The Most Dangerous Streets in Los Angeles: 2025 Crash Data
These are the most dangerous streets in Los Angeles by the 2025 numbers, counted from CHP crash records for the City of Los Angeles. Figueroa Street led the city's surface streets in crashes, injury crashes, pedestrian crashes, felony hit-and-runs and deaths.
Which Los Angeles streets see the most crashes, hit-and-runs and deaths? We pulled every City of Los Angeles crash record the California Highway Patrol has published for 2025 and counted them street by street. Freeways are left out of the street rankings, so those rankings are about the surface streets people use every day in cars, on foot and on bikes.
Here is what the 2025 records show:
- 335 people were killed in 318 fatal crashes inside the City of Los Angeles.
- 167 of those deaths, about half, came in crashes that involved a pedestrian.
- 93 of the 318 fatal crashes, about 29 percent, were hit-and-runs.
- 201 fatal crashes, about 63 percent, happened after dark.
- Figueroa Street had more crashes (489), more crashes involving pedestrians (84), more felony hit-and-runs (143) and more deaths (13) than any other surface street in the city.
The citywide counts above include crashes on freeways inside city limits, which CHP handles. Counts that cover only LAPD's surface streets are lower. The street rankings below leave freeways out.
Traffic deaths in City of Los Angeles crashes, 2019 to 2025
Deaths are the one count we compare across years. Crash and injury totals changed with LAPD's records switch, so they are not charted by year. These totals include crashes on freeways inside city limits.
Source: CHP California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), City of Los Angeles rows, pulled Oct. 12, 2026.
Figueroa Street topped the list in 2025
Figueroa is one of the longest streets in the city. It runs through Northeast Los Angeles, downtown and South Los Angeles, so it carries a lot of traffic and crosses many neighborhoods. That length is part of why its totals are high. Even so, it led the city on every measure we counted, including injury crashes.
In 2025, CHP's records list 489 crashes on Figueroa, 245 of them with at least one person hurt. 84 involved a pedestrian, 143 were felony hit-and-runs, and 13 people died. The next highest death count on a surface street was 11, on Broadway.
Federal records point the same way over a longer stretch. In NHTSA's fatal crash files for 2019 through 2024, Figueroa was named in about 30 fatal crashes in the city, behind Western Avenue (about 38) and Foothill Boulevard (about 33).
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The 10 surface streets with the most injury crashes in 2025
Ranked by crashes where at least one person was hurt. A crash counts for a street when the street is named as the main road or the cross street, so a crash at an intersection of two listed streets counts for both.
| Street | Crashes | Injury crashes | Pedestrian crashes | Felony hit-and-runs | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figueroa Street | 489 | 245 | 84 | 143 | 13 |
| Vermont Avenue | 406 | 238 | 72 | 133 | 5 |
| Western Avenue | 365 | 200 | 55 | 118 | 7 |
| Sepulveda Boulevard | 292 | 163 | 30 | 72 | 5 |
| Olympic Boulevard | 246 | 147 | 37 | 80 | 6 |
| Broadway | 293 | 139 | 38 | 74 | 11 |
| Pico Boulevard | 251 | 132 | 35 | 73 | 3 |
| Venice Boulevard | 239 | 131 | 32 | 57 | 6 |
| Normandie Avenue | 218 | 129 | 32 | 63 | 1 |
| Main Street | 255 | 129 | 36 | 71 | 5 |
Source: CHP California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), data.ca.gov, City of Los Angeles rows, pulled Oct. 12, 2026. data.ca.gov/dataset/ccrs
Crash-level file
Every 2025 crash in the City of Los Angeles, one row each, with cross streets and coordinates. Coordinates in the lat_est and lon_est columns were estimated by us from the cross street; the lat_state and lon_state coordinates come from the state.
Download every 2025 crash (CSV, 29,917 rows, 4.1 MB)
One row per crash, sorted by date and time. We pulled it from CCRS on Oct. 13, 2026, a day after the figures above, and CHP keeps updating rows, so a total can be off by a crash or two from the page (this file has 29,917 crashes and 319 fatal crashes).
52.5 percent of rows carry state coordinates, and nearly all of those are freeway crashes. We estimated a point for 12,926 of the 14,220 rows without them (229 of the 250 fatal crashes). 1,294 rows have no coordinates at all.
How we estimated: we found where the main road meets the cross street in the City of Los Angeles street centerline and intersection data, then moved the point the reported distance north, south, east or west. When two streets meet in more than one place, we used the crash's LAPD reporting district, or other mapped crashes at the same corner, to pick the right one. We left a row blank when we could not place it with confidence, when the reported distance was over a quarter mile, or when the point fell outside the city. LAPD published its own map points for crashes through early March 2025, and on those reports 80 percent of our estimates were within 100 meters of LAPD's point.
State coordinates are published as CHP released them. 702 of them fall outside the city limits, and we did not change them.
The is_freeway column is our approximate freeway flag. It matches route names such as I-10, US-101 and SR-110 in the main road, so it will miss or catch a few crashes. It is not an official CHP field. The street rankings above use this name pattern and also drop every crash CHP flags as a freeway crash.
As with the rest of this page, please do not use this data to compare crash or injury counts across years. LAPD's records change makes older counts look higher.
Data dictionary (17 entries)
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
collision_id | The state's crash ID (CCRS Collision Id). |
crash_datetime | Date and local time of the crash. |
primary_road | Main road, as the officer wrote it. |
secondary_road | Cross street, as the officer wrote it. |
secondary_distance | Distance from the cross street. Blank or 0 means at the intersection. |
secondary_unit | feet or miles. |
secondary_direction | Direction from the cross street: N, S, E or W. |
killed | People killed. |
injured | People injured. |
hit_run | felony, misdemeanor, or blank when it was not a hit-and-run. |
pedestrian_involved | 1 if a pedestrian was involved, otherwise 0. |
lighting | Lighting, as coded in the report. |
collision_type | Collision type, as coded in the report (such as REAR END or BROADSIDE). |
is_freeway | 1 if the main road matches our approximate freeway name pattern, otherwise 0. |
lat_state, lon_state | Latitude and longitude from the state record, unchanged. Blank when the state left them empty. |
lat_est, lon_est | Our estimated latitude and longitude. Filled only when the state coordinates are blank. |
est_method | intersection_lacity: placed at the intersection. intersection_lacity+offset: placed at the intersection, then moved the reported distance and direction. Blank: no estimate. |
Injury crashes on the 10 surface streets with the most, City of Los Angeles, 2025
Source: CHP California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), City of Los Angeles rows, pulled Oct. 12, 2026.
Map of 2025 crash hot spots
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Long streets, big totals
These are totals, not rates. Figueroa, Vermont and Western each run for many miles, so they would rank high even if every block were average. The numbers tell you where crashes pile up, not which single block is the most dangerous. For that, the city's own map is a better guide.
LADOT's High Injury Network marks the streets where serious crashes cluster. LADOT says it covers 6 percent of city streets, over 450 miles, but accounts for 70 percent of deaths and severe injuries for people walking.
People on foot carry the heaviest share
Crashes that involved a pedestrian accounted for 167 of the 335 traffic deaths in the city in 2025. That matches the federal pattern: in NHTSA's files, pedestrians were 869 of the 1,914 people killed in City of Los Angeles crashes from 2019 through 2024, or 45 percent, and 156 of 308 in 2024.
Figueroa (84), Vermont (72) and Western (55) had the most crashes involving pedestrians in 2025.
Hit-and-run and after-dark crashes
In 93 of the city's 318 fatal crashes in 2025, a driver fled. CHP's records for the year list 3,750 felony hit-and-runs in all, meaning crashes where a driver left after someone was hurt or killed.
201 of the 318 fatal crashes happened in the dark. In 158 of them, the streetlights were on.
If a driver hits you and leaves, report it to police within 24 hours. That report is one of the conditions for using your own uninsured motorist coverage after a hit-and-run with an unknown driver.
2026 so far
As of our Oct. 12, 2026 pull, CHP's records list 193 deaths in City of Los Angeles crashes in 2026, through Oct. 8. The most recent months fill in over time as reports are finished, so this number will rise.
If you were hurt on one of these streets
LAPD handles crashes on city surface streets. You can request the report online, but LAPD asks you to wait at least 45 days after the crash.
In California you generally have two years to file an injury lawsuit against a private driver. If a city vehicle or a dangerous road condition played a part, a written claim to the city is usually due within six months.
If a driver hit you while you were walking, read how Moe handles pedestrian accident cases in Los Angeles. If the driver drove off, see what goes into a hit-and-run claim. Riders hurt on these same streets can learn about motorcycle accident claims. For citywide deaths over several years, see our Los Angeles car accident statistics, and for questions about your own crash, talk with a Los Angeles car accident lawyer.
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How we counted: methodology
Source: the California Highway Patrol's California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), published on data.ca.gov as the 'ccrs' dataset. We pulled every crash row with City Name = Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2026. The newest crash in the data was 2026-10-08.
The citywide totals on this page (deaths, fatal crashes, hit-and-runs, after-dark crashes and the 2026 count) cover every City of Los Angeles row, so they include crashes on freeways inside city limits, which CHP handles. Counts that cover only LAPD's surface streets are lower. We do not split these totals into freeway and surface street crashes, because the freeway filter is approximate.
Freeways, highways and state routes are excluded from the street rankings. That includes every crash CHP flags as a freeway crash, even when the report names a surface street as the nearest cross street. Street names are typed by officers, so we standardized spellings (such as 'S FIGUEROA ST' and 'Figueroa Street' count as one street). A small number of rows with unusual spellings may be missed, so treat street counts as minimums.
A crash counts for a street when the street is the main road or the cross street. Injury crash = at least one person injured. Felony hit-and-run = a crash coded as a felony hit-and-run, meaning someone was hurt or killed. Pedestrian crash = a pedestrian was involved. Deaths = people killed as recorded in the crash row.
We do not compare crash or injury totals across years. CCRS lists 56,541 City of Los Angeles crashes for 2019 but 30,033 for 2021, while deaths stayed close (282 and 336). LAPD changed records systems in that period, and its own open-data portal says its collision file stopped updating after the change, so the drop reflects reporting, not safer streets.
Deaths do line up with federal data. CCRS lists 341 City of Los Angeles deaths for 2023, and NHTSA's FARS shows 341.
Recent months are incomplete because reports keep arriving after a crash. CHP may revise rows later.
Using this data. You may quote, chart or republish these figures with credit to Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. and a link to this page. The underlying CHP and NHTSA records are public.
Sources
- California Crash Reporting System (CCRS) · California Highway Patrol, data.ca.gov, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- FARS 2024 national data files · National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- Traffic Collision Data from 2010 to Present · City of Los Angeles Open Data, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- Vision Zero Maps (High Injury Network) · Los Angeles Department of Transportation, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- Request a Traffic Report · Los Angeles Police Department, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- California Code of Civil Procedure § 335.1 · California Legislative Information, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- California Government Code § 911.2 · California Legislative Information, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
- California Insurance Code § 11580.2 · California Legislative Information, accessed Oct. 12, 2026
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