Pulaski County, Virginia: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 1 or 2 deaths in 1 or 2 fatal crashes in Pulaski County in 2024.

FARS records 46 deaths in 43 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.6 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Virginia in the same years is 10.1.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Pulaski County was number 66 of 133 counties of Virginia.

Deaths in Pulaski County fell by 9.8% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (51) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (46).

In the counties of Virginia the deaths rose by 5.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 81.4% of the fatal crashes in Pulaski County with a known setting were rural, against 55.4% in Virginia.

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 Pulaski 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.Pulaski County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2023	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2022	8	7	1 or 2
2021	4	4	1 or 2
2020	7	6	3
2019	7	7	1 or 2
2018	4	4	0
2017	9	8	3
2016	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2015	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2015 to 2024	46	43	10

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 15 (1976)2024: 1 or 2

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

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

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.Pulaski County beside Virginia and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Pulaski County	Virginia	United States
2024	n/a	10.4	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.6	10.1	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. No rate is given for a count of 1 or 2.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Pulaski County had 33,552 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Pulaski County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Virginia
A driver recorded as drinkingof 43 fatal crashes	10	43 fatal crashes	23.3%	29.4%
A speeding-related driverof 43 fatal crashes	10	43 fatal crashes	23.3%	28.8%
No restraint usedof 36 occupant deaths with restraint use known	19	36 occupant deathswith restraint use known	52.8%	54.3%
Pedestriansof 46 deaths	1 or 2	46 deaths	4.3%	13.9%
Bicyclistsof 46 deaths	0	46 deaths	0.0%	1.6%
Motorcyclistsof 46 deaths	8	46 deaths	17.4%	12.3%
On a rural roadof 43 fatal crashes with the condition reported	35	43 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	81.4%	55.4%
In the darkof 42 fatal crashes with the condition reported	12	42 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	28.6%	45.4%

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.Pulaski 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	0	3	4	7
Monday	1 or 2	0	3	1 or 2	6
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	5	10
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	3
Thursday	1 or 2	0	4	1 or 2	7
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Saturday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
All days	5	4	18	16	43

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.Pulaski County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Virginia
Interstate	9	20.9%	14.8%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	2.6%
Other principal arterial	12	27.9%	26.4%
Minor arterial	8	18.6%	24.4%
Major collector	10	23.3%	18.4%
Minor collector	3	7.0%	3.5%
Local	1 or 2	2.3%	10.0%
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.Pulaski County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	26
Dark, not lighted	11
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Pulaski County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	0
Cloudy	1 or 2
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	36

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Pulaski County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Pulaski	In all of Virginia
Interstate 81	Interstate	9	241
US Route 11	US highway	12	136

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 Virginia

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Pulaski County on the county map of Virginia

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

Fewer than 1039 counties
10 to 14.921 counties
15 to 19.925 counties
20 to 29.927 counties
30 or more15 counties
Count of 1 or 2, no rate shown6 counties
Pulaski County: 13.6

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 Virginia

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Pulaski County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Bland County	Virginia	1 or 2	13	20.6
Carroll County	Virginia	8	64	21.7
Floyd County	Virginia	1 or 2	17	10.9
Giles County	Virginia	1 or 2	33	19.8
Montgomery County	Virginia	11	88	8.9
Radford city	Virginia	0	5	2.9
Wythe County	Virginia	8	81	28.4

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Virginia have a population nearest to that of Pulaski 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.
Virginia DMV Highway Safety OfficeThe highway safety office of Virginia.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Pulaski County, Virginia: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/va/pulaski/. 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 Pulaski in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 51 deaths in Pulaski County from 2005 to 2014. It records 46 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 10 of 43 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 Pulaski?

FARS records 9 fatal crashes on Interstate 81 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 12 fatal crashes on US Route 11 in the county from 2015 to 2024.