Hey, what's happening? Scott Kuboff, a car crash lawyer from the law firm of Ibold & O'Brien. Sitting here in my home office and taking a look at the Ohio State Highway Patrol's crash dashboard. Really interesting, it is a whole bunch of statistics from 2017 to current - which is updated on Monday December 19th, 2022. So about five years of crash data and you can search by county.
For this video, I am looking at Lake County which is just north of Geauga County where our main office is in Chardon. But with Lake County, we're talking about folks from Willowick, Willoughby, Mentor, Painesville, and Concord.
Taking a look at that five-year period of time, 25,723 crashes – an awful lot of crashes, but we are talking about a very populated area with some major highways running through it. So where are most of the crashes occurring? Not necessarily the most serious crashes, just the highest number of crashes is US Route 20. So we're talking about again Willoughby, Mentor, and Painesville. Route 20 continues out into Ashtabula County. So that is where the highest number of crashes occurred with over 4,000 during that time.
Taking a look at what is the issue in terms of violations; speed is not surprising with over 2,900 crashes in Lake County during that time period being speed-related. So that is going too fast for the conditions, that is going too fast that you cannot stop in time, that's assured clear distance, or as most people know it “rear-enders.” But it looks like the #1 issue with over 3,800 crashes is failure to yield. Rolling through stop signs, pulling out into traffic when it is unsafe to do so, or making a left-hand turn in front of other vehicles when it's unsafe to do so. That is failure to yield.
Taking a look at when these crashes occur, same thing I've been saying all along it's between 6:00 AM and about 7:00 or 8:00 PM. But with Lake County the biggest time period in which crashes occur roughly about 19% of the time is between 4:00 and 6:00 PM, so it's that evening rush hour and far and away the largest number of crashes occur on Friday.
Taking a step back as I have done in all my other videos, let's talk about age-related crashes. So teen and youth-related crashes are right at about 13,000 of the 25,000 crashes in that five-year period. So very, very high number of crashes in younger drivers. Not too far behind with 11,000 crashes are elderly or mature-related drivers.
If you're interested in taking a look at the Ohio State Highway Patrol crash database just check the link below in the description you could search your county and get some pretty interesting information.
Crash Dashboard: https://statepatrol.ohio.gov/dashboards-statistics/ostats-dashboards/crash-dashboard