Christian County, Missouri: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 93 deaths in 84 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 10.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Missouri in the same years is 15.5.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Christian County was number 24 of 115 counties of Missouri.

Deaths in Christian County rose by 3.3% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (90) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (93).

In the counties of Missouri the deaths rose by 4.6% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 77.4% of the fatal crashes in Christian County with a known setting were rural, against 52.2% in Missouri.

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 Christian 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.Christian 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	3	3	1 or 2
2022	8	8	1 or 2
2021	6	5	1 or 2
2020	17	15	5
2019	8	8	1 or 2
2018	12	10	5
2017	12	9	3
2016	11	11	1 or 2
2015	11	10	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	93	84	22

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 21 (1991)2024: 5

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

Table 2.Christian County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	5	5
2023	3	3
2022	8	8
2021	6	5
2020	17	15
2019	8	8
2018	12	10
2017	12	9
2016	11	11
2015	11	10
2014	9	9
2013	6	6
2012	11	9
2011	8	8
2010	10	9
2009	7	6
2008	5	5
2007	13	12
2006	8	8
2005	13	12
2004	10	9
2003	15	13
2002	16	15
2001	6	5
2000	6	6
1999	8	7
1998	8	7
1997	13	11
1996	14	13
1995	14	10
1994	16	13
1993	18	15
1992	8	7
1991	21	17
1990	11	10
1989	11	10
1988	9	9
1987	7	7
1986	13	9
1985	8	8
1984	10	9
1983	11	10
1982	9	8
1981	9	7
1980	13	10
1979	9	7
1978	14	12
1977	9	8
1976	5	5
1975	12	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.Christian County beside Missouri and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Christian County	Missouri	United States
2024	5.2	15.3	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	10.4	15.5	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. Christian County had 96,036 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Christian County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Missouri
A driver recorded as drinkingof 84 fatal crashes	22	84 fatal crashes	26.2%	27.5%
A speeding-related driverof 84 fatal crashes	36	84 fatal crashes	42.9%	36.5%
No restraint usedof 67 occupant deaths with restraint use known	40	67 occupant deathswith restraint use known	59.7%	63.5%
Pedestriansof 93 deaths	4	93 deaths	4.3%	11.9%
Bicyclistsof 93 deaths	3	93 deaths	3.2%	1.0%
Motorcyclistsof 93 deaths	15	93 deaths	16.1%	14.1%
On a rural roadof 84 fatal crashes with the condition reported	65	84 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	77.4%	52.2%
In the darkof 82 fatal crashes with the condition reported	31	82 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	37.8%	45.3%

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.Christian 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	6	3	6	17
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	7	1 or 2	12
Tuesday	1 or 2	4	4	1 or 2	11
Wednesday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	8
Thursday	0	1 or 2	7	3	12
Friday	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	3	9
Saturday	6	1 or 2	5	3	15
All days	11	20	29	24	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.Christian County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Missouri
Interstate	0	0.0%	15.3%
Other freeways and expressways	14	16.9%	7.0%
Other principal arterial	17	20.5%	23.2%
Minor arterial	16	19.3%	20.9%
Major collector	19	22.9%	19.3%
Minor collector	3	3.6%	2.5%
Local	14	16.9%	11.9%
Not reported	1 or 2	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.Christian County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	51
Dark, not lighted	28
Dark, lighted	3
Dawn	0
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Christian County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	56
Cloudy	24
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	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Christian County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Christian	In all of Missouri
State Route 14	State highway	11	21
State Route 25	State highway	1 or 2	29
State Route BB	State highway	1 or 2	25
State Route CC	State highway	1 or 2	29
State Route H	State highway	1 or 2	82
State Route J	State highway	1 or 2	44
State Route K	State highway	1 or 2	45
State Route M	State highway	1 or 2	53
State Route N	State highway	1 or 2	58
State Route O	State highway	1 or 2	47
State Route P	State highway	1 or 2	25
State Route Z	State highway	1 or 2	33
US Route 60	US highway	4	156
US Route 65	US highway	13	116
US Route 160	US highway	11	75

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 Missouri

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Christian County on the county map of Missouri

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

Fewer than 104 counties
10 to 14.917 counties
15 to 19.926 counties
20 to 29.950 counties
30 or more18 counties
Christian County: 10.4

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 Missouri

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Christian County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Douglas County	Missouri	1 or 2	36	28.4
Greene County	Missouri	38	398	13.4
Lawrence County	Missouri	10	123	32.0
Stone County	Missouri	10	82	25.8
Taney County	Missouri	13	115	20.6
Webster County	Missouri	10	82	20.7

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Missouri have a population nearest to that of Christian 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. Christian County, Missouri: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/mo/christian/. 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 Christian in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 90 deaths in Christian County from 2005 to 2014. It records 93 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Christian in 2024?

The rate of Christian County in 2024 was 5.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Missouri was 15.3. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 22 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 Christian?

15 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 51 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.