Hey, what's happening? Scott Kuboff, a car crash lawyer with the law firm of Ibold & O'Brien. I am sitting here in my home office, in Portage County, and I am taking a look at the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s crash dashboard. It sets forth statistics for car crashes in the State of Ohio from 2017 through December 19, 2022. Although this video is going to be posted after that, it is still up to date and current.
Just going through and taking a look during that time period, Portage County had about 20,000 crashes; actually 20,759 to be exact. So a lot of crashes in Portage County. Taking a look at the street where the most crashes occur, not necessarily the most serious crashes, just the highest number of crashes is State Route 43. So we're talking about folks in Aurora, Streetsboro and down into Kent.
Taking a look at what is the most likely cause of the crash, in terms of human-related issues, seeing speed #2 with 2,900 speed-related crashes. So typically speed related crashes are usually assured clear distance, people rear ending folks, going too fast to be able to stop. Ahead of that is failure to yield. So that is people that are pulling out from shopping centers in front of other cars that are already on the roadway or not stopping at stop signs and rolling through those. Failing to yield the right of way.
It looks like about 7,000 crashes are mature-related; so elderly individuals but youth related tops it out with over 8,200 youth related crashes.
Taking a look in terms of when these crashes occur, it's during the time where everybody's up, right: 6:00 AM to about 7:00 PM is where the highest number of crashes occur. The most significant times in Portage County looks to be from 3:00 PM - so right when school gets out - to about 6:00 PM that is where the highest volume of crashes occur. Friday is the runaway winner in terms of the day that has the most crashes. So let's be safe out there.
I will link the database in the description below so you could take a look at Portage County crash statistics.
https://statepatrol.ohio.gov/dashboards-statistics/ostats-dashboards/crash-dashboard