Kay County, Oklahoma: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 7 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Kay County in 2024.

FARS records 84 deaths in 76 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 19.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Oklahoma in the same years is 17.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Kay County was number 27 of 77 counties of Oklahoma.

Deaths in Kay County fell by 27.0% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (115) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (84).

In the counties of Oklahoma the deaths fell by 6.6% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 77.6% of the fatal crashes in Kay County with a known setting were rural, against 59.5% in Oklahoma.

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 Kay 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.Kay County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	7	6	1 or 2
2023	10	10	4
2022	11	8	1 or 2
2021	12	11	4
2020	6	5	1 or 2
2019	6	6	1 or 2
2018	7	7	1 or 2
2017	4	4	0
2016	6	5	1 or 2
2015	15	14	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	84	76	19

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 22 (1976)2024: 7

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

Table 2.Kay County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	7	6
2023	10	10
2022	11	8
2021	12	11
2020	6	5
2019	6	6
2018	7	7
2017	4	4
2016	6	5
2015	15	14
2014	1 or 2	1 or 2
2013	12	11
2012	8	8
2011	9	9
2010	9	8
2009	19	16
2008	15	14
2007	15	11
2006	8	7
2005	18	15
2004	12	11
2003	9	8
2002	22	17
2001	10	8
2000	11	9
1999	8	6
1998	13	11
1997	16	15
1996	11	11
1995	12	12
1994	10	9
1993	15	13
1992	16	14
1991	12	10
1990	10	10
1989	12	11
1988	8	8
1987	7	7
1986	5	5
1985	5	5
1984	22	19
1983	17	13
1982	14	12
1981	15	13
1980	14	11
1979	12	10
1978	15	11
1977	10	9
1976	22	18
1975	17	15

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.Kay County beside Oklahoma and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Kay County	Oklahoma	United States
2024	16.0	15.7	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	19.1	17.0	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. Kay County had 43,637 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Kay County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Oklahoma
A driver recorded as drinkingof 76 fatal crashes	19	76 fatal crashes	25.0%	26.5%
A speeding-related driverof 76 fatal crashes	15	76 fatal crashes	19.7%	26.0%
No restraint usedof 56 occupant deaths with restraint use known	33	56 occupant deathswith restraint use known	58.9%	53.7%
Pedestriansof 84 deaths	8	84 deaths	9.5%	12.3%
Bicyclistsof 84 deaths	1 or 2	84 deaths	2.4%	1.6%
Motorcyclistsof 84 deaths	12	84 deaths	14.3%	12.9%
On a rural roadof 76 fatal crashes with the condition reported	59	76 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	77.6%	59.5%
In the darkof 76 fatal crashes with the condition reported	33	76 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	43.4%	45.2%

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.Kay 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	3	1 or 2	4	0	9
Monday	1 or 2	5	5	1 or 2	13
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	7
Thursday	3	5	1 or 2	3	12
Friday	1 or 2	4	4	4	14
Saturday	4	4	3	1 or 2	13
All days	15	23	22	15	75

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.Kay County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Oklahoma
Interstate	14	18.4%	13.5%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.9%
Other principal arterial	7	9.2%	26.1%
Minor arterial	23	30.3%	20.1%
Major collector	19	25.0%	24.0%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	0.6%
Local	13	17.1%	13.8%
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.Kay County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	40
Dark, not lighted	27
Dark, lighted	6
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Kay County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	55
Cloudy	15
Rain	4
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 Kay County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Kay	In all of Oklahoma
Interstate 35	Interstate	14	204
State Route 11	State highway	11	46
US Route 60	US highway	1 or 2	61
US Route 77	US highway	16	94
US Route 177	US highway	3	90

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 Oklahoma

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Kay County on the county map of Oklahoma

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

Fewer than 102 counties
10 to 14.99 counties
15 to 19.915 counties
20 to 29.922 counties
30 or more29 counties
Kay County: 19.1

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 Oklahoma

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Kay County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Cowley County	Kansas	7	54	15.5
Sumner County	Kansas	4	60	26.4
Garfield County	Oklahoma	10	69	11.1
Grant County	Oklahoma	1 or 2	16	37.5
Noble County	Oklahoma	0	46	41.3
Osage County	Oklahoma	11	89	19.1

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Oklahoma have a population nearest to that of Kay 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. Kay County, Oklahoma: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ok/kay/. 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 Kay in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 115 deaths in Kay County from 2005 to 2014. It records 84 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Kay in 2024?

The rate of Kay County in 2024 was 16.0 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Oklahoma was 15.7. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 19 of 76 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 Kay?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 46 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.