Clear Creek County, Colorado: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 5 deaths in 4 fatal crashes in Clear Creek County in 2024.

FARS records 32 deaths in 31 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 34.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Colorado in the same years is 11.4.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Clear Creek County was number 34 of 64 counties of Colorado.

Deaths in Clear Creek County fell by 8.6% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (35) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (32).

In the counties of Colorado the deaths rose by 29.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 100.0% of the fatal crashes in Clear Creek County with a known setting were rural, against 39.1% in Colorado.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.
The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.
NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on the FARS 2024 annual file. NHTSA released it on 1 Apr 2026. NHTSA can revise the counts in the final file. Release dates

Figure 1.Deaths in Clear Creek County by year, 2015 to 2024

1 or 2

Table 1 has the numbers. Go to the table

Since the last update: no figure of this county has a change on record.

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

Table 1.Clear Creek County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	5	4	1 or 2
2023	5	5	0
2022	5	5	1 or 2
2021	3	3	1 or 2
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2019	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2016	3	3	1 or 2
2015	4	4	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	32	31	10

Each year from 1975

Figure 2.Deaths in Clear Creek County by year, 1975 to 2024

Tallest column: 17 (1981)2024: 5

The columns with a stronger shade are the years 2015 to 2024.

Table 2.Clear Creek County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	5	4
2023	5	5
2022	5	5
2021	3	3
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2
2019	1 or 2	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	1 or 2	1 or 2
2016	3	3
2015	4	4
2014	0	0
2013	8	8
2012	1 or 2	1 or 2
2011	1 or 2	1 or 2
2010	1 or 2	1 or 2
2009	3	3
2008	3	3
2007	5	5
2006	7	3
2005	3	3
2004	4	4
2003	6	5
2002	5	5
2001	6	6
2000	10	10
1999	8	7
1998	9	7
1997	12	10
1996	3	3
1995	9	9
1994	5	5
1993	1 or 2	1 or 2
1992	6	6
1991	6	5
1990	1 or 2	1 or 2
1989	7	6
1988	3	1 or 2
1987	6	6
1986	4	4
1985	6	6
1984	6	5
1983	9	6
1982	3	3
1981	17	17
1980	6	6
1979	5	5
1978	9	7
1977	8	8
1976	11	9
1975	6	6

Note: a count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2". A death is in FARS when it occurs in 30 days or less after the crash.

Rate for each 100,000 residents

Table 3.Clear Creek County beside Colorado and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Clear Creek County	Colorado	United States
2024	55.4	11.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	34.2	11.4	11.8

Note: the rate divides the deaths in the county by its residents. Persons who do not live in the county are in the deaths, not in the residents.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Clear Creek County had 9,023 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Clear Creek County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Colorado
A driver recorded as drinkingof 31 fatal crashes	10	31 fatal crashes	32.3%	34.1%
A speeding-related driverof 31 fatal crashes	12	31 fatal crashes	38.7%	35.4%
No restraint usedof 21 occupant deaths with restraint use known	11	21 occupant deathswith restraint use known	52.4%	54.5%
Pedestriansof 32 deaths	1 or 2	32 deaths	6.3%	14.1%
Bicyclistsof 32 deaths	0	32 deaths	0.0%	2.5%
Motorcyclistsof 32 deaths	8	32 deaths	25.0%	19.4%
On a rural roadof 31 fatal crashes with the condition reported	31	31 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	100.0%	39.1%
In the darkof 31 fatal crashes with the condition reported	11	31 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	35.5%	45.1%

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure, which uses a blood alcohol concentration of .08 g/dL or higher. One crash can be in two or more rows. NHTSA's definitions

Note that alcohol data is often missing. For that reason, this data element may under-count the actual number of drinking drivers.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

Weekday, time and road class

Table 5.Clear Creek County: fatal crashes by weekday and time of day, 2015 to 2024
Weekday	Midnight to 6 a.m.	6 a.m. to noon	Noon to 6 p.m.	6 p.m. to midnight	All
Sunday	0	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	7
Monday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Tuesday	0	4	0	1 or 2	5
Wednesday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Thursday	0	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	3
Friday	0	0	1 or 2	0	1 or 2
Saturday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	3	6
All days	3	6	12	10	31

Note: a cell with a stronger shade has a larger count. The table has the fatal crashes with a known hour and weekday.

Table 6.Clear Creek County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Colorado
Interstate	15	48.4%	14.9%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	4.6%
Other principal arterial	3	9.7%	39.3%
Minor arterial	3	9.7%	19.3%
Major collector	5	16.1%	10.2%
Minor collector	1 or 2	6.5%	2.8%
Local	3	9.7%	8.9%
Not reported	0	n/a	n/a

Note: the classes are those of the Federal Highway Administration. The shares are of the crashes with a reported class. Road function classes

Light condition and weather

Table 7.Clear Creek County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	18
Dark, not lighted	9
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Clear Creek County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	14
Cloudy	3
Rain	0
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	11

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Clear Creek County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Clear Creek	In all of Colorado
Interstate 70	Interstate	14	313
US Route 6	US highway	3	109
US Route 40	US highway	3	176

Note: the table has each route with a page that has a fatal crash in the county, in name order. Local streets and county roads have no page. Their crashes are in the county totals. All routes in Colorado

Adjacent counties

These lists are for navigation. They are in name order.

Figure 3.Clear Creek County on the county map of Colorado

Deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year, 2015 to 2024

Fewer than 108 counties
10 to 14.99 counties
15 to 19.917 counties
20 to 29.912 counties
30 or more18 counties
Clear Creek County: 34.2

The limits of the classes are the same for every state. A county with few residents can show a high rate from few deaths. A class is not a judgement of a county. The full map and the table of counties of Colorado

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Clear Creek County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Gilpin County	Colorado	0	8	13.4
Grand County	Colorado	1 or 2	31	19.8
Jefferson County	Colorado	54	478	8.3
Park County	Colorado	4	53	29.6
Summit County	Colorado	4	41	13.2

Source of the list: Census Bureau county adjacency file, 2026 edition.

Counties of similar population

These counties of Colorado have a population nearest to that of Clear Creek County. The list is for navigation and is in name order. The number is the deaths from 2015 to 2024.

Official channels

NHTSA Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool (FIRST)NHTSA's query tool for FARS counts.
NHTSA FARS EncyclopediaNHTSA's tables of FARS data.
Colorado Office of Transportation SafetyThe highway safety office of Colorado.

These links go to the sites of the agencies. They were checked on 2 Oct 2026.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Clear Creek County, Colorado: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/co/clear-creek/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to 31 Dec 2024.

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national files of 1975 to 2024. The factors use the vehicle and person files from 2015. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Map: Census Bureau cartographic boundary file, 2021 edition. Data to 31 Dec 2024. The figures are totals. No page of this site is about one crash or one person.

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

How many deaths did FARS record in Clear Creek in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 35 deaths in Clear Creek County from 2005 to 2014. It records 32 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Clear Creek in 2024?

The rate of Clear Creek County in 2024 was 55.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Colorado was 11.5. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

How many fatal crashes in Clear Creek had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 10 of 31 fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024. This count is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA says that alcohol data is often missing, so the count may be too low.

How many fatal crashes did FARS record on signed routes in Clear Creek?

FARS records 14 fatal crashes on Interstate 70 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 3 fatal crashes on US Route 6 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 3 fatal crashes on US Route 40 in the county from 2015 to 2024.