Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate in 2025 [Traffic Safety Facts]

This edition of Crash*Stats is a brief statistical summary of projected traffic fatalities and fatality rate for 2024 when an estimated 36,640 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes, a decrease of about 6.7 percent compared to 39,254 fatalities in 2024. The fourth quarter of 2025 represents the 15th consecutive quarterly decline in fatalities beginning with the second quarter of 2022. If realized, the estimated percentage decrease for 2025 would be the fifth largest in the recorded history of the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, bringing total fatalities back to the pre-pandemic levels seen in 2019. In 2025 the fatality rate dropped to 1.10 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, down from 1.19 in 2024, the second lowest fatality rate in recorded history (started in 1975).