Independent analysis · TxDOT public records

Houston: 34 pedestrian crashes involved deaths or suspected serious injuries

Research team · Dec 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024
Analysis prepared: Sep 10, 2026

Key takeaways

TxDOT records used in this analysis list 122 pedestrian involved crashes for Houston during Dec 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024.
For that entry and period, 34 crashes involved a death or suspected serious injury. Of those, 13 were fatal crashes—not additional crashes to add to the total.
Houston accounts for 15.3% of the 795 pedestrian involved crashes that meet this analysis’s filters in the same period.
These records show reported crashes, not your chance of a crash on a trip.

Source: TxDOT public crash records · Analysis prepared: Sep 10, 2026. How we counted

Houston: at a glance

pedestrian involved crashes · Dec 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024. These numbers describe this recorded city entry, not the whole study area.

122Reported crashes

34Crashes involving a death or suspected serious injury

13Fatal crashes · included in the previous count

The numbers at a glance

Compare the cities shown here by reported crashes. The chart shows up to ten entries. These entries may not include every crash in the analysis.

Across the wider analysis: 795 pedestrian involved crashes met the study filters during Dec 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2024. Counts do not measure the risk of an individual trip.

AI illustration of a generic urban streetscape. — AI-generated illustration. Not a photograph of an actual crash or a verified location.

Houston was the leading named city in the statewide December records for pedestrian-involved crashes. TxDOT records used in this analysis list 795 pedestrian involved crashes in Texas from 2024-12-01 through 2024-12-31, subject to the filters described in the methods. Houston recorded 122 of the crashes included in this analysis. Houston recorded the most crashes among the categories shown.

Houston’s total stood above the next-largest category shown, Unknown (9999), which represents records without a usable city designation rather than another Texas city. Houston recorded 122 crashes compared with 99 for Unknown (9999), a difference of 23 crashes. San Antonio and Dallas were the other named cities nearest Houston in the displayed ranking, but neither matched Houston’s reported-crash count.

Crash count and severe outcomes are not the same ranking

The count leader was not the leader in fatal or suspected serious-injury crash events among the categories shown. Unknown (9999) recorded 39 fatal or suspected serious-injury crashes compared with 34 for Houston—about 1.1 times the count. This comparison is between the categories shown. For Houston, the featured crash total included fatal and suspected serious-injury crashes, as well as fatal crashes. Houston recorded 122 crashes, including 34 fatal or suspected serious-injury crashes and 13 fatal crashes.

That distinction matters when reading a city ranking: reported crash totals describe where the most events were recorded in this statewide set, while severity counts describe a different outcome within those events. Deaths and suspected serious injuries are counts of people, not interchangeable with crash counts.

These figures cover reported crashes during the stated December period and do not account for how much walking, driving or other travel occurred in Houston or elsewhere at the time. They therefore show reported counts, not an individual’s crash risk or a rate of crashes.

Verified statistics

city	Reported crashes	Fatal / suspected serious-injury crashes	Fatal crashes	Deaths (people)	Suspected serious injuries (people)
Houston	122	34	13	13	24
San Antonio	77	15	4	4	11
Dallas	73	26	6	6	21
Austin	38	12	5	6	7
Fort Worth	27	15	7	7	9
El Paso	25	5	2	2	4

Methods, definitions and limitations

Period: 2024-12-01 through 2024-12-31. Cohort: Pedestrian involved. Grouping: City. Ranked by reported crashes. Minimum group size: 20; requested result limit: 100.
Saved filters: statewide, no additional filters.
Data completeness: unknown or unrecorded categories are omitted from the story, headlines, takeaways and charts. Their records remain in the source data and the full analysis total; percentages are not recalculated using only identified categories. Rankings compare only identified categories returned by the query.
Omitted category: Unknown (9999) — 99 reported crashes; 39 fatal or suspected serious-injury crashes; 13 fatal crashes; 14 deaths; 28 people with suspected serious injuries. Do not sum potentially overlapping categories.
Counts are distinct reported crashes within each group, not risk per trip or mile. Traffic exposure is not controlled. A crash involving several vehicle types can appear in more than one vehicle group; group counts must not be summed as a unique crash total.
Fatal crashes count crash events; deaths count people. Fatal or suspected serious-injury crashes count events; suspected serious injuries count people. These measures are not interchangeable.
196 matching crashes have no usable mapped coordinates. Missing coordinates alone do not exclude crashes from an analysis without a radius filter.
Exploratory change selected from many comparisons; no statistical significance is asserted.
Counts describe reported crashes, not the risk per trip or mile. Traffic exposure is not controlled.
A recorded crash factor is not a legal finding of fault.
Reporting and later amendments can change these results. Coverage is based on supplied extraction intervals, not a guarantee of reporting completeness.
Comparison: 2024-11-01 through 2024-11-30. These calendar months may differ in season and number of days. Raw counts are not exposure-adjusted rates.
The extract does not establish causation, legal fault, or statistical significance. Supplied extraction intervals do not guarantee reporting completeness; later reports and amendments can change results.
Source: Texas Department of Transportation public crash extract. 2 source batches. Evidence snapshot: 2026-09-10. The saved query and source batch IDs accompany exports.