US Route 59 fatal crashes in Texas

FARS records 432 fatal crashes with 517 deaths on US Route 59 in Texas from 2015 to 2024.

In 2024 it records 42 fatal crashes with 48 deaths on the route.

By fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024, US Route 59 was number 5 of the 147 routes of Texas with a page.

Fatal crashes on US Route 59 fell by 11.7% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (489) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (432).

In Texas they rose by 19.0% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, a driver was recorded as drinking in 16.4% of fatal crashes on US Route 59 and 25.5% in Texas.

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.Fatal crashes on US Route 59 in Texas 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

Table 1.US Route 59 in Texas: fatal crashes and deaths by year, 2000 to 2024
Year	Fatal crashes	Deaths
2024	42	48
2023	47	49
2022	38	48
2021	47	60
2020	53	65
2019	40	50
2018	42	49
2017	41	43
2016	46	57
2015	36	48
2014	46	54
2013	43	53
2012	57	76
2011	45	50
2010	38	45
2009	56	62
2008	48	53
2007	50	61
2006	59	67
2005	47	51
2004	72	77
2003	65	77
2002	65	83
2001	58	61
2000	83	104

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 59: fatal crashes on the route in each county, 2015 to 2024, in name order
County	On the route	On all roads of the county
Angelina County	26	155
Bee County	9	44
Bowie County	11	143
Cass County	29	87
Duval County	8	36
El Paso County	1 or 2	762
Fort Bend County	12	370
Goliad County	9	27
Harris County	16	4,571
Harrison County	26	193
Jackson County	14	54
Liberty County	12	225
Live Oak County	16	58
Marion County	7	42
Montgomery County	1 or 2	567
Nacogdoches County	41	146
Panola County	18	93
Polk County	42	151
Rusk County	1 or 2	155
San Jacinto County	27	92
Shelby County	7	74
Victoria County	37	136
Webb County	21	217
Wharton County	40	115

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 59 in Texas: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share on all roads of Texas
A driver recorded as drinkingof 432 fatal crashes	71	432 fatal crashes	16.4%	25.5%
A speeding-related driverof 432 fatal crashes	101	432 fatal crashes	23.4%	32.1%
Pedestriansof 517 deaths	65	517 deaths	12.6%	17.6%
Motorcyclistsof 517 deaths	30	517 deaths	5.8%	12.7%

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 2 Oct 2026.

Time of day

Table 4.US Route 59 in Texas: fatal crashes by time of day, 2015 to 2024
Time of day	Fatal crashes	Share	Share on all roads of Texas
Midnight to 6 a.m.	96	22.2%	24.6%
6 a.m. to noon	95	22.0%	18.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.	125	28.9%	23.4%
6 p.m. to midnight	116	26.9%	33.4%

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

Mile ranges

Table 5.US Route 59 in Texas: fatal crashes by range of five miles, 2015 to 2024
Milepoint	Fatal crashes
Mile 0 to 5	109
Mile 5 to 10	99
Mile 10 to 15	70
Mile 15 to 20	47
Mile 20 to 25	31
Mile 25 to 30	32

Note: the table has the six ranges of five miles with the largest counts, in the order of the milepoint. 97 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 Texas 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.

All routes in Texas

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.
Texas Traffic Safety SectionThe highway safety office of Texas.

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

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Source of the figures

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 31 Dec 2024. 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 59 in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 489 fatal crashes on US Route 59 in Texas from 2005 to 2014. It records 432 from 2015 to 2024.

What part of the fatal crashes in Texas was on US Route 59?

432 of the 35,785 fatal crashes in Texas from 2015 to 2024 were on US Route 59. That is 1.2 percent.

How many fatal crashes on US Route 59 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 71 of 432 fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024. It records a speeding-related driver in 101 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 59 in Texas only. The route in a different state has its own page.