Washington Traffic Deaths in 2026
Quick answer: Washington 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 730 deaths in 2024 (NHTSA FARS), about 2.0 a day. Our news monitor found 11 crash reports naming Washington in the last 30 days, 0 of them mentioning a death; that is a news tally, not a death count.
Official sources last checked · news tally updated
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission publishes fatality figures in interactive dashboards with no open data feed. 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 Washington publishes its figures: WTSC fatalities dashboard
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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