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Colorado crash statistics

Figures published by the State of Colorado, cited rather than rounded into a headline.

Reviewed by the editorial teamChecked 11 September 2026How we check this

701

Traffic deaths in Colorado, 2025

CDOT, preliminary figures, January 2026

689

Traffic deaths in 2024

CDOT

3 yrs

Deadline for a Colorado crash claim

C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n)

What we will not publish

Average settlement figures, "claims are worth X times medical bills", and county-by-county crash tables we cannot source. Those numbers circulate widely on legal marketing sites and almost none of them are traceable to a published dataset.

When the Colorado Department of Transportation publishes its final figures for a year, this page is updated and the date changes.

Where this comes from

Every statement on this page traces to one of the sources below. Where the text was read somewhere other than the body that issued it, that is noted.

  1. Colorado Department of Transportation, January 2026 CDOT news release, preliminary data Official sourceChecked 11 September 2026.
  2. C.R.S. § 13-80-101(1)(n) Colorado Legislative Council Staff, statutes of limitation summary Secondary sourceChecked 11 September 2026.
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