Calhoun County, South Carolina: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 67 deaths in 60 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 46.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of South Carolina in the same years is 20.3.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Calhoun County was number 37 of 46 counties of South Carolina.

Deaths in Calhoun County fell by 24.7% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (89) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (67).

In the counties of South Carolina the deaths rose by 14.8% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 100.0% of the fatal crashes in Calhoun County with a known setting were rural, against 58.5% in South Carolina.

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 Calhoun County by year, 2015 to 2024

1 or 2

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.Calhoun County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	1 or 2
2023	7	7	3
2022	4	4	1 or 2
2021	9	8	1 or 2
2020	4	4	0
2019	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2018	8	6	1 or 2
2017	7	7	1 or 2
2016	10	9	3
2015	10	8	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	67	60	16

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 15 (1990)2024: 6

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

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

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.Calhoun County beside South Carolina and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Calhoun County	South Carolina	United States
2024	42.3	18.9	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	46.5	20.3	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. Calhoun County had 14,186 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Calhoun County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in South Carolina
A driver recorded as drinkingof 60 fatal crashes	16	60 fatal crashes	26.7%	32.2%
A speeding-related driverof 60 fatal crashes	33	60 fatal crashes	55.0%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 57 occupant deaths with restraint use known	32	57 occupant deathswith restraint use known	56.1%	53.2%
Pedestriansof 67 deaths	6	67 deaths	9.0%	15.7%
Bicyclistsof 67 deaths	0	67 deaths	0.0%	2.2%
Motorcyclistsof 67 deaths	3	67 deaths	4.5%	15.4%
On a rural roadof 60 fatal crashes with the condition reported	60	60 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	100.0%	58.5%
In the darkof 60 fatal crashes with the condition reported	28	60 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	46.7%	51.8%

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.Calhoun 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	5	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	10
Monday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	6
Tuesday	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Wednesday	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	3	10
Thursday	1 or 2	6	1 or 2	1 or 2	10
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Saturday	5	1 or 2	5	5	16
All days	15	15	13	17	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.Calhoun County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in South Carolina
Interstate	16	26.7%	10.8%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.6%
Other principal arterial	13	21.7%	31.5%
Minor arterial	15	25.0%	33.9%
Major collector	6	10.0%	11.5%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	1.4%
Local	10	16.7%	9.4%
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.Calhoun County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	27
Dark, not lighted	26
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	4
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Calhoun County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	47
Cloudy	3
Rain	7
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Calhoun County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Calhoun	In all of South Carolina
Interstate 26	Interstate	16	298
State Route 6	State highway	6	83
State Route 24	State highway	1 or 2	50
State Route 31	State highway	1 or 2	54
State Route 33	State highway	1 or 2	34
State Route 36	State highway	1 or 2	23
State Route 43	State highway	1 or 2	22
State Route 135	State highway	1 or 2	23
US Route 21	US highway	5	156
US Route 176	US highway	5	134
US Route 601	US highway	5	49

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 South Carolina

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Calhoun County on the county map of South Carolina

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

Fewer than 100 counties
10 to 14.93 counties
15 to 19.913 counties
20 to 29.913 counties
30 or more17 counties
Calhoun County: 46.5

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 South Carolina

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Calhoun County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Clarendon County	South Carolina	9	146	44.9
Lexington County	South Carolina	54	501	16.8
Orangeburg County	South Carolina	48	387	45.3
Richland County	South Carolina	63	585	14.0
Sumter County	South Carolina	23	234	22.1

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of South Carolina have a population nearest to that of Calhoun 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. Calhoun County, South Carolina: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/sc/calhoun/. 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 Calhoun in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 89 deaths in Calhoun County from 2005 to 2014. It records 67 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Calhoun in 2024?

The rate of Calhoun County in 2024 was 42.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of South Carolina was 18.9. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 16 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 Calhoun?

11 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 44 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.