Crawford County, Kansas: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Crawford County in 2024.

FARS records 54 deaths in 52 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.8 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Kansas in the same years is 13.8.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Crawford County was number 15 of 105 counties of Kansas.

Deaths in Crawford County rose by 1.9% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (53) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (54).

In the counties of Kansas the deaths rose by 0.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, a driver was recorded as drinking in 36.5% of fatal crashes in Crawford County and 22.5% in Kansas.

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 Crawford 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.Crawford County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	5
2023	5	5	1 or 2
2022	5	5	3
2021	7	6	3
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2019	7	7	4
2018	4	4	0
2017	6	6	1 or 2
2016	9	8	0
2015	4	4	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	54	52	19

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 16 (1981)2024: 6

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

Table 2.Crawford County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	6	6
2023	5	5
2022	5	5
2021	7	6
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2
2019	7	7
2018	4	4
2017	6	6
2016	9	8
2015	4	4
2014	4	3
2013	4	4
2012	1 or 2	1 or 2
2011	1 or 2	1 or 2
2010	5	4
2009	4	4
2008	1 or 2	1 or 2
2007	5	5
2006	15	14
2005	11	9
2004	5	5
2003	6	5
2002	6	4
2001	8	8
2000	11	8
1999	8	8
1998	7	6
1997	12	10
1996	5	5
1995	9	8
1994	10	10
1993	10	8
1992	6	6
1991	5	5
1990	8	7
1989	6	6
1988	16	10
1987	15	12
1986	8	7
1985	12	10
1984	8	7
1983	6	6
1982	4	4
1981	16	12
1980	4	3
1979	4	4
1978	7	6
1977	10	10
1976	7	7
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.Crawford County beside Kansas and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Crawford County	Kansas	United States
2024	15.4	11.4	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.8	13.8	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. Crawford County had 38,960 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Crawford County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Kansas
A driver recorded as drinkingof 52 fatal crashes	19	52 fatal crashes	36.5%	22.5%
A speeding-related driverof 52 fatal crashes	9	52 fatal crashes	17.3%	24.2%
No restraint usedof 46 occupant deaths with restraint use known	29	46 occupant deathswith restraint use known	63.0%	52.4%
Pedestriansof 54 deaths	1 or 2	54 deaths	3.7%	8.3%
Bicyclistsof 54 deaths	1 or 2	54 deaths	3.7%	1.4%
Motorcyclistsof 54 deaths	1 or 2	54 deaths	3.7%	12.9%
On a rural roadof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	37	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	71.2%	63.3%
In the darkof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	23	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	44.2%	41.0%

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.Crawford 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	1 or 2	0	5
Monday	0	4	4	3	11
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	0	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	7
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	5
Friday	0	0	3	4	7
Saturday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	4	10
All days	8	11	19	14	52

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.Crawford County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Kansas
Interstate	0	0.0%	12.5%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	5.5%
Other principal arterial	13	25.0%	24.1%
Minor arterial	14	26.9%	20.7%
Major collector	16	30.8%	19.1%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	2.4%
Local	9	17.3%	15.7%
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.Crawford County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	27
Dark, not lighted	18
Dark, lighted	5
Dawn	0
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Crawford County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	9
Cloudy	5
Rain	1 or 2
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	35

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Crawford County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Crawford	In all of Kansas
State Route 7	State highway	4	32
US Route 69	US highway	10	51
US Route 160	US highway	1 or 2	64
US Route 169	US highway	1 or 2	50
US Route 400	US highway	1 or 2	47

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 Kansas

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Crawford County on the county map of Kansas

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

Fewer than 104 counties
10 to 14.917 counties
15 to 19.916 counties
20 to 29.929 counties
30 or more38 counties
Count of 1 or 2, no rate shown1 county
Crawford County: 13.8

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 Kansas

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Crawford County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Bourbon County	Kansas	1 or 2	19	13.1
Cherokee County	Kansas	4	44	22.4
Labette County	Kansas	1 or 2	42	21.0
Neosho County	Kansas	6	30	18.9
Barton County	Missouri	3	25	21.3
Jasper County	Missouri	24	180	14.7
Vernon County	Missouri	5	35	17.4

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Kansas have a population nearest to that of Crawford 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.
Governors Highway Safety Association: State Highway Safety OfficesThe list of the highway safety offices of the states.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Crawford County, Kansas: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ks/crawford/. 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 Crawford in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 53 deaths in Crawford County from 2005 to 2014. It records 54 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Crawford in 2024?

The rate of Crawford County in 2024 was 15.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Kansas was 11.4. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 19 of 52 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 Crawford?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 17 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.