NYC Traffic Deaths by Road User
Aggregate statistics from the article “New York's road deaths have fallen for a generation, except on two wheels”
No synthetic records. Published or computed tabulations containing no person-level records.
- Records
- Aggregate statistics
- Place
- New York City
- Version
- 1.2.3,
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0; code MIT
- Built for
- New York's road deaths have fallen for a generation, except on two wheels (version 1.2.3)
New York's thirty-year fall in road deaths belongs to people on foot and in cars. Deaths on two wheels rose, to about 71 a year in the early 2020s.
The article's own data file, aggregate statistics cut to what it analyses, and the script that computes every figure in it. Computed from: NYPD CompStat citywide report, week of 5 to 11 October 2026; NYC DOT releases of 2 January and 1 July 2026; amNY's report of 2 October 2026; NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions, people killed and their vehicles, 2013 to 9 June 2026; NHTSA FARS, 1995-2024.
Files
| File | Rows | Size | What it holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| data.csv | 312 | 13 KB | The aggregate statistics the article's figures are computed from. |
| analysis.py | 47 KB | The script that computes every figure in the article (MIT). |
Columns
data.csv: The data (4 columns)
source, year, group, deaths. The article and its script
define each one.
Sources
- NYPD — CompStat citywide report, Volume 33 Number 41 (week of 5 to 11 October 2026), The report for the week to 11 October 2026, as archived on 13 October (the NYPD replaces it weekly at nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/crime-statistics/citywide-crime-stats.page); current-year figures preliminary
- NYC DOT — Vision Zero: traffic deaths reach all-time low in 2025 (press release), Published 2 January 2026; retrieved 7 October 2026
- NYC DOT — Vision Zero: pedestrian deaths at historic low; first half of 2026 among safest on record (press release), Published 1 July 2026; retrieved 7 October 2026
- amNY — Pedestrian traffic fatalities drop over first nine months of 2026 amid recent spate of deadly crashes: DOT, Published 2 October 2026; retrieved 7 October 2026
- NYPD — Motor Vehicle Collisions: Person, Vehicles and Crashes (NYC Open Data), Crashes to 9 June 2026 (the files have not been updated since mid-June); retrieved 26 September 2026, the vehicle records of the people killed on 11 October 2026
- NHTSA — Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national files 1995 to 2024, Final files for 1995 to 2023 and the Annual Report File for 2024, which NHTSA replaces with a final file about a year later; retrieved 7 October 2026
- NHTSA — Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794), April 2026; retrieved 7 October 2026
- City of New York — Vision Zero Action Plan (2014), Published 2014; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC DOT — Kickoff of 25 Days to 25 MPH Campaign (press release, 15 October 2014), Published 15 October 2014; retrieved 14 October 2026
- New York City Council — Council to vote on legalizing e-bikes and e-scooters (press release, 25 June 2020), Published 25 June 2020; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection — proposed minimum pay rate for app-based restaurant delivery workers (press release, 16 November 2022), Published 16 November 2022; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection — A Minimum Pay Rate for App-Based Restaurant Delivery Workers in NYC (Delivery Worker Study, November 2022), App data and a worker survey for the fourth quarter of 2021; published November 2022; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC DOT — Begins reducing speed limits in select locations following enactment of Sammy's Law (press release, 9 October 2024), Published 9 October 2024; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC Rules — Speed limits for e-bikes, e-scooters and pedal-assist commercial bicycles (notice of adoption and rule page), Adopted September 2025, effective 24 October 2025; retrieved 14 October 2026
- New York City Council — Council highlights proposed e-bike legislation ahead of major hearing (press release, 30 September 2026), Published 30 September 2026; retrieved 14 October 2026
- NYC DOT — Bike network and ridership (cycling statistics page), Daily cycling trips to 2023; retrieved 14 October 2026
Licence and credit
Data CC BY 4.0; the script MIT. Records we counted from government files stay under their publishers' terms. Public-use microdata are disclosure-protected records derived from survey responses, published by the issuing agency so that no respondent can be identified; synthetic records are generated by SparkyData and correspond to no real person, household or address. Neither may be used to identify anyone.
Credit it as:
SparkyData (2026). NYC Traffic Deaths by Road User (version 1.2.3). Data CC BY 4.0.
https://sparkydata.dev/data/nyc-traffic-deaths-by-road-userThe article gives the charts, the uncertainty of each comparison and a changelog. Corrections and questions: sparkytech.dev@gmail.com, or see corrections.