Over a thousand people move to Texas every day. We have nearly 200,000 miles of roadway. Texas has also spent $2 billion from 2015 to 2022 to make our roadways safer. Texas also has a “Road to Zero” goal which is zero fatalities on Texas roads by 2050.
So how are we doing?
Texas Crash Data
Ever wonder what happens to crash reports after an accident? Where do they go from your local police department? The data from these reports, whether filed by police or self-reporting blue forms that are submitted to the police, gets compiled into a database by the Texas Department of Transportation (“TXDOT”).
CRIS is an extensive database maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation. It contains data compiled from all of the crash reports filed in Texas. As such it is an exhaustive database from which useful information can be mind. In this post we will share our findings after doing just that. You’ll also find information in this post you won’t find anywhere else. For example, it is easy to track the increase (or decrease) in accidents based on crash type, but the information tells a much more useful story when you combine it with other sources of information – such as data on population growth in Texas over the same period.
So without further ado, let’s jump right into a comparison of the 2022 data against the most recent complete year, 2023.
