Seattle Crash Analysis · SDOT · 2022–2024

Crashes, Neighborhoods & Dangerous Streets

Where, when, and why traffic crashes happen across Downtown, Capitol Hill, University District, Ballard, and 8 more neighborhoods — built from SDOT crash records.

6,371
Reported crashes (metro, 2024)
28
Traffic fatalities (metro, 2024)
381
Pedestrian crashes (metro, 2024)
5.7%
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.

Seattle Crash Map
65 intersections · 12 neighborhoods · SDOT 2022–2024
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02 — Look Up Your Street

How Safe Is Your Area?

Search any address or intersection to see a crash summary for that location. SDOT 2022–2024.

RADIUS
03 — Dangerous Intersections

The Top 10 Crash Sites

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

Top 10 Crash Intersections — All Metro
SDOT 2022–2024 · 65 locations tracked
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04 — Neighborhood Overview

Crash Rates Across the Metro

How each neighborhood in Seattle compares on total crashes, fatalities, and behavioral factors.

Neighborhood Comparison
All neighborhoods · SDOT 2024
Overview
NeighborhoodCrashesFatalSpeedPed
Crashes Per 1,000 Residents
Population-adjusted crash rate · SDOT 2024
05 — When It Happens

The Calendar of Risk

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

Crashes by Hour
All Metro · SDOT 2024
Crashes by Day of Week
All Metro · SDOT 2024
Crashes by Month
All Metro · SDOT 2024
Weekday vs Weekend by Hour
All Metro · SDOT 2024
06 — Year Over Year

Is the Metro Getting Safer?

Three years of SDOT records show how crashes, fatalities, and behavioral factors are trending across Seattle.

Total Crashes
Metro-wide · SDOT 2022–2024
Fatalities & Pedestrian Crashes
Metro-wide · SDOT 2022–2024
Speed-Related
2022–2024
07 — Severity

How Bad Are the Crashes?

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

Severity Distribution
All Metro · SDOT 2024
Fatalities by Neighborhood
SDOT 2024
Fatal
Crash Type Breakdown
All Metro · SDOT 2024
Contributing Factors
All Metro · SDOT 2024
09 — Speed

Speed Kills Disproportionately

5.7% of crashes are speed-related. West Seattle has the highest rate at 9.5%.

Speed Rate by Hour
% of crashes involving speed · All Metro
Speed's Share of Fatalities
By neighborhood · SDOT 2024
Fatal
11 — Pedestrians & Cyclists

The Most Vulnerable on Metro Streets

381 pedestrian crashes and 267 cyclist crashes across the metro in 2024.

Pedestrian Crashes by Neighborhood
SDOT · SDOT 2024
381 pedestrian crashes in 2024. Downtown accounts for 92 — 24% of the metro total despite having 13% of the population.
12 — Vision Zero Seattle

Vision Zero Seattle: Progress Toward Zero

Seattle adopted Vision Zero Seattle in 2015, setting a target of 0 traffic fatalities by 2030. The baseline was 20 fatalities in 2015.

Fatalities: Goal vs. Actual
2022–2030
13 — Sources

Where This Data Comes From

SDOT Collisions
Seattle Department of Transportation publishes all collision records through an ArcGIS FeatureServer. 6,371 injury and property-damage crashes in 2024, each geocoded with coordinates, severity, and behavioral flags.

SDOT Collisions Dataset
14 — Methodology

How I Built This

Raw SDOT collision records are queried from the ArcGIS FeatureServer for each year. Coordinates are requested in WGS84 (outSR=4326). Records without valid coordinates are excluded. Neighborhoods are assigned via coordinate bounding boxes. Crash types are derived from SDOT collision descriptions. 6,371 records processed for 2024.