New Madrid County, Missouri: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 9 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in New Madrid County in 2024.

FARS records 68 deaths in 60 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 40.8 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, New Madrid County was number 37 of 115 counties of Missouri.

Deaths in New Madrid County fell by 13.9% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (79) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (68).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 86.4% of the fatal crashes in New Madrid 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 New Madrid 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.New Madrid County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	9	5	1 or 2
2023	6	6	1 or 2
2022	10	9	1 or 2
2021	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2020	9	7	1 or 2
2019	5	5	0
2018	5	5	1 or 2
2017	10	9	1 or 2
2016	8	8	0
2015	4	4	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	68	60	13

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (2003)2024: 9

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

Table 2.New Madrid County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	9	5
2023	6	6
2022	10	9
2021	1 or 2	1 or 2
2020	9	7
2019	5	5
2018	5	5
2017	10	9
2016	8	8
2015	4	4
2014	6	6
2013	8	8
2012	0	0
2011	8	6
2010	12	12
2009	11	10
2008	9	8
2007	6	6
2006	8	7
2005	11	10
2004	5	5
2003	19	15
2002	6	6
2001	14	12
2000	3	3
1999	6	6
1998	13	13
1997	15	14
1996	17	12
1995	9	9
1994	8	8
1993	9	7
1992	5	5
1991	13	8
1990	10	8
1989	7	7
1988	5	5
1987	8	8
1986	13	8
1985	4	3
1984	4	3
1983	8	8
1982	15	9
1981	9	9
1980	8	6
1979	11	10
1978	7	6
1977	7	6
1976	9	6
1975	14	11

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.New Madrid County beside Missouri and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	New Madrid County	Missouri	United States
2024	58.9	15.3	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	40.8	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. New Madrid County had 15,281 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.New Madrid County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Missouri
A driver recorded as drinkingof 60 fatal crashes	13	60 fatal crashes	21.7%	27.5%
A speeding-related driverof 60 fatal crashes	9	60 fatal crashes	15.0%	36.5%
No restraint usedof 58 occupant deaths with restraint use known	34	58 occupant deathswith restraint use known	58.6%	63.5%
Pedestriansof 68 deaths	3	68 deaths	4.4%	11.9%
Bicyclistsof 68 deaths	1 or 2	68 deaths	1.5%	1.0%
Motorcyclistsof 68 deaths	4	68 deaths	5.9%	14.1%
On a rural roadof 59 fatal crashes with the condition reported	51	59 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	86.4%	52.2%
In the darkof 59 fatal crashes with the condition reported	24	59 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	40.7%	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.New Madrid 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	0	0	1 or 2	6
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	9
Tuesday	0	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
Wednesday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Thursday	1 or 2	5	4	3	13
Friday	1 or 2	3	3	1 or 2	9
Saturday	3	1 or 2	4	5	14
All days	12	15	18	15	60

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.New Madrid County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Missouri
Interstate	13	21.7%	15.3%
Other freeways and expressways	5	8.3%	7.0%
Other principal arterial	4	6.7%	23.2%
Minor arterial	5	8.3%	20.9%
Major collector	23	38.3%	19.3%
Minor collector	1 or 2	1.7%	2.5%
Local	9	15.0%	11.9%
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.New Madrid County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	35
Dark, not lighted	23
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	0
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.New Madrid County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	46
Cloudy	10
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 New Madrid County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In New Madrid	In all of Missouri
Interstate 55	Interstate	13	179
State Route D	State highway	1 or 2	84
State Route F	State highway	1 or 2	46
State Route J	State highway	1 or 2	44
State Route P	State highway	1 or 2	25
State Route U	State highway	3	42
State Route W	State highway	1 or 2	42
US Route 60	US highway	8	156
US Route 61	US highway	11	158

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.New Madrid 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
New Madrid County: 40.8

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 Missouri

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with New Madrid County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Fulton County	Kentucky	0	13	20.8
Dunklin County	Missouri	6	73	25.4
Mississippi County	Missouri	3	31	24.3
Pemiscot County	Missouri	7	62	39.2
Scott County	Missouri	6	61	15.9
Stoddard County	Missouri	5	60	20.7
Lake County	Tennessee	0	12	17.2

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 New Madrid 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. New Madrid County, Missouri: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/mo/new-madrid/. 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 New Madrid in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 79 deaths in New Madrid County from 2005 to 2014. It records 68 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of New Madrid in 2024?

The rate of New Madrid County in 2024 was 58.9 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 New Madrid had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 13 of 60 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 New Madrid?

9 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 41 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.