Transit & Streets Data retrieved 2026-07-16

Traffic deaths

Name: People killed in police-reported traffic crashes in NYC
Creator: New York City Police Department, via NYC Open Data

People killed in crashes on city streets each year, summed from the NYPD's own collision records.

229

people killed in traffic crashes in 2025

The lowest full year in the crash records, which begin in mid-2012. The worst years in the series, 297 deaths, were 2013 and 2021.

Source: Motor Vehicle Collisions - Crashes (annual aggregate of persons killed), New York City Police Department, via NYC Open Data. Retrieved 2026-07-16. Open data (NYC Open Data terms of use).

The numbers behind this chart

Year	People killed in police-reported traffic crashes in NYC
2013	297
2014	262
2015	243
2016	246
2017	256
2018	231
2019	244
2020	269
2021	297
2022	290
2023	280
2024	268
2025	229

The key years

2013 297 The year before Vision Zero launched, tied for the worst in the series.

2018 231 The pre-pandemic low.

2021 297 The pandemic-era spike, tied with 2013.

2025 229 The lowest full year on record.

What this counts

Every person killed in a motor-vehicle crash reported to the NYPD in the five boroughs: pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, drivers, and passengers. The total is summed from the department's crash-level open dataset, where each crash carries a count of persons killed.

What it does not say

This is the NYPD crash-record count. The city's official Vision Zero tallies are reconciled against other records and can differ from it by a few deaths in either direction.
The dataset starts in July 2012, so 2012 is not a full year and stays off the chart; the current year is off until it completes.
Records are revised as investigations close, so recent years can move slightly between downloads.

The questions New Yorkers actually ask

How many people die in traffic crashes in NYC each year?

229 people were killed in police-reported crashes in 2025, the lowest full year in records that begin in mid-2012. The series' worst years, 2013 and 2021, each saw 297 deaths.

Have traffic deaths fallen since Vision Zero began?

Vision Zero launched in 2014. Deaths went from 297 in 2013 to 229 in 2025 on this count, with a spike back to 297 in 2021 along the way.

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