Austin crash data

58 people have died on Austin streets this year

58 people have died in Austin traffic crashes in 2026, according to Austin Police Department crash reports filed to TxDOT's CRIS system, as of October 16, 2026.

That is 2026 to date, based on reports filed so far. 209 more people were seriously injured. Figures can still rise as investigations conclude — see “Revised after the fact” below.

21Pedestrian19Driver or passenger14Motorcyclist2Cyclist2Micromobility (scooter, e-bike)

How to read this page

What this page covers: Austin police crash reports, via TxDOT CRIS. Every table, trend and ranking below is built only from what falls inside that window.

Every crash comes from Austin Police Department reports, published through TxDOT’s CRIS system as City of Austin dataset y2wy-tgr5. Roughly 99% of them carry the coordinates TxDOT recorded with the report, and 93% also carry a CRIS location id grouping crashes at the same intersection or road segment — which is what the map and the location ranking are built on. The few crashes without a CRIS position fall back to a geocoded block centre and are labelled as approximate wherever they appear.

“Dangerous” locations and corridors are ranked by a severity score, not by raw crash count: a death counts ten times as much as an ordinary reported crash, and a serious injury counts three times as much. Austin does not publish traffic-volume figures alongside this dataset, so this cannot be and is not a crash rate — it shows where the worst outcomes have happened in absolute terms, not how likely a crash is at any one spot. A full methodology note sits next to the rankings below.

Deaths by mode of travel, by year

Who was killed, not just how many. A driver, a pedestrian and a cyclist are not interchangeable when it comes to what would have prevented the crash, so the City records them separately and so do we.

58 people were killed on Austin streets in 2026, 21 of them people walking — 36% of the year's road deaths — compared with 75 total deaths in 2017, per TxDOT CRIS data.

Stacked, so each column’s height is that year’s total road deaths and the segments say who died. The y axis starts at zero. Every value here is also in the table below. Source: Austin Police Department via TxDOT CRIS, dataset y2wy-tgr5.

Deaths by mode of travel for each of the last 10 years in the data, plus the all-time total on record. Source: City of Austin, dataset y2wy-tgr5.
Mode	2026	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	All-time
Pedestrian	21	30	39	38	47	41	33	34	30	22	486
Cyclist	2	5	3	6	1	3	4	4	1	4	45
Motorcyclist	14	16	13	10	20	14	6	12	9	11	211
Driver or passenger	19	45	42	36	47	54	48	37	31	38	643
Micromobility (scooter, e-bike)	2	3	—	—	2	2	1	1	—	—	11
Other	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0

Year over year

Every year in the City’s published crash data. The most recent year is usually incomplete — it only contains crashes reported so far.

Austin recorded 7,791 reported crashes and 58 traffic deaths in 2026, compared with 12,347 crashes and 50 deaths in 2010, per TxDOT CRIS data. 2026 is still in progress and is drawn with a dashed line.

Reported crashes on the left axis, deaths and serious-injury crashes on the right — the two run three orders of magnitude apart and one shared axis would flatten the death line onto the floor. Both axes start at zero. Source: Austin Police Department via TxDOT CRIS, dataset y2wy-tgr5.

Reported crashes, deaths and serious injuries by year. Source: City of Austin, dataset y2wy-tgr5.
Year	Crashes	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Serious-injury crashes
2026	7,791	59	58	181
2025	12,021	98	99	285
2024	12,086	92	97	375
2023	13,038	93	90	414
2022	13,658	114	117	470
2021	13,201	107	114	461
2020	12,505	88	92	377
2019	16,939	90	88	494
2018	16,558	73	71	466
2017	16,361	73	75	457
2016	16,891	83	78	482
2015	15,232	98	101	432
2014	14,372	56	60	416
2013	14,506	72	75	486
2012	14,375	73	76	469
2011	12,550	49	55	410
2010	12,347	48	50	368

Where crashes have been worst

Ranked by outcome, not traffic. Each location gets a severity score of (deaths × 10) + (serious injuries × 3), so the list is sorted by how badly crashes there have gone, not by how many happened. A location here is a TxDOT CRIS location cluster — the intersection or road segment the state assigns the crash to — not a block address: block addresses in this data are ambiguous enough that “300 Congress Ave” alone covers five separate places a kilometre apart. This dataset does not record traffic volume, so this is not a crash rate and cannot say how likely a crash is at any one spot — only where the worst reported outcomes have clustered. This site's coverage window is Austin police crash reports, via TxDOT CRIS.

Austin's worst recorded crash location is 3900 S CONGRESS AVE, with 4 deaths and 14 serious-injury crashes among 310 reported crashes, per TxDOT CRIS data as of October 16, 2026. 200 locations are plotted below.

The 200 highest-severity locations in Austin, each one a TxDOT CRIS location cluster — an intersection or road segment — drawn at the median position of the crashes recorded there. 200 of them use coordinates TxDOT recorded with the crash report itself; the rest fall back to a geocoded block centre and are drawn hollow. The table below lists the top 25 of the same ranking. Source: Austin Police Department via TxDOT CRIS, dataset y2wy-tgr5.

Intersections and road segments, by severity score

The 25 highest-severity-score locations with at least one fatal or serious-injury crash on record, of 200 plotted on the map above. Grouped by TxDOT CRIS location cluster. Source: Austin Police Department via TxDOT CRIS, dataset y2wy-tgr5.
Location	Deaths	Serious-injury crashes	Total crashes	Years	Severity score
3900 S CONGRESS AVE100 BEN WHITE BLVD	4	14	310	2010–2026	85
5600 N IH 355600 N IH 35 SB HWY	7	4	114	2010–2026	82
5300 N IH 355300 N IH 35 SB HWY	6	7	193	2010–2026	81
E ANDERSON LN & CAMERON RD7700 CAMERON LN	3	12	305	2010–2026	81
N LOOP 1 SVRD & N LOOP 36010000 MOPAC EXPY	7	2	123	2010–2026	79
W WILLIAM CANNON DR & S 1ST ST700 WILLIAM CANNON DR	1	17	217	2010–2026	79
8200 N IH 358200 N IH 35 NB HWY	6	5	116	2010–2026	78
9400 US 1839400 RESEARCH BLVD SB BLVD	5	5	113	2010–2026	71
2200 N IH 352200 IH 35 HWY	2	14	459	2010–2026	71
E PARMER LN & DESSAU RD1700 PARMER LN	1	14	371	2010–2026	70
AIRPORT BLVD & OAK SPRINGS DR1100 AIRPORT BLVD	3	11	226	2010–2026	69
4000 N IH 354000 IH 35 HWY	3	10	215	2010–2026	69
3500 N IH 353500 IH 35 SB HWY	3	11	244	2010–2026	66
7200 N IH 357200 IH 35 HWY	4	7	296	2010–2026	64
900 US 183900 BASTROP HWY	4	7	100	2010–2026	64
W PARMER LN & N LAMAR BLVD1100 PARMER LN	1	16	389	2010–2026	64
S US 183 & BURLESON RD4800 BURLESON HWY	3	9	240	2010–2026	63
W SLAUGHTER LN & S 1ST ST600 SLAUGHTER LN	1	17	284	2010–2026	61
5700 S IH 355700 IH 35 HWY	2	9	341	2010–2026	59
E PARMER LN & HARRIS BRANCH PKWY12300 PARMER LN	3	8	106	2010–2026	57
E US 183 SVRD & E US 290 SVRD2500 E US 290 HWY SVRD WB LN	2	9	204	2010–2026	56
50 N IH 3550 IH 35 HWY	4	5	205	2010–2026	55
N LAMAR BLVD & W RUNDBERG LN9400 LAMAR BLVD	1	12	345	2010–2026	55
7800 N IH 35 SVRD7800 ANDERSON LN	3	7	428	2010–2026	54
E STATE HIGHWAY 71 SVRD & S IH 35 SVRD4000 S IH 35 SVRD NB HWY	3	7	146	2010–2026	54

Corridors, by the same method

The same severity score, summed across an entire named street instead of one block — which streets carry the worst outcomes, not which 100 metres of them.

The 20 highest-severity-score named streets with at least one fatal or serious-injury crash on record. Source: City of Austin, dataset y2wy-tgr5.
Street	Deaths	Serious-injury crashes	Total crashes	Severity score
LAMAR	38	221	6,486	1,112
IH 35	30	112	4,707	675
CONGRESS	23	133	2,894	659
PARMER	15	107	3,009	555
MOPAC	22	85	4,333	514
IH 35 NB	27	62	2,148	483
RIVERSIDE	17	79	2,274	437
WILLIAM CANNON	15	77	2,118	435
BEN WHITE	21	64	1,882	411
SLAUGHTER	16	61	2,181	370
MANCHACA	13	68	1,475	361
AIRPORT	10	72	2,077	337
IH 35 SB	15	50	2,371	333
BURNET	9	74	2,159	321
1ST	8	70	1,799	314
CAMERON	9	59	1,192	291
DESSAU	10	45	1,118	274
CESAR CHAVEZ	9	56	1,367	270
PLEASANT VALLEY	7	54	1,110	262
IH 35 SVRD NB	14	37	1,173	260

How crashes happen

The most common collision patterns on record, by how often each one is reported.

Single vehicle, going straight49,953 · 868 deaths
Rear-ended a stopped vehicle36,054 · 53 deaths
Same Direction - Both Going Straight-rear End34,963 · 75 deaths
Angle / T-bone31,214 · 101 deaths
Left turn across traffic22,309 · 70 deaths
Same Direction - Both Going Straight-sideswipe16,996 · 35 deaths

Crashes in active construction zones

Every crash the report itself flags as occurring in an active road-construction zone, which is likely an undercount — it depends on the responding officer noting it, not on a separate check against city permits.

780 crashes in 2026 were reported as happening inside an active Austin road-work zone, 10.0% of all crashes reported that year, and 5 people were killed in them, compared with 177 in 2010.

Bars are counts on the left axis; the line is that year’s work-zone crashes as a share of all Austin crashes, on the right. Both are shown because the count alone rises with the city’s traffic whether or not work zones got more dangerous. Axes start at zero. Source: Austin Police Department via TxDOT CRIS, dataset y2wy-tgr5.

Construction-zone crashes by year, and their share of that year’s total reported crashes. Source: City of Austin, dataset y2wy-tgr5.
Year	Crashes	Deaths	Serious-injury crashes	Share of that year’s crashes
2026	780	5	11	10.0%
2025	1,528	14	28	12.7%
2024	1,242	12	38	10.3%
2023	722	5	17	5.5%
2022	369	5	12	2.7%
2021	586	9	16	4.4%
2020	987	13	34	7.9%
2019	1,176	6	27	6.9%
2018	1,077	8	31	6.5%
2017	1,050	2	23	6.4%
2016	898	3	22	5.3%
2015	546	4	20	3.6%
2014	280	3	3	1.9%
2013	324	1	10	2.2%
2012	470	4	15	3.3%
2011	322	0	14	2.6%
2010	177	1	4	1.4%

Revised after the fact

The City’s own crash data only ever shows the current version of a report. This site checks every crash daily and keeps a record of what changed, so it can show something the source API cannot: crashes whose recorded severity got worse after the initial report — a possible injury reclassified as a serious one, or a serious injury that became a death.

The most recent 10 crashes whose injury-severity fields changed after this site first recorded them.
Location	What changed	Revised on
N IH 35 SBCrash on Sep 3, 2026	severity code: 5 → 0	Oct 16, 2026
6800 NOT REPORTEDCrash on Jul 20, 2026	severity code: 0 → 3 possible injury count: 0 → 3	Oct 16, 2026
4400 PERSEVERANCE DR DRCrash on Feb 13, 2026	severity code: 3 → 2 minor injury count: 0 → 1 possible injury count: 1 → 0	Oct 14, 2026
12336 N IH 35 SBCrash on Sep 12, 2026	severity code: 5 → 0	Oct 9, 2026
4600 MOPAC NB EXPYCrash on Aug 26, 2026	death count: 1 → 0	Oct 8, 2026
RUTLAND DRCrash on Sep 6, 2026	is fatal: true → false severity code: 4 → 1 death count: 1 → 0 serious injury count: 1 → 2	Oct 7, 2026
5400 ROSS RD RDCrash on May 3, 2025	death count: 1 → 0	Oct 7, 2026
2800 S MOPAC EXPY SBCrash on Jul 31, 2026	severity code: 5 → 0	Sep 12, 2026
1700 CAPITAL OF TEXAS HWYCrash on May 29, 2026	severity code: 2 → 1 serious injury count: 0 → 1 minor injury count: 3 → 2	Aug 26, 2026
1700 RIVERSIDE DRCrash on Dec 21, 2025	minor injury count: 4 → 3	Aug 26, 2026

Source: City of Austin Open Data — Crash Report Data, Austin Police Department. Deleted and not-yet-finalized reports are excluded from every figure on this page.

Last synced October 16, 2026 at 8:17 AM.

Questions people ask

How many people have died in Austin traffic crashes this year?

58 people have died in Austin traffic crashes in 2026, according to Austin Police Department crash reports filed to TxDOT's CRIS system, as of October 16, 2026. 21 of them were people walking. The figure can still rise: Austin Police amend a crash record as an investigation concludes, so a death recorded weeks from now will be counted in 2026 even though it is not in this total today.

Which intersections in Austin have the most dangerous crash record?

By this page's severity score, 3900 S CONGRESS AVE has Austin's worst recorded crash outcomes: 4 deaths and 14 serious-injury crashes across 310 reported crashes between 2010 and 2026, per TxDOT CRIS data as of October 16, 2026. The map on this page plots the 200 highest-ranked locations; the tables below it list the top 25 of those, plus the 20 highest-ranked corridors. That is a slice of the ranking, not every location in the dataset.

What makes a location "dangerous" on this page?

Locations and corridors are ranked by a severity score that weights each death ten times and each serious injury three times more than an ordinary reported crash — not by how many crashes happened there. A quiet street with one fatal crash can outrank a busy road with dozens of minor ones. This dataset has no traffic-volume figures, so the ranking describes where the worst outcomes have clustered in absolute terms, not the odds of a crash at any one location.

Where do the crash map’s coordinates come from?

From TxDOT’s CRIS crash records themselves: about 99% of Austin crashes in this dataset carry a latitude and longitude recorded with the report, and about 93% also carry a CRIS location id that groups crashes at the same intersection or road segment. Each point on the map is one of those clusters, placed at the median position of the crashes in it. Earlier versions of this page geocoded the block address instead, which merged places that are up to a kilometre apart — "300 Congress Ave" alone covers five separate CRIS clusters stretching from the Capitol to south of the river. The handful of clusters that still have no CRIS coordinate are drawn as hollow, dashed circles and say so when you open them.

Can a crash’s recorded severity change after it is first reported?

Yes, and often does. A crash is filed with the injury information known on scene, and the Austin Police Department revises that record as an investigation concludes — a possible injury can become a serious injury, or a death. The City’s public data only ever shows the current version; this site tracks every revision it observes and publishes the ones affecting injury severity on this page.

Where does this crash data come from and how current is it?

Every figure on this page comes from Austin Police Department crash reports, published through TxDOT's CRIS system as City of Austin open dataset y2wy-tgr5. This site last synced it on October 16, 2026. That copy holds 58 recorded traffic deaths for 2026. Deleted and not-yet-finalized reports are excluded from every figure and list on this page.