What is CrashCount.nyc?

CrashCount.nyc tracks the relentless toll of traffic violence in New York City. We break the data down by neighborhood and political district—559 regions in total—so that advocates, political representatives, journalists, and everyday New Yorkers can speak plainly and fight smart.

This Is Not a Dashboard

This is not a dashboard. It is a record of systemic failure.
No spin. No excuses.

The Human Cost

Since January 1, 2022, there have been 382,384 crashes.

12,753 have had serious, life-altering injuries, amputations, crushed body-parts.

1,157 people are DEAD.

If a plane went down in Times Square every month, the city would shut the skies.
Instead, we let it happen again and again.

We Trace the Failures

Every single day, we update the facts and trace the failures—of policy, of politics, of enforcement—that keep this blood tide flowing.
We do not cover individual crashes.
We cover the slow‑motion catastrophe of traffic violence in the five boroughs.

We Count Relentlessly

CrashCount.nyc pulls from more than 20 sources: police crash records, legislative votes, agency data, and news reporting.

It watches. It remembers. It counts.

And it will keep counting until our streets are safe or the city can no longer look away.

Data Sources

Crash totals come from NYC Open Data. We rely on the Motor Vehicle Collisions tables (Crashes, Persons, Vehicles), which are built from MV-104AN police reports required when someone is injured or killed or when damage is $1,000 or more. These records are preliminary and can change; we refresh when NYPD updates the data. Because many minor crashes are never reported, these totals likely understate harm.

Other sources we ingest include:

• NYC Open Data for Motor Vehicle Collisions, speed camera tickets, DOT traffic speeds, and other agency datasets.
  • Motor Vehicle Collisions - Crashes: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes/h9gi-nx95/
  • Motor Vehicle Collisions - Persons: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Person/f55k-p6yu/
  • Motor Vehicle Collisions - Vehicles: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Vehicles/bm4k-52h4/
• NYC Council Legistar: https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/
• Open States (NY State legislation): https://openstates.org/
• MediaCloud (media mentions and coverage): https://mediacloud.org/
• RSS feeds and targeted scraping for full text when needed.
• NYC Geoclient (geocoding): https://developer.cityofnewyork.us/api/geoclient-api/
• Public boundary files for boroughs, precincts, community boards, NTAs, and state districts.

Full inventory and update cadence: CrashCount.nyc Data Sources

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Who Is CrashCount.nyc?

CrashCount.nyc is an independent, data-driven watchdog.

We are a small team of New Yorkers who built this project because traffic violence is treated as noise instead of policy failure.

• We do not lobby.
• We do not endorse candidates.
• We do not take corporate money.

We collect and publish the record: every crash, every injury, every death, so it cannot be ignored, minimized, or forgotten.

Questions or tips: hello@crashcount.nyc