Sacramento Car Crash Data and Map

Direct Answer: From September 27, 2025 through September 26, 2026, Sacramento recorded 6,021 reported car crashes in public records. This summary includes 4,509 people reported injured and 22 people reported killed. View the detailed patterns below or read the methodology.

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Sacramento

Latest 365 days, compared with other California cities that had at least 30 reported crashes in this window.

City results use the reporting jurisdiction and can span several postal-code areas.

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6,021 recorded crashes
All crash records in the reporting window in Sacramento, latest 365 days

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L marks a local road pair. F marks a freeway-linked road pair. These rings are reference callouts, separate from the blue/yellow/red crash dots.

F1
12th Ave / Sr-99
Rear End, historical peak near 5 PM
F2
Mack Rd / Sr-99
Rear End, historical peak near 8 AM
L1
Gateway Park Blvd / Truxel Rd
Broadside, historical peak near 7 AM · broader map context
For drivers

Leave extra following distance and expect sudden stops near busy approaches.

Sacramento also has a higher-than-statewide vulnerable-road-user share, so check carefully for people walking, cycling, or riding near crossings.

Based on historical reported crashes, not live traffic, road closures, or a prediction of tonight's conditions.
Crashes
6,021
More than 99% of peers
People injured
4,509
22 deaths reported
Severe share
3.9%
4.1% statewide
Walking, biking, or riding
9.6%
8.6% statewide
Who was involved

Crash contexts across all road users

A city crash story is not only about people inside cars. These groups count crashes where at least one matching party was recorded, using standardized vehicle types when available.

Groups overlap. A collision between a passenger vehicle and a bicyclist appears in both groups. Small electric mobility includes electric bicycles, electric scooters, motorboards, and motorized bicycles; motorcycles remain separate.

Passenger vehicles
Includes passenger cars, station wagons, Jeeps, minivans, SUVs, and pickups.
96.4% of reported crashes in this place
5,802
198 serious or fatal
Trucks, buses, and service vehicles
Includes trucks, tractors, buses, ambulances, fire trucks, and other recorded commercial vehicles.
7.2% of reported crashes in this place
433
11 serious or fatal
People walking
At least one pedestrian was recorded as a party.
4.1% of reported crashes in this place
245
55 serious or fatal
Bicycles and small electric mobility
Includes bicycles, electric bicycles, electric scooters, motorboards, and motorized bicycles.
3.6% of reported crashes in this place
218
31 serious or fatal
Motorcycles
Includes motorcycles and motor scooters; kept separate from bicycles and small electric mobility.
2.5% of reported crashes in this place
151
38 serious or fatal
Places to use extra care

Neighborhood streets and freeway corridors

These are repeated officer-recorded road pairs. Counts can cover more than one plotted position along the same pair of roads.

Most common story: Rear End
Hit-run share: 6.1%
Neighborhood streets
Local road pairs, kept separate so freeways cannot crowd them out.
01
Gateway Park Blvd / Truxel Rd
Broadside, peaks near 7 AM
Most repeated1 severe
17 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 17 OSM-inferred
17
crashes
02
24th St / Florin Rd
Rear End, peaks near 5 AM
Higher consequence1 killed1 vulnerable-user
11 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 11 OSM-inferred
11
crashes
03
29th St / Florin Rd
Broadside, peaks near 3 PM
Higher consequence1 killed3 vulnerable-user
9 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 9 OSM-inferred
9
crashes
Freeway approaches
Interchanges and highway-linked road pairs.
01
12th Ave / Sr-99
Rear End, peaks near 5 PM
Most repeated2 severe2 vulnerable-user27 hit-run
133 mapped records at 133 plotted positions
133
crashes
02
Mack Rd / Sr-99
Rear End, peaks near 8 AM
Higher consequence1 killed1 vulnerable-user9 hit-run
39 mapped records at 39 plotted positions
39
crashes
03
I-5 / Richards Blvd
Rear End, peaks near 3 PM
Higher consequence1 killed1 vulnerable-user4 hit-run
34 mapped records at 34 plotted positions
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34
crashes
How to read these results

Road names come from the officer's report and are normalized into pairs. A road-pair total does not mean every crash happened inside one physical intersection. Open a row to see its mapped records and positions.

Cite or reuse this profile

This is independent analysis of public records. Keep the reporting window, source, and methodology attached when reusing a figure.

Evidence for Zero. "Sacramento Car Crash Data and Map." Updated September 28, 2026. https://crashes.meruai.co/california/cities/sacramento. Analysis of California Crash Reporting System public records.
Read the methodology
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