Hey, what's happening? Scott Kuboff, a car crash lawyer with the law firm of Ibold & O'Brien. I’m just sitting here in my home office and taking a look at the Ohio State Highway Patrol’s crash database for Ashtabula County. We do an awful lot of work in Ashtabula County as it is very close to our main office in Chardon. We do have a satellite office in Orwell, so if you are in the Ashtabula County area, we are near you.
Anyhow, if you've been watching some of my other videos about the crash database you know that it is from 2017 to December 19, 2022. This information is up-to-date. Taking a look during that time, 11,279 crashes in Ashtabula County. The road with the most number of crashes, not necessarily the most serious crashes, but the most number of crashes is US Route 20. So we're talking about folks going through Madison, Geneva, Ashtabula, and all the way through Conneaut. That is the road that far and away has the most crashes. Coming in at #2 is Interstate Route 90.
Taking a look in terms of what are the issues in Ashtabula County, the #1 reason, and this has been #2 in several other counties we talked about, but in Ashtabula County, it looks like the #1 issue is speed. So we're talking about going too fast on the highway, we're talking about being unable to stop in time on US 20, assured clear distance, and “rear-enders” as most people call them. The #2 issue in Ashtabula County in terms of traffic violations is failure to yield. So rolling through stop signs, pulling out into traffic when it's unsafe to do so.
Going through the difference between ages; mature-related accounts for roughly 39%. The teen and the youth-related are not too far behind. Taking a look at when these crashes occur, anybody that's been watching these videos comes as no surprise, it is during the times that folks are awake 6:00 AM to about 8:00 PM and it looks like in Ashtabula County the most significant time period where these crashes occur is between 2:00 and 7:00 PM. It's also not a surprise now that I've done several of these videos but, Friday is the day that most crashes occur.
If you're interested in taking a look at the Ashtabula County crash statistics go into the description below I will link to it you can click through and take a look for yourself.
Crash Dashboard: https://statepatrol.ohio.gov/dashboards-statistics/ostats-dashboards/crash-dashboard