Every record, queryable
Search the fatal-crash census
Search by place — type a state or county — or filter every recorded fatal crash by year, collision type, first harmful event, conditions and contributing factors. Queries run live in your browser against the database; click any row for the full decoded record, and share the URL to share the exact view.
Pre-crash scenario, driver BAC band, and the vision, violation and vehicle-defect filters are coded from 2010 onward — the 2010–2014 values are decoded from FARS's own later-year code tables. Driver-related-factor coding begins in 2020. Earlier years carry no value for these fields.
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For machines · crash_stats.json · FARS query DB (gzip) · sources NHTSA FARS + FHWA exposure (VMT, drivers, population)
The NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) is a census of every fatal crash on a US public road, deduplicated and decoded by an autonomous pipeline. The most recent FARS year is an Initial Release (preliminary), refreshed when finalized. Rate baselines normalize the counts by FHWA travel-exposure data: vehicle-miles travelled (1980–2022) and licensed drivers and resident population (1998–2021).