{"id":302347,"date":"2026-06-10T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302347\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:24:13","slug":"this-is-floridas-deadliest-area-for-car-crashes-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302347\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Florida\u2019s deadliest area for car crashes, data reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 State officials have revealed the latest data showing which parts of Florida were most affected by fatal car crashes in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/traffic-crash-reports\/crash-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flhsmv.gov\/traffic-crash-reports\/crash-dashboard\/\">According to state data<\/a>, there were over 358,000 crashes statewide last year \u2014 a figure that has been steadily dropping since 2021 \u2014 with nearly 3,000 of those crashes being fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">While state data shows that Miami-Dade County saw the greatest number of fatal crashes in 2025 (259 in total), it was far from the deadliest overall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">When factoring in population size, the deadliest turned out to be Hamilton County, which saw a greater ratio of crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">In fact, the 10 deadliest Florida counties for car crashes last year were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Deadliest RankCountyFatal CrashesNumber of fatal crashes per 10K residents1Hamilton139.442Lafayette78.533Glades75.514Suwannee224.795Levy194.136Dixie74.017Columbia293.988Gadsden173.819Franklin53.7810Jefferson53.20<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Central Florida didn\u2019t manage to break the top 10 for deadliest counties this time around. The closest was Marion County, with roughly 1.89 fatal crashes per 10,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">However, one Central Florida county actually ranked as the safest area of the state: Seminole County.<\/p>\n<p>Safest RankCountyFatal CrashesNumber of fatal crashes per 10K residents1Seminole280.572Collier270.663Sarasota340.724Leon220.725Santa Rosa170.816Pinellas890.917Manatee420.928Miami-Dade2590.939Clay220.9310Palm Beach1450.93<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">For Central Florida alone, the data breaks down as follows:<\/p>\n<p>BREVARD COUNTY \u2014 43rd deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>FLAGLER COUNTY \u2014 42nd deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>LAKE COUNTY \u2014 31st deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>MARION COUNTY \u2014 26th deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>ORANGE COUNTY \u2014 53rd deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>OSCEOLA COUNTY \u2014 51st deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>POLK COUNTY \u2014 49th deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>SEMINOLE COUNTY \u2014 Safest statewide<\/p>\n<p>SUMTER COUNTY \u2014 30th deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p>VOLUSIA COUNTY \u2014 32nd deadliest statewide<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">*County population estimates taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhealthcharts.gov\/FLQuery_New\/Population\/Count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flhealthcharts.gov\/FLQuery_New\/Population\/Count\">2024 FLDOH data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013 State officials have revealed the latest data showing which parts of Florida were most affected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,1776,4717,28,30,29,785,2174,3833,1335,1976,1911,1014,3315,729,2261],"class_list":["post-302347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brevard-county","tag-crash","tag-flagler-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-ranked","tag-lake-county","tag-marion-county","tag-orange-county","tag-osceola-county","tag-polk-county","tag-seminole-county","tag-sumter-county","tag-traffic","tag-volusia-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}