St. James Parish, Louisiana: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in St. James Parish in 2024.

FARS records 57 deaths in 48 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 27.9 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Louisiana in the same years is 17.3.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, St. James Parish was number 42 of 64 counties of Louisiana.

Deaths in St. James Parish fell by 24.0% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (75) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (57).

In the counties of Louisiana the deaths fell by 2.5% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 75.0% of the fatal crashes in St. James Parish with a known setting were rural, against 45.1% in Louisiana.

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 St. James Parish 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.St. James Parish: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	5	5	3
2023	5	5	1 or 2
2022	5	4	1 or 2
2021	11	7	1 or 2
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2019	8	8	1 or 2
2018	8	6	1 or 2
2017	4	4	1 or 2
2016	4	3	1 or 2
2015	5	4	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	57	48	13

Each year from 1975

Figure 2.Deaths in St. James Parish by year, 1975 to 2024

Tallest column: 15 (1987)2024: 5

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

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

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.St. James Parish beside Louisiana and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	St. James Parish	Louisiana	United States
2024	26.2	16.3	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	27.9	17.3	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. St. James Parish had 19,112 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.St. James Parish: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Louisiana
A driver recorded as drinkingof 48 fatal crashes	13	48 fatal crashes	27.1%	30.9%
A speeding-related driverof 48 fatal crashes	8	48 fatal crashes	16.7%	22.4%
No restraint usedof 39 occupant deaths with restraint use known	20	39 occupant deathswith restraint use known	51.3%	57.5%
Pedestriansof 57 deaths	11	57 deaths	19.3%	17.9%
Bicyclistsof 57 deaths	0	57 deaths	0.0%	4.0%
Motorcyclistsof 57 deaths	1 or 2	57 deaths	3.5%	10.9%
On a rural roadof 48 fatal crashes with the condition reported	36	48 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	75.0%	45.1%
In the darkof 48 fatal crashes with the condition reported	24	48 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	50.0%	54.3%

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.St. James Parish: 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	1 or 2	1 or 2	8
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	8
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	4	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	8
Saturday	3	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
All days	13	9	11	15	48

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.St. James Parish: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Louisiana
Interstate	8	16.7%	14.5%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.4%
Other principal arterial	11	22.9%	23.6%
Minor arterial	9	18.8%	21.2%
Major collector	17	35.4%	16.6%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	5.6%
Local	3	6.3%	17.0%
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.St. James Parish: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	18
Dark, not lighted	15
Dark, lighted	9
Dawn	3
Dusk	3
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.St. James Parish: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	35
Cloudy	6
Rain	5
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 St. James Parish that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In St. James	In all of Louisiana
Interstate 10	Interstate	8	472
State Route 18	State highway	6	25
State Route 20	State highway	5	27
State Route 44	State highway	1 or 2	27
State Route 70	State highway	3	28
US Route 61	US highway	8	241

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 Louisiana

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.St. James Parish on the county map of Louisiana

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

Fewer than 101 county
10 to 14.911 counties
15 to 19.913 counties
20 to 29.928 counties
30 or more11 counties
St. James Parish: 27.9

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 Louisiana

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with St. James Parish
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Ascension Parish	Louisiana	22	237	18.7
Assumption Parish	Louisiana	4	52	24.2
Lafourche Parish	Louisiana	14	215	22.1
St. John the Baptist Parish	Louisiana	8	104	24.7

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Louisiana have a population nearest to that of St. James Parish. 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.
Louisiana Highway Safety CommissionThe highway safety office of Louisiana.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. St. James Parish, Louisiana: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/la/st-james/. 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 St. James in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 75 deaths in St. James Parish from 2005 to 2014. It records 57 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of St. James in 2024?

The rate of St. James Parish in 2024 was 26.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Louisiana was 16.3. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

How many fatal crashes in St. James had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 13 of 48 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 St. James?

6 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 32 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.