Arizona Crash Facts 2024: What ADOT's Statewide Data Shows

Arizona's official statewide crash report for 2024 shows a second consecutive year of declining traffic deaths — but the numbers remain close to the highest levels the state has ever recorded.

The figures below come from the Arizona Department of Transportation's annual Motor Vehicle Crash Facts report, which ADOT compiles from traffic crash reports submitted by law enforcement agencies across the state. It covers every type of Arizona roadway: city streets, county roads, tribal roads, and state highways.

The headline numbers

• 1,228 people died in traffic crashes on Arizona roads in 2024 — a 6.12% decrease from 2023, and the second annual decline in a row.
• 121,107 total crashes were reported statewide, down from 123,256 in 2023 (a 1.74% decrease).

Even with two straight years of improvement, ADOT notes that fatalities remain near all-time historical highs. Averaged across the year, 2024's toll works out to more than three deaths on Arizona roads every day.

Alcohol remained a factor in more than a quarter of fatal crashes

• Alcohol-related crashes accounted for 27.93% of all fatal crashes in 2024.
• Alcohol-related deaths fell from 358 in 2023 to 347 in 2024 — a 3.07% decrease — and represented 28.26% of all traffic fatalities.
• Male drivers were involved in 71.08% of alcohol-related crashes, and drivers ages 25–34 accounted for 31.40% of the drivers involved.
• 2,407 alcohol-related crashes — 43.6% of the total — happened on nights and weekends.

Speed was tied to a third of all deaths

Speed too fast for conditions, or above the lawful limit, was reported in crashes that caused 417 deaths and 20,722 injuries in 2024 — 33.9% of all traffic fatalities and 38% of all injuries statewide.

Pedestrian and bicyclist crashes hit five-year highs

Fewer pedestrians were killed in 2024 than in 2023, and bicyclist deaths held steady. But total crash counts moved the other direction: 2,079 pedestrian crashes and 1,379 bicyclist crashes were reported in 2024 — the highest counts recorded in the last five years, according to the report.

Other findings from the 2024 report

• Motorcyclists: 219 riders died in 2024, a 16.4% decrease from 262 in 2023.
• Seatbelts and helmets: deaths tied to failure to use a safety device fell from 381 in 2023 to 340 in 2024; related injuries fell from 3,292 to 3,088.
• Distracted driving: at least 8,289 drivers involved in 2024 collisions were engaged in some form of distraction — a figure the report treats as a likely undercount, since drivers may not admit distraction and some distracted drivers did not survive the crash.
• Where the deaths happened: more people died on local roads (775) than on the state highway system (453), and more died in urban areas (781) than rural areas (447).

About this data

All figures on this page are drawn from the 2024 Arizona Motor Vehicle Crash Facts report published by the Arizona Department of Transportation in July 2025. ADOT compiles the report from Arizona Traffic Crash Reports submitted by state, county, city, tribal, and other law enforcement agencies, and notes that preliminary data is used where necessary, so figures can shift slightly between report editions. The full report is available directly from ADOT at the source link on this page.

Last reviewed: August 2026.