Riverside County crash data

Official crash statistics can answer questions that come up after a collision: how common a type of crash is in your city, whether deaths and serious injuries are rising, and which roads carry the most serious crashes. They cannot tell you who was at fault in your crash. This section collects the published figures for Riverside County from state, regional, county and city agencies, each linked to its source and labeled with the year or period it covers.

In this section

• City crash rankings2023 OTS crash rankings for all 28 cities in one table.
• County crash statisticsDeaths and injuries by year and by crash type.
• Pedestrian and bicycle safety dataWalking and biking deaths, e-bikes and local safety plans.

Key numbers at a glance

• 2014-2024 average per year in Riverside County: 284 people killed, 887 seriously injured and 12,918 with other injuries in traffic collisions. [source]
• Traffic deaths rose from a low of 246 in 2014 to a decade high of 335 in 2022. [source]
• OTS counted 15,177 people killed or injured in crashes countywide in 2023 [source].
• From 2014 to 2024, about 27 percent of people killed were walking or biking, about 76 of the roughly 284 deaths each year. [source]

Where official crash data comes from

What the data can and can't tell you

• Rankings are indicators, not verdicts. OTS says the rankings are only indicators of potential problems, and local circumstances can make a ranking overstate or understate a problem. [source]
• City figures leave out some roads. City rankings cover incorporated cities only: local streets and state highways within city limits that share jurisdiction with the CHP. A crash reported by the CHP on a shared-jurisdiction road does not count against the city. [source]
• Causes are the officer's call. The primary collision factor (PCF) is the main cause of the collision as determined by the officer at the scene. [source] A crash report's conclusion can be wrong, and it is not binding in a civil case.
• Hot-spot maps are not findings of danger. SCAG notes that a high injury network shows where fatal and serious collisions occur; it is not an assessment of whether a street is dangerous. [source]
• Data lags. OTS publishes crash rankings for the years 2017 through 2023; 2023 is the latest year available. [source] Recent crashes, including yours, may not appear in any published table yet.

How crash data fits into an injury claim

For an individual claim, the most important record is the report of your own crash; our crash report guide explains how to get it from each agency. Area-wide statistics play a narrower role.

When a road's design or condition may have contributed, a public entity can be liable for a dangerous condition of its property (Gov. Code § 835). One way to show the entity should have known about the danger is constructive notice: the condition existed long enough and was obvious enough that it should have been discovered (Gov. Code § 835.2). A history of similar crashes at the same place can be part of that picture. Claims against a city, the County or the State generally must be presented within six months (Gov. Code § 911.2); see our claims guide.

There is an important limit. Federal law bars reports, surveys, lists and data compiled for federal highway safety programs from being obtained in discovery or admitted as evidence in a damages case about a location they address (23 U.S.C. § 407). City Local Roadway Safety Plans print this warning themselves [source]. So a plan that lists an intersection as a hot spot is useful background for understanding a location, but it usually cannot be used as proof in court. Other evidence, such as the crash report, photos, witness statements and maintenance records, carries the weight.

Every fact on this page links to the official source it came from. We checked each one in September 2026. Agencies change fees and procedures, so confirm with the agency before you go. How we research.