How Many Car Accidents Occur in Charleston and Across the State Each Year?

SCDPS estimates 141,874 traffic accidents occurred on South Carolina roads in 2017, a number that has continued to increase each year. Although 2017 only saw 275 more collisions than 2016, the increase in numbers is much more drastic when comparing earlier years. For example, 113,260 traffic crashes occurred in 2013, more than 28,000 less than 2017, representing more than a 25 percent increase in five years. Among 2017’s crashes were 925 fatalities and 39,466 collisions that resulted in injury, a decrease from 2016’s all-time high record of 40,187 injury collisions. When examining the overall collisions, injuries, and fatalities over the 10-year period from 2008 through 2017, each reveals an overall increase from 2008. Charleston County had the most injury collisions (4,391) in the state and the second highest number of total traffic accidents (16,850).