Snyder County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Snyder County in 2024.

FARS records 54 deaths in 52 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.5 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, Snyder County was number 57 of 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

Deaths in Snyder County fell by 22.9% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (70) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (54).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 76.9% of the fatal crashes in Snyder County with a known setting were rural, against 45.3% 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 Snyder 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.Snyder County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	3
2023	6	5	1 or 2
2022	5	5	1 or 2
2021	4	4	0
2020	8	8	1 or 2
2019	3	3	0
2018	5	5	1 or 2
2017	4	4	1 or 2
2016	4	4	1 or 2
2015	9	8	4
2015 to 2024	54	52	18

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 20 (1977)2024: 6

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

Table 2.Snyder County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	6	6
2023	6	5
2022	5	5
2021	4	4
2020	8	8
2019	3	3
2018	5	5
2017	4	4
2016	4	4
2015	9	8
2014	7	7
2013	4	4
2012	8	8
2011	5	5
2010	9	8
2009	5	5
2008	9	9
2007	6	6
2006	10	10
2005	7	5
2004	5	5
2003	10	9
2002	7	7
2001	6	6
2000	6	6
1999	9	8
1998	6	6
1997	7	7
1996	13	9
1995	5	5
1994	11	10
1993	5	4
1992	8	7
1991	10	8
1990	12	12
1989	16	14
1988	11	10
1987	13	12
1986	19	16
1985	8	8
1984	4	4
1983	10	10
1982	12	12
1981	8	8
1980	12	11
1979	6	6
1978	8	7
1977	20	15
1976	13	10
1975	18	13

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.Snyder County beside Pennsylvania and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Snyder County	Pennsylvania	United States
2024	15.1	8.6	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.5	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. Snyder County had 39,689 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Snyder County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
A driver recorded as drinkingof 52 fatal crashes	18	52 fatal crashes	34.6%	25.4%
A speeding-related driverof 52 fatal crashes	25	52 fatal crashes	48.1%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 39 occupant deaths with restraint use known	22	39 occupant deathswith restraint use known	56.4%	57.8%
Pedestriansof 54 deaths	1 or 2	54 deaths	3.7%	14.3%
Bicyclistsof 54 deaths	0	54 deaths	0.0%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 54 deaths	11	54 deaths	20.4%	17.3%
On a rural roadof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	40	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	76.9%	45.3%
In the darkof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	18	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	34.6%	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.Snyder 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	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Monday	1 or 2	3	3	1 or 2	9
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	3	3	8
Wednesday	0	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	7
Thursday	0	1 or 2	0	3	5
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	3	9
Saturday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	10
All days	6	14	16	16	52

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.Snyder County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
Interstate	0	0.0%	9.9%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	3.2%
Other principal arterial	16	30.8%	28.1%
Minor arterial	8	15.4%	22.4%
Major collector	11	21.2%	13.1%
Minor collector	3	5.8%	4.2%
Local	14	26.9%	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.Snyder County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	30
Dark, not lighted	15
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Snyder County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	23
Cloudy	4
Rain	6
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	4
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	13

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Snyder County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Snyder	In all of Pennsylvania
State Route 1005	State highway	1 or 2	34
State Route 2007	State highway	1 or 2	22
US Route 11	US highway	7	144
US Route 15	US highway	1 or 2	40

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.Snyder 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
Snyder County: 13.5

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 Snyder County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Juniata County	Pennsylvania	1 or 2	42	17.5
Mifflin County	Pennsylvania	1 or 2	56	12.1
Northumberland County	Pennsylvania	8	103	11.3
Union County	Pennsylvania	4	47	10.7

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 Snyder 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. Snyder County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/pa/snyder/. 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 Snyder in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 70 deaths in Snyder County from 2005 to 2014. It records 54 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Snyder in 2024?

The rate of Snyder County in 2024 was 15.1 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 Snyder had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 18 of 52 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 Snyder?

4 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 11 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.