Official 2024 Traffic Crash Data Released
Another Bad Year for Ann Arbor Pedestrians
In Ann Arbor:
- Pedestrian Crash Rate in 2024 (1) Remains Unchanged From 2023 (2)
- Pedestrian Crashes in 2025 Have Already Exceeded 2024
- Bicycle Crashes Decline Again in 2024
- No Serious or Fatal Bicycle Crashes So Far In 2025
Traffic crash data from 2024 has been released on the Michigan Traffic Crash Facts website, which annually publishes official crash data from the state of Michigan.
Michigan Traffic Crash Facts reports 11 serious injury crashes and 1 fatal crash involving pedestrians in 2024. This is the same as in 2023.
Crashes In Ann Arbor has collected AAPD police reports for 2 fatalities and 11 serious injuries sustained by pedestrians in traffic crashes so far in 2025. There are still three months left in 2025, and already more pedestrians in Ann Arbor have been seriously injured or killed by traffic crashes than in any full year since 2014.
The number of serious and fatal pedestrian traffic crashes on the non-interstate highways and streets of Ann Arbor from 2004 to 2025. Data source for 2004 to 2024 is www.michigantrafficcrashfacts.org (3). *2025 data is based on AAPD crash reports (5).
In 2024, traffic crashes on Ann Arbor streets involving cyclists dropped to 3 serious injuries, down from 4 in 2023.
So far in 2025, Crashes In Ann Arbor has received no reports of traffic crashes that resulted in serious or fatal injuries for cyclists in Ann Arbor. The June City Administrator’s Report did include details of a single person bicycle crash resulting in a serious injury.
The number of serious and fatal bicycle traffic crashes on the non-interstate highways and streets of Ann Arbor from 2004 to 2025. Data source for 2004 to 2024 is www.michigantrafficcrashfacts.org (4). *No serious or fatal traffic crashes involving cyclists have been reported by AAPD so far in 2025.
Four ways to advocate for safer streets
- A third draft of Ann Arbor’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan will be released on October 7th. Write to City Council or the Planning Commission or attend a meeting in person. Tell them that you want land use policies that allow people to live closer to work, school and other destinations, giving them the choice to walk, bike, or take transit instead.
- Attend one of the city’s outreach events about Ann Arbor’s Safe Streets For All project and share your opinion on the quick-build project proposals. The next event is October 7 at the Mallet’s Creek library branch. Tell them that streets will not be safe enough to achieve the city’s Vision Zero goal until vehicle traffic is slowed below lethal speeds wherever it crosses paths with pedestrians and cyclists.
- Ann Arbor is studying lane reconfigurations on 10 multi-lane streets throughout the city with the Ann Arbor Roadway Rightsizing Project. Attend an open house at AADL on November 19th and write to City Council. Tell them that you want streets to be reconfigured with fewer, narrower car lanes. Wider streets with more car lanes endanger crossing pedestrians by encouraging faster speeds, requiring long crossing distances or by exposing them to double threat scenarios where one lane of traffic stops but the other does not.
- In 2024, Ann Arbor studied the process for transferring MDOT trunk lines to city control, and negotiations are ongoing. Write to City Council and tell them that too many crashes happen on MDOT roads, and we need to take control and remake them to reflect Ann Arbor’s values.
Crashes In Ann Arbor collects information about serious and fatal crashes involving vulnerable roadway users like pedestrians, cyclists and scooter riders. You can find more details in the Crash List. Content of crashesinannarbor.org is subject to copyright protection. Text and images may be reproduced but must be attributed to crashesinannarbor.org.
End Notes:
- In the report of one of the 2024 crashes involving a pedestrian, the driver’s injury is categorized as serious, while the pedestrian’s is minor. Taking this unusual report at face value, the number of pedestrian injuries would then total 10 serious and 1 fatal for 2024, an improvement of 1 crash compared to 2023. However, this is likely a coding error and is therefore included in the count of serious injury crashes involving a pedestrian. Even if the coding of this crash is accurate, a single-year reduction of 1 is not a significant positive change.
- In the report of one of the 12 crashes of 2023, the injured e-scooter rider’s unit type was coded “P” (pedestrian). According to Michigan’s Crash Reporting Manual, the unit type should have been “MV” (motor vehicle). Other recent e-scooter crashes in Ann Arbor that resulted in serious injury and fatality have been coded MV and are therefore not included in the above chart of crashes involving a pedestrian. The numbers in the chart reflect the coding of these individual crashes.
- The query of the Michigan Traffic Crash Facts system that generated the 2004-2024 values for the pedestrian chart is: Crashes for the Years 2024 and 2023 and 2022 and 2021 and 2020 and 2019 and 2018 and 2017 and 2016 and 2015 and 2014 and 2013 and 2012 and 2011 and 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and 2007 and 2006 and 2005 and 2004 for City or Township (Washtenaw County: Univ. of Mich. Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County: Ann Arbor) filtered by Highway Class (US Route or Michigan Route or Interstate Business Loop or Spur or US Business Route or Michigan Business Route or Connector or Service Drive or County Road, City Street, or Unknown or Uncoded & Errors) and Worst Injury in Crash (Fatal Injury (K) or Suspected Serious Injury (A)) and Crash: Pedestrian (Pedestrian Involved)
- The query of the Michigan Traffic Crash Facts system that generated the 2004-2024 values for the bicycle chart is: Crashes for the Years 2024 and 2023 and 2022 and 2021 and 2020 and 2019 and 2018 and 2017 and 2016 and 2015 and 2014 and 2013 and 2012 and 2011 and 2010 and 2009 and 2008 and 2007 and 2006 and 2005 and 2004 for City or Township (Washtenaw County: Ann Arbor) filtered by Worst Injury in Crash (Fatal Injury (K) or Suspected Serious Injury (A)) and Crash: Bicyclist (Bicyclist Involved) and Highway Class (US Route or Michigan Route or Interstate Business Loop or Spur or US Business Route or Michigan Business Route or Connector or Service Drive or County Road, City Street, or Unknown or Uncoded & Errors)
- A tragic incident in the Pauline construction zone in April, 2025 killed a truck driver who was in the process of reconnecting his trailer. Crashes In Ann Arbor has chosen not to categorize this as a traffic crash and it is not reflected in the pedestrian crash chart.
Download the crash reports for Ann Arbor’s pedestrian crashes so far in 2025 (as of 10/2/2025).
Note: this post was updated on 10/3/2025 to include a 5th end note. The content of the post and the values in the charts remain the same.
Note: The report of a 14th serious pedestrian crash in 2025 was shared with CIAA after this post was published. The download of crash reports (above) was updated on October 11 to include this incident. The content of the post and the values in the charts remain the same.