Correction — September 18, 2026: The earlier article treated feed-record counts as comparable county crash rates. Those rate claims have been removed. The original URL and publication record are retained.
| County | Fatal crashes | People killed |
|---|---|---|
| Nassau | 1148 | 1222 |
| Suffolk | 1951 | 2080 |
Suffolk and Nassau have different populations, travel distances and road networks. These counts do not establish a resident’s risk or a driver’s risk per mile. They describe where crashes occurred, not where the people involved lived.
Some records lack usable coordinates: 42 in Nassau and 97 in Suffolk. County totals retain those cases; smaller geographic maps cannot place them. Do not add overlapping town, village and census-place totals together.
How to read these records
The figures cover 2010–2024, not 2026. The downloaded 2024 files were labeled preliminary when retrieved on September 17, 2026. A fatal crash and a person killed are different units: a single crash can kill more than one person.
NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System records qualifying fatal traffic crashes. It does not provide a census of every injury, breakdown or lane closure. Our tables count distinct year-and-case identifiers and retain the reported fatalities.
The full road report and downloadable data explain county limits, road assignment and missing coordinates. These are historical counts, without a denominator for miles driven, trips or traffic volume. They cannot establish the safest route or the chance of a crash on a particular trip.
For present conditions, check 511NY and posted restrictions. Historical counts do not establish whether a road is open now.