Austin crash data
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 the City of Austin’s official crash report data, filed by responding officers. This dataset has no exact coordinates for a crash — only a block-level address (a block number, street name and suffix, e.g. “1200 S Lamar Blvd”) — so nothing on this page, including the map further down, claims better than block-level accuracy.
“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.
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. 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.
No locations have been geocoded yet. The sync script resolves severe-crash locations in bounded daily batches — see scripts/sync-crashes.ts.
Blocks, by severity score
| Location (block-level) | Deaths | Serious-injury crashes | Total crashes | Severity score |
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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.
| Street | Deaths | Serious-injury crashes | Total crashes | Severity score |
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How crashes happen
The most common collision patterns on record, by how often each one is reported.
No collision-type data available for this window.
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.
No construction-zone crash data available for this window.
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.
No revisions have been observed yet. This table fills in as the sync script (which has not yet run against live data) watches the same crashes across multiple days.
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 August 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM.
Questions people ask
How many people have died in Austin traffic crashes this year?
This page reports Austin traffic deaths by year and by mode of travel, sourced from the City of Austin’s crash report data.
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.
Does the map show exactly where each crash happened?
No. The source data has no coordinates for individual crashes, only a block-level street address. Every point on the map is the approximate centroid of a city block, and only for locations that have had a fatal or serious-injury crash — not a pin at the crash itself, and not every crash location in the dataset.
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 the City of Austin's official crash report data (Socrata dataset y2wy-tgr5), published by the Austin Police Department. This site last synced it on August 4, 2026. Deleted or not-yet-finalized reports are excluded from every figure and list on this page.