Effingham County, Georgia: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 13 deaths in 13 fatal crashes in Effingham County in 2024.

FARS records 88 deaths in 84 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.6 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, Effingham County was number 46 of 159 counties of Georgia.

Deaths in Effingham County fell by 4.3% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (92) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (88).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 81.0% of the fatal crashes in Effingham County with a known setting were rural, against 36.0% 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 Effingham 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.Effingham County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	13	13	5
2023	8	8	1 or 2
2022	14	13	3
2021	4	4	1 or 2
2020	10	9	0
2019	8	7	1 or 2
2018	8	7	3
2017	6	6	3
2016	12	12	1 or 2
2015	5	5	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	88	84	21

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 16 (2014)2024: 13

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

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

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.Effingham County beside Georgia and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Effingham County	Georgia	United States
2024	17.7	12.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.6	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. Effingham County had 73,351 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Effingham County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Georgia
A driver recorded as drinkingof 84 fatal crashes	21	84 fatal crashes	25.0%	19.6%
A speeding-related driverof 84 fatal crashes	20	84 fatal crashes	23.8%	19.4%
No restraint usedof 69 occupant deaths with restraint use known	27	69 occupant deathswith restraint use known	39.1%	49.9%
Pedestriansof 88 deaths	6	88 deaths	6.8%	17.1%
Bicyclistsof 88 deaths	1 or 2	88 deaths	1.1%	1.5%
Motorcyclistsof 88 deaths	10	88 deaths	11.4%	11.2%
On a rural roadof 84 fatal crashes with the condition reported	68	84 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	81.0%	36.0%
In the darkof 84 fatal crashes with the condition reported	23	84 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	27.4%	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.Effingham 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	3	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	10
Monday	1 or 2	6	6	1 or 2	15
Tuesday	0	6	5	1 or 2	13
Wednesday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	10
Thursday	0	4	5	5	14
Friday	0	1 or 2	3	3	8
Saturday	1 or 2	3	4	6	14
All days	9	25	27	23	84

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.Effingham County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Georgia
Interstate	5	6.0%	13.3%
Other freeways and expressways	1 or 2	1.2%	2.2%
Other principal arterial	12	14.3%	25.9%
Minor arterial	22	26.2%	27.3%
Major collector	20	23.8%	13.3%
Minor collector	9	10.7%	4.8%
Local	15	17.9%	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.Effingham County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	57
Dark, not lighted	19
Dark, lighted	4
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Effingham County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	59
Cloudy	18
Rain	6
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	0

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Effingham County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Effingham	In all of Georgia
Interstate 16	Interstate	5	123
Interstate 95	Interstate	1 or 2	124
State Route 17	State highway	8	81
State Route 21	State highway	17	35
State Route 26	State highway	6	51
State Route 30	State highway	3	27
State Route 119	State highway	8	32
US Route 80	US highway	1 or 2	51

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.Effingham 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
Effingham County: 13.6

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 Effingham County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Bryan County	Georgia	8	71	16.6
Bulloch County	Georgia	10	153	19.3
Chatham County	Georgia	29	376	12.7
Screven County	Georgia	0	41	29.1
Hampton County	South Carolina	5	64	33.8
Jasper County	South Carolina	17	178	58.2

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 Effingham 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. Effingham County, Georgia: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ga/effingham/. 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 Effingham in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 92 deaths in Effingham County from 2005 to 2014. It records 88 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Effingham in 2024?

The rate of Effingham County in 2024 was 17.7 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 Effingham had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 21 of 84 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 Effingham?

8 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 50 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.