Grady County, Georgia: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 8 deaths in 8 fatal crashes in Grady County in 2024.

FARS records 60 deaths in 58 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 23.5 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, Grady County was number 75 of 159 counties of Georgia.

Deaths in Grady County rose by 22.4% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (49) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (60).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 65.5% of the fatal crashes in Grady 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 Grady County by year, 2015 to 2024

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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.Grady County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	8	8	0
2023	4	4	0
2022	5	5	0
2021	6	5	0
2020	9	9	1 or 2
2019	5	5	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2017	7	7	1 or 2
2016	5	5	1 or 2
2015	9	8	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	60	58	8

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 15 (1988)2024: 8

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

Table 2.Grady County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	8	8
2023	4	4
2022	5	5
2021	6	5
2020	9	9
2019	5	5
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	7	7
2016	5	5
2015	9	8
2014	4	4
2013	3	3
2012	3	3
2011	4	4
2010	3	3
2009	3	3
2008	4	4
2007	11	11
2006	7	6
2005	7	7
2004	5	5
2003	5	4
2002	9	8
2001	10	6
2000	1 or 2	1 or 2
1999	13	9
1998	3	3
1997	8	7
1996	12	9
1995	4	4
1994	4	4
1993	4	4
1992	10	8
1991	11	10
1990	5	5
1989	8	7
1988	15	13
1987	5	5
1986	10	8
1985	7	6
1984	3	3
1983	7	6
1982	5	5
1981	5	5
1980	12	11
1979	13	10
1978	12	9
1977	6	4
1976	12	10
1975	9	9

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.Grady County beside Georgia and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Grady County	Georgia	United States
2024	30.2	12.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	23.5	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. Grady County had 26,488 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Grady County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Georgia
A driver recorded as drinkingof 58 fatal crashes	8	58 fatal crashes	13.8%	19.6%
A speeding-related driverof 58 fatal crashes	13	58 fatal crashes	22.4%	19.4%
No restraint usedof 40 occupant deaths with restraint use known	25	40 occupant deathswith restraint use known	62.5%	49.9%
Pedestriansof 60 deaths	10	60 deaths	16.7%	17.1%
Bicyclistsof 60 deaths	1 or 2	60 deaths	1.7%	1.5%
Motorcyclistsof 60 deaths	5	60 deaths	8.3%	11.2%
On a rural roadof 58 fatal crashes with the condition reported	38	58 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	65.5%	36.0%
In the darkof 58 fatal crashes with the condition reported	26	58 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	44.8%	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.Grady 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	4	1 or 2	0	3	8
Monday	0	4	3	1 or 2	8
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Wednesday	0	1 or 2	5	1 or 2	8
Thursday	4	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	10
Friday	0	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	6
Saturday	3	4	1 or 2	4	12
All days	11	17	15	15	58

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.Grady County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Georgia
Interstate	0	0.0%	13.3%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	2.2%
Other principal arterial	21	36.2%	25.9%
Minor arterial	13	22.4%	27.3%
Major collector	10	17.2%	13.3%
Minor collector	5	8.6%	4.8%
Local	9	15.5%	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.Grady County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	31
Dark, not lighted	21
Dark, lighted	4
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Grady County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	41
Cloudy	10
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	4
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	0

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Grady County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Grady	In all of Georgia
State Route 38	State highway	3	55
US Route 84	US highway	5	48
US Route 319	US highway	1 or 2	26

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.Grady 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
Grady County: 23.5

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 Grady County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Gadsden County	Florida	12	147	32.8
Leon County	Florida	38	362	12.3
Decatur County	Georgia	4	86	30.7
Mitchell County	Georgia	8	51	23.6
Thomas County	Georgia	16	94	20.8

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

FARS records 49 deaths in Grady County from 2005 to 2014. It records 60 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Grady in 2024?

The rate of Grady County in 2024 was 30.2 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 Grady had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 8 of 58 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 Grady?

FARS records 3 fatal crashes on State Route 38 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 5 fatal crashes on US Route 84 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on US Route 319 in the county from 2015 to 2024.