5.1
- Mercer County 14 · 12.9
- Mifflin County 1 · 2.2
- Monroe County 18 · 10.8
- Montgomery County 45 · 5.1
- Montour County 5 · 27.9
- Northampton County 15 · 4.6
- Northumberland County 7 · 7.8
- Perry County 6 · 12.9
- Philadelphia County 133 · 8.5
- Pike County 9 · 14.5
- Potter County 2 · 12.5
- Schuylkill County 21 · 14.5
- Snyder County 6 · 15.1
- Somerset County 9 · 12.5
- Sullivan County 1 · 17.0
- Susquehanna County 11 · 28.8
- Tioga County 3 · 7.4
- Union County 3 · 7.0
- Venango County 4 · 8.1
- Warren County 5 · 13.4
- Washington County 27 · 12.8
- Wayne County 8 · 15.6
- Westmoreland County 27 · 7.7
- Wyoming County 4 · 15.5
- York County 37 · 7.9
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.