San Diego Car Crash Data and Map

Direct Answer: From August 7, 2025 through August 6, 2026, San Diego recorded 8,398 reported car crashes in public records. This summary includes 7,561 people reported injured and 52 people reported killed. View the detailed patterns below or read the methodology.

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San Diego

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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8,398 recorded crashes

All crash records in the reporting window in San Diego, latest 365 days

This is the complete historical count for the selected reporting window. The map shows a capped sample of records with usable coordinates. Choose a specific time when you want to compare one part of the day with the full record.

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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.

I-8 / Sr-163

Rear End, historical peak near 1 PM

Palm Ave / Saturn Blvd

Rear End, historical peak near 5 AM

For drivers

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

San Diego 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

8,398

More than 100% of peers

People injured

7,561

52 deaths reported

Severe share

4.5%

4.1% statewide

Walking, biking, or riding

17.5%

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.

91.4% of reported crashes in this place

7,672

301 serious or fatal

Motorcycles

Includes motorcycles and motor scooters; kept separate from bicycles and small electric mobility.

7.3% of reported crashes in this place

610

96 serious or fatal

People walking

At least one pedestrian was recorded as a party.

6.3% of reported crashes in this place

531

81 serious or fatal

Trucks, buses, and service vehicles

Includes trucks, tractors, buses, ambulances, fire trucks, and other recorded commercial vehicles.

4.9% of reported crashes in this place

410

9 serious or fatal

Bicycles and small electric mobility

Includes bicycles, electric bicycles, electric scooters, motorboards, and motorized bicycles.

4.8% of reported crashes in this place

403

42 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: 8.7%

Neighborhood streets

Local road pairs, kept separate so freeways cannot crowd them out.

Palm Ave / Saturn Blvd

Rear End, peaks near 5 AM

Most repeated11 injured1 vulnerable-user

9 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 9 OSM-inferred

crashes

Poway Rd / Sabre Springs Pkwy

Broadside, peaks near 1 PM

Higher consequence2 killed1 vulnerable-user

5 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 5 OSM-inferred

crashes

Genesee Ave / La Jolla Village Dr

Broadside, peaks near 6 PM

Higher consequence1 killed1 vulnerable-user

4 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 4 OSM-inferred

crashes

Freeway approaches

Interchanges and highway-linked road pairs.

I-8 / Sr-163

Rear End, peaks near 1 PM

Most repeated12 injured2 vulnerable-user6 hit-run

30 mapped records at 30 plotted positions

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crashes

Interstate 8 Eastbound / Interstate 8 Westbound From Fairmount Ave North

Side Swipe, peaks near 10 PM

Higher consequence2 killed1 vulnerable-user

3 mapped records at 3 plotted positions

crashes

Anna Ave / Pacific Hwy

Vehicle/Pedestrain, peaks near 4 AM

Higher consequence1 killed2 vulnerable-user

2 mapped records at 1 plotted position, 2 OSM-inferred

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. "San Diego Car Crash Data and Map." Updated August 7, 2026. https://crashes.meruai.co/california/cities/san-diego. Analysis of California Crash Reporting System public records.

Read the methodology

Download generated 1 summary file. Source records may be revised after publication.