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Ohio fatal crashes in 2000

FARS records 1,366 deaths in 1,244 fatal crashes in Ohio in 2000.

In 1999 it records 1,430 deaths in 1,284 fatal crashes.

In 2000 the rate is 12.0 deaths for each 100,000 residents in Ohio and 14.9 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2000, Ohio was number 39 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in Ohio fell by 4.5% from 1999 to 2000. In the United States they rose by 0.5%.

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 site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Release dates

2000 beside 1999

Table 1.Ohio in 2000, in 1999 and the United States in 2000
FigureOhio, 2000Ohio, 1999United States, 2000
Deaths1,3661,43041,945
Fatal crashes1,2441,28437,526
Deaths for each 100,000 residents12.0n/a14.9
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/an/an/a

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. NHTSA's definitions

NHTSA says that its count of drinking drivers is unreliable for 1977, 1981 and 1999 to 2007, because it was derived in a wrong way. This site gives no count for these years.

For the years before 2015 the count is from the FARS element DRUNK_DR. It counts a blood alcohol concentration of .01 g/dL or more. From 2015 the count is from DR_DRINK and counts .001 g/dL or more.

Counties in 2000

Table 2.Ohio: counties with a fatal crash in 2000, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County98
Allen County1111
Ashland County1211
Ashtabula County1717
Athens County109
Auglaize County65
Belmont County33
Brown County77
Butler County2523
Carroll County43
Champaign County76
Clark County1816
Clermont County1817
Clinton County1612
Columbiana County1715
Coshocton County1514
Crawford County1913
Cuyahoga County7162
Darke County1714
Defiance County54
Delaware County1312
Erie County1414
Fairfield County1615
Fayette County74
Franklin County7574
Fulton County1614
Gallia County1110
Geauga County1917
Greene County2928
Guernsey County55
Hamilton County6260
Hancock County1010
Hardin County77
Harrison County1 or 21 or 2
Henry County1312
Highland County54
Hocking County98
Holmes County1010
Huron County88
Jackson County76
Jefferson County55
Knox County98
Lake County1413
Lawrence County88
Licking County1515
Logan County65
Lorain County2120
Lucas County4541
Madison County77
Mahoning County2828
Marion County1312
Medina County2220
Meigs County33
Mercer County129
Miami County1515
Monroe County51 or 2
Montgomery County6865
Morgan County33
Morrow County139
Muskingum County1212
Noble County1 or 21 or 2
Ottawa County66
Paulding County77
Perry County65
Pickaway County1411
Pike County98
Portage County2521
Preble County1412
Putnam County55
Richland County99
Ross County1515
Sandusky County109
Scioto County1010
Seneca County109
Shelby County55
Stark County4137
Summit County3634
Trumbull County4137
Tuscarawas County1918
Union County1210
Van Wert County55
Vinton County1 or 21 or 2
Warren County1513
Washington County106
Wayne County2418
Williams County66
Wood County2726
Wyandot County139

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2000 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Ohio: fatal crashes by time of day, 2000
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.26421.3%
6 a.m. to noon21717.5%
Noon to 6 p.m.41333.3%
6 p.m. to midnight34728.0%
Table 4.Ohio: fatal crashes by weekday, 2000
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday19415.6%
Monday15212.2%
Tuesday16012.9%
Wednesday17914.4%
Thursday15612.5%
Friday19315.5%
Saturday21016.9%

Note: the tables have the fatal crashes with a known hour or weekday.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Ohio fatal crashes in 2000. https://fatalroads.com/state/ohio/2000/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 2000. This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Data to .

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Questions

Which file does the 2000 page use?

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 2000 was in Ohio?

Ohio had 1,366 of the 41,945 deaths in the United States in 2000. That is 3.3 percent.

In how many counties of Ohio did FARS record a fatal crash in 2000?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 88 counties of Ohio in 2000.