Cook County, Georgia: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in Cook County in 2024.

FARS records 69 deaths in 62 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 39.8 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Georgia in the same years is 14.8.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Cook County was number 65 of 159 counties of Georgia.

Deaths in Cook County rose by 53.3% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (45) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (69).

In the counties of Georgia the deaths rose by 14.0% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 72.3% of the occupants killed in Cook County with restraint use known had no restraint, against 49.9% in Georgia.

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 Cook County by year, 2015 to 2024

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.Cook County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	5	5	1 or 2
2023	7	7	1 or 2
2022	14	11	1 or 2
2021	6	6	1 or 2
2020	8	8	1 or 2
2019	6	5	0
2018	4	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	5	4	0
2016	8	8	3
2015	6	6	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	69	62	12

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 18 (1997)2024: 5

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

Table 2.Cook County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	5	5
2023	7	7
2022	14	11
2021	6	6
2020	8	8
2019	6	5
2018	4	1 or 2
2017	5	4
2016	8	8
2015	6	6
2014	5	5
2013	1 or 2	1 or 2
2012	1 or 2	1 or 2
2011	4	4
2010	3	3
2009	1 or 2	1 or 2
2008	5	5
2007	5	5
2006	11	8
2005	7	7
2004	7	6
2003	4	4
2002	10	5
2001	9	6
2000	13	10
1999	3	3
1998	5	5
1997	18	13
1996	5	5
1995	13	7
1994	4	4
1993	7	6
1992	10	9
1991	5	3
1990	11	7
1989	16	10
1988	8	7
1987	4	4
1986	1 or 2	1 or 2
1985	5	5
1984	5	5
1983	4	4
1982	3	1 or 2
1981	12	7
1980	7	6
1979	1 or 2	1 or 2
1978	3	3
1977	5	4
1976	3	3
1975	1 or 2	1 or 2

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.Cook County beside Georgia and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Cook County	Georgia	United States
2024	27.8	12.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	39.8	14.8	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. Cook County had 17,995 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Cook County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Georgia
A driver recorded as drinkingof 62 fatal crashes	12	62 fatal crashes	19.4%	19.6%
A speeding-related driverof 62 fatal crashes	12	62 fatal crashes	19.4%	19.4%
No restraint usedof 47 occupant deaths with restraint use known	34	47 occupant deathswith restraint use known	72.3%	49.9%
Pedestriansof 69 deaths	6	69 deaths	8.7%	17.1%
Bicyclistsof 69 deaths	1 or 2	69 deaths	2.9%	1.5%
Motorcyclistsof 69 deaths	8	69 deaths	11.6%	11.2%
On a rural roadof 62 fatal crashes with the condition reported	32	62 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	51.6%	36.0%
In the darkof 62 fatal crashes with the condition reported	29	62 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	46.8%	49.5%

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.Cook 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	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	9
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	0	4
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	8
Wednesday	3	4	1 or 2	1 or 2	11
Thursday	0	0	1 or 2	3	4
Friday	0	1 or 2	3	3	7
Saturday	7	1 or 2	8	1 or 2	19
All days	15	12	21	14	62

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.Cook County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Georgia
Interstate	24	38.7%	13.3%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	2.2%
Other principal arterial	3	4.8%	25.9%
Minor arterial	13	21.0%	27.3%
Major collector	10	16.1%	13.3%
Minor collector	3	4.8%	4.8%
Local	9	14.5%	13.2%
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.Cook County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	32
Dark, not lighted	28
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Cook County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	49
Cloudy	9
Rain	1 or 2
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Cook County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Cook	In all of Georgia
Interstate 75	Interstate	24	647
State Route 7	State highway	3	29
State Route 37	State highway	5	27
US Route 41	US highway	1 or 2	85

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 Georgia

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Cook County on the county map of Georgia

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

Fewer than 107 counties
10 to 14.924 counties
15 to 19.934 counties
20 to 29.955 counties
30 or more38 counties
Count of 1 or 2, no rate shown1 county
Cook County: 39.8

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 Georgia

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Cook County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Berrien County	Georgia	5	36	19.2
Brooks County	Georgia	1 or 2	41	25.7
Colquitt County	Georgia	12	115	25.1
Lowndes County	Georgia	18	183	15.5
Tift County	Georgia	11	81	19.7

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Georgia have a population nearest to that of Cook 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.
Georgia Governor's Office of Highway SafetyThe highway safety office of Georgia.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Cook County, Georgia: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ga/cook/. 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 Cook in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 45 deaths in Cook County from 2005 to 2014. It records 69 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Cook in 2024?

The rate of Cook County in 2024 was 27.8 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Georgia was 12.5. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 12 of 62 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 Cook?

4 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 33 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.