Florida Traffic Deaths in 2026
Quick answer: Florida does not publish an official running count of 2026 traffic deaths that we can read and check, so this page does not show one. The latest final official figure is 3,138 deaths in 2024 (NHTSA FARS), about 8.6 a day. Our news monitor found 329 crash reports naming Florida in the last 30 days, 152 of them mentioning a death; that is a news tally, not a death count.
Official sources last checked · news tally updated
FLHSMV shows preliminary 2026 figures only in an interactive crash dashboard, which has no open data feed and refuses automated readers. We only show a running count when the state publishes it in a form we can read and check every 6 hours; we do not copy totals from news stories or estimate one.
Where Florida publishes its figures: FLHSMV crash dashboard
Latest fatal crash reports in Florida
Headlines from the site's news monitor that name Florida or its largest cities and mention a death, last 30 days. One crash can appear in several reports, and many fatal crashes are never reported, so this is not a death count.
Running counts in other states
| State | Deaths this year | Counted to |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 923 | 2026-10-30 |
| Illinois | 824 | 2026-11-02 |
| Tennessee | 798 | 2026-11-02 |
| Missouri | 727 | 2026-11-01 |
| Pennsylvania | 712 | 2026-08-31 |
| New Jersey | 451 | 2026-11-02 |
| Louisiana | 448 | 2026-10-19 |
| Wisconsin | 435 | 2026-11-01 |
All 17 states with a running count, compared with the same date last year
Sources: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) 2024, final, via the IIHS state-by-state tables (US federal data, public domain). Final figures for 2026 are published by NHTSA about a year after the year ends.
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