New York City Crash Analysis · NYC Open Data · 2022–2024

Crashes, Boroughs & Dangerous Crossings

Where, when, and why traffic crashes happen across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, and 0 more boroughs — built from NYC Open Data statewide crash data.

64,047
Reported crashes (metro, 2024)
145
Traffic fatalities (metro, 2024)
7,413
Pedestrian crashes (metro, 2024)
3.7%
Speed-related rate (metro, 2024)
01 — Crash Map

Where It Happens

Search an address, filter by crash type, compare years, or enter your commute to see every crash hotspot along your route.

New York City Crash Map
65 intersections · 5 boroughs · NYC Open Data 2022–2024
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02 — Dangerous Intersections

The Top 10 Crash Sites

Ranked by total crash volume across New York City. Freeway interchanges dominate due to high traffic volumes — use the Per Vehicle toggle to normalize by traffic count.

Top 10 Crash Intersections — All Metro
NYC Open Data 2022–2024 · 65 locations tracked
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03 — Borough Overview

Crash Rates Across the Metro

How each borough in New York City compares on total crashes, fatalities, and behavioral factors.

Borough Comparison
All boroughs · NYC Open Data 2024
Overview
BoroughCrashesFatalDUISpeedPed
04 — When It Happens

The Calendar of Risk

Crash patterns by hour, day of week, and month across the metro.

Crashes by Hour
All Metro · NYC Open Data 2024
Crashes by Day of Week
All Metro · NYC Open Data 2024
Crashes by Month
All Metro · NYC Open Data 2024
05 — Year Over Year

Is the Metro Getting Safer?

Three years of NYC Open Data records show how crashes, fatalities, and behavioral factors are trending across New York City.

Total Crashes
Metro-wide · NYC Open Data 2022–2024
Fatalities & Pedestrian Crashes
Metro-wide · NYC Open Data 2022–2024
Behavioral Trends
DUI, speed, and hit-and-run crashes · 2022–2024
06 — Severity

How Bad Are the Crashes?

145 people died on New York City roads in 2024. The severity breakdown tells us how crashes distribute between fatal, serious, minor, and property-damage-only.

Severity Distribution
All Metro · NYC Open Data 2024
Fatalities by Borough
NYC Open Data 2024
Fatal
07 — Impaired Driving

DUI Crashes Across the Metro

Alcohol and drug involvement contributed to 1,438 crashes in 2024 across the five boroughs — 2.2% of the total. Late-night hours see the highest impairment rates.

DUI Rate by Hour
% of crashes involving DUI · All Metro
DUI by Borough
Total DUI crashes · NYC Open Data 2024
08 — Speed

Speed Kills Disproportionately

3.7% of crashes are speed-related. Bronx has the highest rate at 5.1%.

Speed Rate by Hour
% of crashes involving speed · All Metro
Speed’s Share of Fatalities
By borough · NYC Open Data 2024
Fatal
09 — Hit-and-Run

Hit-and-Run Data Unavailable

NYC Open Data does not include a hit-and-run flag. This section is unavailable for New York City.

10 — Pedestrians & Cyclists

The Most Vulnerable on Metro Streets

7413 pedestrian crashes and 4010 cyclist crashes across the metro in 2024.

Pedestrian Crashes by Borough
NYC Open Data 2024
7413
pedestrian crashes in 2024. Brooklyn accounts for 2,536 — 34% of the metro total despite having 31% of the population.
11 — Sources

Where This Data Comes From

NYC Open Data
Motor Vehicle Collisions dataset from NYPD, updated daily. 64,047 citywide crash records for 2024.

NYC Open Data →
NYC Vision Zero
New York City adopted Vision Zero in 2014 — the first major US city to do so. Fatalities dropped from 299 (2013) to 231 (2023).

Vision Zero →
NYPD Traffic Data
Crash reports filed via NYPD form MV-104AN for collisions involving injury, death, or property damage exceeding $1,000.

NYPD Traffic →
12 — Methodology

How I Built This

Data pipeline: Crash records queried from NYC Open Data Socrata API (dataset h9gi-nx95), paginated at 50,000 records per call. 64,047 citywide records for 2024. Coordinates are native WGS84 — no reprojection needed.
Borough assignment: NYC data includes a borough field directly. Records without a borough or coordinates are excluded (records without borough or coordinates excluded).
Behavioral flags: Impairment and speed derived from contributing factor fields (5 per crash). "Alcohol Involvement" and "Drugs (illegal)" map to impairment; "Unsafe Speed" maps to speed-related. Hit-and-run data is not available in this dataset.