Lawrence County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 4 fatal crashes in Lawrence County in 2024.

FARS records 97 deaths in 91 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 11.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Pennsylvania in the same years is 9.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Lawrence County was number 39 of 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

Deaths in Lawrence County fell by 8.5% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (106) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (97).

In the counties of Pennsylvania the deaths fell by 14.8% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, motorcyclists were 25.8% of the deaths in Lawrence County and 17.3% in Pennsylvania.

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 Lawrence 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.Lawrence County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	4	0
2023	6	6	3
2022	8	7	0
2021	11	10	3
2020	11	11	0
2019	8	8	1 or 2
2018	17	16	4
2017	9	9	1 or 2
2016	10	10	3
2015	11	10	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	97	91	18

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 24 (1975)2024: 6

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

Table 2.Lawrence County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	6	4
2023	6	6
2022	8	7
2021	11	10
2020	11	11
2019	8	8
2018	17	16
2017	9	9
2016	10	10
2015	11	10
2014	10	10
2013	8	8
2012	11	10
2011	13	13
2010	11	11
2009	8	8
2008	12	11
2007	8	8
2006	12	10
2005	13	12
2004	9	9
2003	18	17
2002	15	14
2001	10	9
2000	15	13
1999	14	12
1998	22	18
1997	15	13
1996	11	10
1995	8	6
1994	9	9
1993	7	7
1992	16	13
1991	6	6
1990	13	13
1989	16	16
1988	17	15
1987	13	13
1986	14	14
1985	15	13
1984	15	15
1983	9	8
1982	18	18
1981	12	10
1980	17	13
1979	13	13
1978	19	17
1977	12	11
1976	21	18
1975	24	22

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.Lawrence County beside Pennsylvania and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Lawrence County	Pennsylvania	United States
2024	7.1	8.6	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	11.3	9.0	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. Lawrence County had 84,087 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Lawrence County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
A driver recorded as drinkingof 91 fatal crashes	18	91 fatal crashes	19.8%	25.4%
A speeding-related driverof 91 fatal crashes	40	91 fatal crashes	44.0%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 55 occupant deaths with restraint use known	36	55 occupant deathswith restraint use known	65.5%	57.8%
Pedestriansof 97 deaths	8	97 deaths	8.2%	14.3%
Bicyclistsof 97 deaths	0	97 deaths	0.0%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 97 deaths	25	97 deaths	25.8%	17.3%
On a rural roadof 91 fatal crashes with the condition reported	46	91 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	50.5%	45.3%
In the darkof 91 fatal crashes with the condition reported	36	91 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	39.6%	43.6%

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.Lawrence 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	4	3	11
Monday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	8
Tuesday	0	4	1 or 2	3	9
Wednesday	1 or 2	3	5	3	12
Thursday	0	4	7	5	16
Friday	1 or 2	6	6	9	22
Saturday	5	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	13
All days	12	20	28	31	91

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.Lawrence County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
Interstate	5	5.5%	9.9%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	3.2%
Other principal arterial	28	30.8%	28.1%
Minor arterial	26	28.6%	22.4%
Major collector	15	16.5%	13.1%
Minor collector	3	3.3%	4.2%
Local	14	15.4%	19.1%
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.Lawrence County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	50
Dark, not lighted	24
Dark, lighted	11
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	3
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Lawrence County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	44
Cloudy	1 or 2
Rain	12
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	29

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Lawrence County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Lawrence	In all of Pennsylvania
Interstate 76	Interstate	1 or 2	123
Interstate 376	Interstate	3	43
State Route 18	State highway	12	46
State Route 65	State highway	9	28
State Route 1002	State highway	1 or 2	26
State Route 4002	State highway	1 or 2	25
State Route 4004	State highway	1 or 2	22
US Route 19	US highway	1 or 2	66
US Route 422	US highway	8	111

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 Pennsylvania

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Lawrence County on the county map of Pennsylvania

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

Fewer than 1019 counties
10 to 14.928 counties
15 to 19.917 counties
20 to 29.92 counties
30 or more1 county
Lawrence County: 11.3

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 Pennsylvania

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Lawrence County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Columbiana County	Ohio	11	88	8.6
Mahoning County	Ohio	18	210	9.2
Beaver County	Pennsylvania	4	117	7.0
Butler County	Pennsylvania	15	182	9.5
Mercer County	Pennsylvania	15	135	12.2

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Pennsylvania have a population nearest to that of Lawrence 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.
Pennsylvania Department of TransportationThe highway safety office of Pennsylvania.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Lawrence County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/pa/lawrence/. 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 Lawrence in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 106 deaths in Lawrence County from 2005 to 2014. It records 97 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Lawrence in 2024?

The rate of Lawrence County in 2024 was 7.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Pennsylvania was 8.6. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 18 of 91 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 Lawrence?

9 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 38 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.