Bolivar County, Mississippi: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 77 deaths in 68 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 25.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Mississippi in the same years is 23.8.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Bolivar County was number 34 of 82 counties of Mississippi.

Deaths in Bolivar County fell by 3.7% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (80) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (77).

In the counties of Mississippi the deaths fell by 3.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 63.6% of the fatal crashes in Bolivar County with known light were in the dark, against 46.7% in Mississippi.

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 Bolivar 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.Bolivar County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	5	5	0
2023	11	10	1 or 2
2022	4	4	0
2021	9	8	0
2020	9	8	0
2019	6	5	1 or 2
2018	8	6	1 or 2
2017	4	4	0
2016	8	7	1 or 2
2015	13	11	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	77	68	7

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 16 (1990)2024: 5

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

Table 2.Bolivar County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	5	5
2023	11	10
2022	4	4
2021	9	8
2020	9	8
2019	6	5
2018	8	6
2017	4	4
2016	8	7
2015	13	11
2014	5	5
2013	9	8
2012	8	6
2011	14	12
2010	5	4
2009	6	6
2008	9	8
2007	3	3
2006	11	9
2005	10	9
2004	5	4
2003	10	10
2002	8	8
2001	4	4
2000	8	7
1999	13	11
1998	7	7
1997	14	13
1996	8	7
1995	12	10
1994	15	12
1993	11	11
1992	12	8
1991	11	9
1990	16	10
1989	8	7
1988	5	5
1987	5	5
1986	9	8
1985	14	11
1984	9	7
1983	9	8
1982	9	6
1981	9	8
1980	11	9
1979	9	9
1978	13	12
1977	11	10
1976	13	13
1975	8	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.Bolivar County beside Mississippi and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Bolivar County	Mississippi	United States
2024	17.5	25.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	25.1	23.8	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. Bolivar County had 28,523 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Bolivar County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Mississippi
A driver recorded as drinkingof 68 fatal crashes	7	68 fatal crashes	10.3%	18.5%
A speeding-related driverof 68 fatal crashes	12	68 fatal crashes	17.6%	14.8%
No restraint usedof 46 occupant deaths with restraint use known	30	46 occupant deathswith restraint use known	65.2%	53.0%
Pedestriansof 77 deaths	15	77 deaths	19.5%	11.6%
Bicyclistsof 77 deaths	1 or 2	77 deaths	1.3%	1.3%
Motorcyclistsof 77 deaths	3	77 deaths	3.9%	6.7%
On a rural roadof 67 fatal crashes with the condition reported	54	67 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	80.6%	69.8%
In the darkof 66 fatal crashes with the condition reported	42	66 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	63.6%	46.7%

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.Bolivar 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	6	1 or 2	3	8	19
Monday	3	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Tuesday	1 or 2	0	0	4	6
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	3	10
Thursday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	3	7
Friday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	10
Saturday	5	0	3	1 or 2	10
All days	22	5	16	25	68

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.Bolivar County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Mississippi
Interstate	0	0.0%	12.3%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	0.4%
Other principal arterial	32	47.8%	27.9%
Minor arterial	11	16.4%	22.1%
Major collector	16	23.9%	19.3%
Minor collector	1 or 2	3.0%	6.5%
Local	6	9.0%	11.4%
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.Bolivar County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	21
Dark, not lighted	31
Dark, lighted	8
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	3
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Bolivar County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	53
Cloudy	9
Rain	1 or 2
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	3

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Bolivar County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Bolivar	In all of Mississippi
State Route 1	State highway	5	25
State Route 8	State highway	7	39
State Route 32	State highway	1 or 2	22
US Route 61	US highway	27	169

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 Mississippi

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Bolivar County on the county map of Mississippi

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

Fewer than 100 counties
10 to 14.95 counties
15 to 19.98 counties
20 to 29.936 counties
30 or more33 counties
Bolivar County: 25.1

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 Mississippi

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Bolivar County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Chicot County	Arkansas	0	48	47.0
Desha County	Arkansas	3	21	18.7
Phillips County	Arkansas	1 or 2	41	24.1
Coahoma County	Mississippi	3	59	27.0
Sunflower County	Mississippi	6	63	24.9
Washington County	Mississippi	24	142	32.0

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Mississippi have a population nearest to that of Bolivar 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. Bolivar County, Mississippi: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ms/bolivar/. 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 Bolivar in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 80 deaths in Bolivar County from 2005 to 2014. It records 77 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Bolivar in 2024?

The rate of Bolivar County in 2024 was 17.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Mississippi was 25.5. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 7 of 68 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 Bolivar?

4 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.