MVRPC Fatal and Serious Injury Crashes 2021–2025

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Fatal and serious-injury crashes in the MVRPC area, 2021–2025

How I counted:

• Area: crash points that fall inside the MVRPC polygon in the MPO data set.
• Severity: each crash report counted once, by its crash severity: Fatal (code 1) or Serious Injury Suspected (code 2). Every document number appears only once per year, so nothing was double-counted.
• Freeway exclusion: functional class 1 or 2.
• Ramp exclusion: ODOT crash location "On Ramp" (7) or "Off Ramp" (8).
• No location: none of the fatal or serious-injury crashes in these five years are missing coordinates, so this exclusion removed nothing. The mapped points also match the recorded latitude and longitude.
• Urban vs. rural: urban means inside any ODOT Adjusted Urbanized Area polygon. Inside MVRPC those are Dayton and Middletown, plus the smaller areas of Troy, Xenia, Piqua, Brookville, Germantown and New Carlisle.

Table 1: Counted crashes (freeways and ramps excluded)

About 85% of the counted crashes are urban. The yearly total stays between 438 and 467, with no clear trend. Urban serious injuries reached their highest level in 2025 (347).

Table 2: Fatal and serious-injury crashes removed by the freeway and ramp exclusions

• "Freeway" here means functional class 1 or 2 and not coded as a ramp. "Ramp" means any on-ramp or off-ramp crash; most of these also carry freeway functional class.
• Only 3 of the 18 ramp crashes were on roads that aren't class 1 or 2.
• Check: counted plus removed equals every fatal and serious-injury crash in the area (2,274 + 356 = 2,630).

MVRPC Fatal and Serious Injury Crashes 2021–2025⬇ Image

Map legend

• Red dots: counted fatal crashes.
• Orange dots: counted serious-injury crashes.
• Gray dots: fatal and serious-injury crashes removed by the freeway and ramp exclusions.
• Dark blue outline: MVRPC boundary.
• Light purple polygons: ODOT Adjusted Urbanized Areas that fall within MVRPC.

Things to know

• Crashes with no functional class are counted. 34 crashes in the area have no functional class and no route ID. I kept them unless they were coded as ramps (one was). When I checked the nearest classified road, almost all sit on local roads, collectors or arterials. One (2023 report 20236098837) is about 60 m from I-70 and one (2022 report 20228117447) is about 100 m from a freeway ramp. If you treat those two as freeway crashes, each year's serious-injury count drops by at most one.
• Small urban areas count as urban. I included all the Adjusted Urbanized Area polygons, including the small ones like Troy and Xenia. If only the large urbanized areas (Dayton and Middletown) should count as urban, the crashes around those smaller towns would move to the rural columns.
• These numbers may not match MVRPC's plan exactly. They come from the current ODOT crash extracts, which are updated weekly; 2025 in particular may still be incomplete. The MVRPC plan may also have used a different crash snapshot or edge rules, such as how it handles the northern Warren County line.