The census, fully explorable
Fatality Explorer
Build any view of every US fatal crash on record. Pick a measure, a breakdown, an optional split, filters and a year range — each chart is computed live in your browser against all 1,872,464 crashes. Flip the Per control to re-base any view as a rate (per 100M vehicle-miles, per 100k drivers, or per capita), and download the chart data or the matching crash records. Share any view by copying its link.
Factor detail — pre-crash scenario, driver BAC band, and the driver-related, vision, traffic-violation and vehicle-defect flags — is FARS-coded from 2010 onward (driver-related factors from 2020); earlier years read as “No” and are excluded from the coded breakdowns.
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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).