{"id":278873,"date":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278873\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:45:13","slug":"plano-car-crashes-down-2-5-from-2024-to-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278873\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano car crashes down 2.5% from 2024 to 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTraffic crashes in Plano have decreased by 2.5% year to year from 2024 to 2025, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/1061\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The department provided an overview about the latest traffic data for the city at a joint meeting with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city of Plano<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pisd.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plano ISD<\/a> on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell<\/p>\n<p>The city had a crash rate of 17.89 crashes per 1,000 residents in 2025, according to Plano Police Department data. Plano Police Chief Ed Drain said the department determines the significance of a decrease in the city\u2019s crash rate based on the five previous years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether we\u2019re talking about crashes, whether we\u2019re talking about crime, those things can\u2019t go down every year,\u201d he said. \u201cWe actually do a five-year look back, and if we\u2019re within that medium, then we\u2019ve met our objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city saw a total of 5,356 traffic crashes in 2025, Drain said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777938313_817_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Learn more<\/p>\n<p>Drain said even though the Dallas North Tollway in Plano has a higher traffic volume, US 75 had more crash hot spots in 2025. Fatal crashes have decreased by 6.7% from 2024 to 2025, per the department\u2019s data, but injury crashes have increased by 3.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The Plano Police Department uses traffic safety data as one of four aspects to measure the department\u2019s performance. Other performance metrics include the city\u2019s crime rate, timely service and quality of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic crashes in Plano have decreased by 2.5% year to year from 2024 to 2025, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102883,19044,160,102881,102882,102880,162,161,99146,102879,1934,102878],"class_list":["post-278873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-2025-plano-crash-data","tag-city-of-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-car-accidents","tag-plano-crash-data","tag-plano-crashes","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-roads","tag-plano-traffic","tag-plano-police-department","tag-ppd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}