The public dashboards, “allow users to get better insight into crash data for their area or agency,” the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s online user guide states.
The interactive map allows users to see how many crashes occurred in their county, severity of the crash, type of crash, the hour of the crash and day of the crash.
For users to see the street-by-street view, they must select the “crashes by severity” map option.
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“Crashes are mapped to the best of our ability,” the user guide states. “Some crashes come in with a bad latitude/longitude from agencies and are mapped with other methods or are hand located.”
For this year through Friday afternoon, Clark County has had 2,543 crashes and Montgomery County has had 10,210 crashes out of 220,532 crashes recorded in Ohio, according to the interactive map.
Most of the Clark County crashes happened between 3 and 3:59 p.m. and most of the Montgomery County crashes happened between 5 and 5:59 p.m.
Both counties had the most crashes on Fridays, followed by Thursdays.
The database classifies the crashes into 10 categories: commercial, deer, distracted, mature, motorcycle, OVI, pedestrian, speed, unbelted, or youth-related.
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The most common type of crash in both counties are mature-related crashes, involving a driver 55 years or older, the user guide explained. In Clark County, 874 of the crashes are classified as mature-related while 3,650 of the Montgomery County crashes received this classification.
The second most common crash type for both counties is youth-related crashes, involving a driver between 15 and 24 years old, the user guide explained. Clark County has had 688 youth-related crashes and Montgomery County has had 3,032 youth-related crashes.
Overall, there has been three fatal crashes in Clark County - one in May, July, and September. In Montgomery County, there has been 32 fatal crashes with January and September each having six fatal crashes, the highest monthly number of fatal crashes in Montgomery County for 2019 . In both counties, most crashes had property damage only.
To use the interactive map, visit www.statepatrol.ohio.gov/ostats.aspx
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