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US Route 70 fatal crashes in Tennessee

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FARS records 214 fatal crashes with 228 deaths on US Route 70 in Tennessee from 2015 to 2024.

In 2024 it records 23 fatal crashes with 25 deaths on the route.

By fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024, US Route 70 was number 3 of the 84 routes of Tennessee with a page.

From 2015 to 2024, a speeding-related driver was recorded in 9.8% of fatal crashes on US Route 70 and 16.5% in Tennessee.

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 .

This page rests on the FARS 2024 annual file. NHTSA released it on . NHTSA can revise the counts in the final file. Release dates

Figure 1.Fatal crashes on US Route 70 in Tennessee by year, 2015 to 2024

Table 1 has the numbers. Go to the table

Since the last update: no figure of this route has a change on record.

Fatal crashes by year

The counts of some years are not complete. In the years 2000 to 2011, FARS wrote the US routes of Tennessee with state route numbers, for example "US-SR 1". This site cannot assign these crashes to this route, so the counts of those years are too low. This site does not guess a US route from a state route number.

Table 1.US Route 70 in Tennessee: fatal crashes and deaths by year, 2000 to 2024
YearFatal crashesDeaths
20242325
20232929
20222526
20212628
20202021
20191418
20182121
20172124
20161515
20152021
20141516
20132525
20121416
201100
201000
200900
200800
200700
200600
200500
200400
200300
200200
200100
200000

Note: the route is the trafficway that FARS records for the crash. The records of routes start in 2000. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Counties on the route

Table 2.US Route 70: fatal crashes on the route in each county, 2015 to 2024, in name order
CountyOn the routeOn all roads of the county
Benton County535
Cannon County1 or 239
Carroll County1247
Cheatham County577
Cumberland County22133
Davidson County40981
DeKalb County1742
Dickson County13118
Fayette County1 or 278
Gibson County1 or 272
Greene County1 or 2167
Haywood County571
Humphreys County1161
Knox County1 or 2611
Loudon County490
Madison County16164
Putnam County1 or 2121
Roane County1198
Rutherford County1 or 2340
Shelby County41,755
Tipton County1 or 268
Warren County369
White County941
Wilson County26196

Note: the table has the counties where FARS records a fatal crash on the route in these years.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 3.US Route 70 in Tennessee: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
FactorCountCounted amongShareShare on all roads of Tennessee
A driver recorded as drinkingof 214 fatal crashes53214 fatal crashes24.5%
A speeding-related driverof 214 fatal crashes21214 fatal crashes16.5%
Pedestriansof 228 deaths29228 deaths13.0%
Motorcyclistsof 228 deaths26228 deaths13.8%

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. One crash can be in two 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 .

Time of day

Table 4.US Route 70 in Tennessee: fatal crashes by time of day, 2015 to 2024
Time of dayFatal crashesShareShare on all roads of Tennessee
Midnight to 6 a.m.3215.3%17.1%
6 a.m. to noon3717.7%18.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.8339.7%31.8%
6 p.m. to midnight5727.3%32.4%

Note: the table has the fatal crashes with a known hour.

Mile ranges

Table 5.US Route 70 in Tennessee: fatal crashes by range of five miles, 2015 to 2024
MilepointFatal crashes
Mile 0 to 542
Mile 5 to 1048
Mile 10 to 1542
Mile 15 to 2034
Mile 20 to 2529
Mile 25 to 3015

Note: the table has the six ranges of five miles with the largest counts, in the order of the milepoint. 100 percent of the fatal crashes on the route have a milepoint in FARS. A state can start its milepoints again at a county line.

Routes in the same counties

These routes of Tennessee have a fatal crash on record in one or more of the same counties. The list is for navigation. The number is the fatal crashes on the route from 2015 to 2024.

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Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national files of 2000 to 2024. A route page is built for a signed Interstate, US or state route with 20 or more fatal crashes in a state in ten years. Data to . The figures are totals. No page of this site is about one crash or one person.

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Questions

How many fatal crashes did FARS record on US Route 70 in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 54 fatal crashes on US Route 70 in Tennessee from 2005 to 2014. It records 214 from 2015 to 2024. The figures of 2005 to 2011 are not complete. This site makes no comparison of the two periods.

What part of the fatal crashes in Tennessee was on US Route 70?

214 of the 10,680 fatal crashes in Tennessee from 2015 to 2024 were on US Route 70. That is 2.0 percent.

How many fatal crashes on US Route 70 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 53 of 214 fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024. It records a speeding-related driver in 21 of them.

Does this page count the same route number in a different state?

No. This page counts the fatal crashes that FARS records on US Route 70 in Tennessee only. The route in a different state has its own page.