How many people are hurt or killed in car crashes in Clark County? The official numbers

Last updated October 25, 2026.

The Nevada Office of Traffic Safety counts 235 people killed in traffic crashes in Clark County in 2025 and 296 in 2024, both preliminary, and 149 from January through September 2026 (186 in the same months of 2025). Its reports give serious injuries only statewide: 1,176 in 2024, in its September 2026 report. For a Las Vegas car accident claim, the numbers show the risk, but your own crash report proves what happened.

This page collects the official figures in one place: deaths in Clark County by year, who was killed, Nevada's serious injury totals, and the crash factors the state's reports name most often. It also explains where the numbers come from, because the same police report that feeds these datasets is the first document in your own claim. Riders have their own page on Clark County motorcycle crash data. Cyclists can read Clark County bicycle crash data.

How does a crash become an official number, step by step?

Each figure below starts with one crash on one road. The path from the scene to a statewide report runs through these steps.

An officer investigates and writes a report. If a police officer investigates a crash with bodily injury, a death, or apparent damage of $750 or more to any vehicle or property, the officer must prepare a report (NRS 484E.110(5)). In the valley that is usually the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Henderson or North Las Vegas police, or the Highway Patrol on the freeways. Our page on which agency handles your crash and how to get the report explains how to request it.
The report goes into a statewide system. The officer must submit it through the Department of Public Safety's electronic crash reporting system within 10 days after the crash, or after the date of death if a person later dies from the crash (NRS 484E.110(1)). The data goes into a central repository the Department of Public Safety keeps with the Department of Transportation to track crashes statewide (NRS 484E.110(2)).
Drivers may owe their own report. A driver in a crash with injury, death or $750 or more in apparent damage must send the DMV a report within 10 days, unless an officer investigated and the officer's report lists each person's insurer, policy number and coverage dates (NRS 484E.070(2), (3)). See when the SR-1 report is required.
The Office of Traffic Safety counts the deaths. It publishes a monthly State Fatal Report by county and road user, and a yearly report for the prior year. Recent figures are preliminary and may not yet include final reports, coroner findings or toxicology.
The federal database makes the count final. The state report says 2025 data is not final until the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) release in 2027. FARS, kept by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, counts deaths only.
The state studies five-year patterns. The June 2026 Nevada Traffic Safety Crash Facts report uses final FARS data for 2020 to 2024, and the 2026 to 2030 Strategic Highway Safety Plan uses the Nevada Department of Transportation's crash database for serious injuries.

Traffic deaths in Clark County, year by year

The table uses the latest year-end figure the Office of Traffic Safety published for each year. "Vehicle occupants" means drivers and passengers in a motor vehicle; the report says this column leaves out cases the officer marked as unknown. Totals for 2024 and 2025 are preliminary.

Year	All traffic deaths in Clark County	Vehicle occupants killed	Of those, unrestrained	Pedestrians killed
2019	185	95	33	51
2020	193	81	34	64
2021	236	103	33	65
2022	258	112	39	71
2023	258	111	41	83
2024 (preliminary)	296	120	36	97
2025 (preliminary)	235	82	34	81
January to September 2026	149 (186 in the same months of 2025)	48 (70)	20 (28)	54 (59)

Two patterns stand out. First, deaths in Clark County rose from 185 in 2019 to 296 in 2024, then fell to 235 in 2025, and 2026 is running lower again so far. Second, pedestrians are a large share of the people killed: 81 of the 235 deaths in 2025, about a third. In 2025, Clark County accounted for 235 of the 380 traffic deaths the state counted for all of Nevada. Our page on who is at fault when a car hits a pedestrian in Las Vegas covers those claims.

How many people are seriously hurt?

None of the state's yearly fatal reports gives a Clark County count of serious injuries. The statewide figures below are from the 10-year table in the Office of Traffic Safety's September 2026 report. Its April 2026 report listed 1,176 serious injuries for 2023 and none for 2024; the September report lists 1,070 for 2023 and 1,176 for 2024, so check the latest report before relying on either year.

Year	Traffic deaths in Nevada	Serious injuries in Nevada
2019	304	982
2020	333	964
2021	385	1,097
2022	416	1,130
2023	406	1,070
2024	420 (preliminary)	1,176
2025	380 (preliminary)	Not available in the report

For one group, the state does give a county figure. The Strategic Highway Safety Plan counts 1,065 fatal and serious injury crashes involving vulnerable road users (pedestrians, bicyclists and people on personal conveyances) in Clark County from 2019 to 2023: 370 fatal and 695 serious injury crashes, 80 percent of the statewide total.

What do the reports say is behind the deadly crashes?

The Crash Facts report sorts Nevada's 1,958 traffic deaths from 2020 to 2024 into "emphasis areas." One death can fall in several areas, for example an impaired driver at an intersection, so the shares add up to more than 100 percent. These are statewide figures; the report says Clark County had 1,154 of Nevada's 1,798 fatal crashes in those years, 64 percent.

Factor named in the report, Nevada, 2020 to 2024	Deaths	Share of all deaths	What the report says about Clark County
Impaired driving (a driver at 0.08 BAC or higher and/or testing positive for drugs)	888	45%	Highest number of fatal impaired driving crashes
Lane departure	785	40%	47% of fatal lane departure crashes
Intersection	645	33%	Highest number of fatal intersection crashes
Speeding-related	591	30%	Highest number of fatal speeding-related crashes
Pedestrian	461	24%	Highest number of fatal pedestrian crashes
Unrestrained occupant	395	20%	County breakdown shown in the yearly reports above
Distracted driving	42	2%	Not stated

The pedestrian figure is 461 in the report's pedestrian section and 462 in its summary chart. Looking at deaths and serious injuries together, the safety plan's 2019 to 2023 data ranks the areas a little differently: intersections 2,072, lane departures 1,866, impaired driving 1,703, occupant protection 1,669, safe speeds 1,306 and pedestrians 1,208, statewide.

The same report adds timing and crash type. Statewide from 2020 to 2024, 19 percent of fatal crashes happened between 6:00 and 8:59 p.m., and Friday through Sunday accounted for 49 percent. The most common crash type was a single vehicle striking a person on foot, on a bicycle or on a personal conveyance (26 percent of deaths), followed by single-vehicle crashes into fixed objects (24 percent) and angle crashes (21 percent).

Each of these factors has its own claim questions. Impairment by drugs as well as alcohol is covered in claims against a driver on marijuana or drugs. Intersection fault is covered in who had the right of way in a Nevada intersection crash.

What changes the answer

Preliminary versus final. The state's 2024 count is 420 deaths in its April 2026 report; the Crash Facts report, using final FARS data, counts 417. Small differences like this are normal as records arrive.
County versus state. The yearly death counts in the first table are for Clark County. The serious injury totals and most of the factor figures are statewide.
Categories overlap. One death can count as impaired, speeding-related and at an intersection at once, so the factor figures cannot be added together.
A hit-and-run. A crash where the driver leaves is still counted, but your claim depends on a prompt report for your own uninsured motorist coverage (NRS 690B.020(3)(f)). See what you can claim after a hit-and-run in Las Vegas.
Seat belts in a claim. The reports count unrestrained occupants, but in a civil case a seat belt violation may not be considered as negligence or as causation (NRS 484D.495(4)(b)). See whether an insurer can blame you for not wearing a seat belt.
Using the data in court. The Crash Facts report prints a federal notice, 23 U.S.C. section 409, saying that data compiled to plan safety improvements at specific locations may not be discovered or admitted as evidence in a damages case about a crash at those locations. The evidence from your own crash does the work.
Who caused your crash. Statistics never set fault. Nevada compares what each person did and reduces recovery by your own share, barring it if your share is greater (NRS 41.141).

For example: a family reads the numbers after a crash

Imagine a driver named Rosa, hit on a Saturday night when another car runs a red light at a busy intersection in unincorporated Clark County. She is hospitalized with a broken leg. Her son reads that Saturday evenings and intersections are high on the state's lists, and that impaired driving is behind nearly half of Nevada's traffic deaths. This is a hypothetical.

None of those numbers proves anything about Rosa's crash. What matters is the LVMPD report, the signal timing, any video, witness names and, if the other driver was tested, the blood or breath results. If the report shows the other driver ran the red, the time of night does not shift fault to Rosa.

The figures still help the family understand the adjuster's questions, which often focus on speed, lighting and seat belts. Rosa's son requests the report, keeps her medical records together and writes down the intersection, the time and the lighting. For the agencies and courts that serve the area, he reads our Clark County accident page.

Common mistakes when reading crash statistics

Treating a statewide figure as a county figure. Only the yearly death counts in the first table are for Clark County.
Comparing a preliminary count with a final one. A 2025 figure may change before the federal release in 2027.
Adding the factor percentages. They overlap, so they add up to well over 100 percent.
Reading "deaths" as "all crashes." The monthly and yearly reports count people killed. Most crashes injure people or damage cars without killing anyone.
Expecting the numbers to prove fault. They describe patterns across thousands of crashes, not what happened in yours.

What to do this week

If you or a family member was hurt, the statistics can wait. These steps protect the claim.

Find out which agency responded and request the crash report.
If no officer investigated, check whether you must file the DMV report within 10 days (NRS 484E.070(2)).
Write down the time, lighting, weather, signals and road as you remember them.
Save photos, video and the names of witnesses.
Keep every medical record and bill in one folder.
Check your own policy for uninsured, underinsured and medical payments coverage.
Mark the 2-year injury deadline on a calendar (NRS 11.190(4)(e)).

Frequently asked questions

Are traffic deaths going down in Clark County?

So far, yes. The state's September 2026 report counts 149 deaths in Clark County from January through September 2026, compared with 186 in the same months of 2025. The 2025 total of 235 was also below 2024's 296. All of these figures are preliminary.

How does Clark County compare with the rest of Nevada?

Clark County has most of the state's traffic deaths. The Crash Facts report puts 64 percent of Nevada's fatal crashes from 2020 to 2024 in Clark County, and the state counted 235 of Nevada's 380 deaths in 2025 there.

Does the state publish injury crash numbers for Clark County?

Not in the yearly fatal reports used here, which count deaths. The safety plan gives a county figure for crashes involving people walking or cycling, and statewide totals for serious injuries. The Department of Transportation's crash data page lists request forms and maps for more detailed data.

Can these statistics help prove my case?

Generally they explain risk rather than prove what happened. The federal notice printed in the Crash Facts report limits the use of location-based safety data in damages cases. Your report, photos, witnesses and medical records carry the claim.

Where can I check the numbers myself?

The Zero Fatalities Nevada data page posts the monthly and yearly State Fatal Reports, the Crash Facts report and the safety plan as PDFs, and links to the Nevada Fatal Crash Dashboard. Each report states its date and whether its figures are preliminary.

Is the police report I get the same one the state counts?

It comes from the same investigation. Officers submit their reports to the Department of Public Safety's statewide system (NRS 484E.110(1), (2)), and those reports are not privileged or confidential (NRS 484E.110(3)). A driver's own DMV report is different: it is confidential and generally may not be used as evidence at trial (NRS 484E.070(6), (7)).

Behind every number on this page is a person and a family. If you were hurt in a crash in Clark County, or lost someone in one, attorney Maysoun Fletcher can talk with you about what happened. Call 702-333-6339 for a free consultation; the phones are answered 24/7.