We can infer that the highest number of accidents is recorded in California; About 30% of the total accident records of the past five years in US are only from California. In the past five years, an average of 246 accidents (daily) happened in California implies approximately ten accidents per hour. Florida is the 2nd highest (10% cases) state for no. Road accidents in the US.
As California is a highly populated state in the USA, it is evident that there will be more accidents happening. So, we tried to divide the accidents by the population of each state and observed that Oregon recorded the highest number of accidents compared to California.
Accidents recorded across California along with San Diego and Los Angles County
Los Angeles has the second-highest no. of road accidents in the US (2016-2021). In the past five years (2016-2021) yearly, 46,824 road accidents (average) happened in Los Angeles. On average, in Los Angeles, five accidents occur every hour. San Diego has a significant less number of accidents when compared to Los Angeles.
We can infer that out of total accidents recorded in USA around 8% of the accidents are from Los Angles county. Also out of top 10 counties three counties from the California state. San Diego stands at 6th place with 1.6% of total accidents.
Miami has the highest number of accidents recorded with around 3.6% of the total records. Three of the top 10 cities are located in California.
These are the top 5 highways, as the street name in the data has different names for I-5N and I-5 south, similar for other highway as well so, we can visualize 3 o the map. By combining all the numbers of north and south we found that I-5 has the highest number accidents. Also, we found that there will be 100 fatal crashes per year and a huge number of accidents on this hight way from Annual Crash Data of California state highways.
92108 is one of the most accidents recorded zip code in San Diego.