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Crashes
and injury crashes peaked during evening
rush hour (5 PM) and had smaller peaks
during the lunch hour (noon) and early
morning commute time (7 AM). Fatal
crashes followed a much different
pattern. They peaked at 6 PM and had a
high percentage in late evening (8 PM-
midnight) and early morning (5 - 6 AM)
hours.
Winter months (January and December) had
the highest rates of crashes per day
while summer months had the highest rates
of injury and fatal crashes per
day. In fact, 44% of all fatal
crashes occurred between Memorial Day and
Labor Day. The fatal crash rate per
day was 1.9 between Memorial Day
and Labor Day, which was double the
yearly fatal crash rate per day of 0.9.
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