Sacramento Car Crash Data and Map

Direct Answer: From August 7, 2025 through August 6, 2026, Sacramento recorded 6,179 reported car crashes in public records. This summary includes 4,585 people reported injured and 21 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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6,179 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
I-5 / Sutterville Rd
Side Swipe, historical peak near 12 PM
L1
Bruceville Rd / Cosumnes River Blvd
Rear End, historical peak near 10 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
6,179
More than 99% of peers
People injured
4,585
21 deaths reported
Severe share
3.9%
4.1% statewide
Walking, biking, or riding
9.5%
8.7% 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.
96.2% of reported crashes in this place
5,947
205 serious or fatal
Trucks, buses, and service vehicles
Includes trucks, tractors, buses, ambulances, fire trucks, and other recorded commercial vehicles.
7.4% of reported crashes in this place
460
11 serious or fatal
People walking
At least one pedestrian was recorded as a party.
4.1% of reported crashes in this place
252
58 serious or fatal
Bicycles and small electric mobility
Includes bicycles, electric bicycles, electric scooters, motorboards, and motorized bicycles.
3.5% of reported crashes in this place
219
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
153
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: 6.0%
Neighborhood streets
Local road pairs, kept separate so freeways cannot crowd them out.
01
Bruceville Rd / Cosumnes River Blvd
Rear End, peaks near 10 AM
Most repeated15 injured2 vulnerable-user
19 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 19 OSM-inferred
19
crashes
02
24th St / Florin Rd
Rear End, peaks near 5 AM
Higher consequence1 killed2 vulnerable-user
12 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 12 OSM-inferred
12
crashes
03
29th St / Florin Rd
Broadside, peaks near 10 AM
Higher consequence1 killed2 vulnerable-user
10 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 10 OSM-inferred
10
crashes
Freeway approaches
Interchanges and highway-linked road pairs.
01
12th Ave / Sr-99
Rear End, peaks near 5 PM
Most repeated2 severe2 vulnerable-user22 hit-run
126 mapped records at 126 plotted positions
126
crashes
02
Mack Rd / Sr-99
Rear End, peaks near 8 AM
Higher consequence1 killed1 vulnerable-user9 hit-run
37 mapped records at 37 plotted positions
37
crashes
03
I-5 / Sutterville Rd
Side Swipe, peaks near 12 PM
Higher consequence1 killed7 hit-run
43 mapped records at 38 plotted positions
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43
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.

The Crash Data Project. "Sacramento Car Crash Data and Map." Updated August 7, 2026. https://crashes.meruai.co/california/cities/sacramento. Analysis of California Crash Reporting System public records.
Read the methodology
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