52
Rhode Island traffic fatalities in 2024. Rate: 0.68 per 100 million VMT.
Rhode Island
Our roads, in official numbers
RIDOT Crash Facts count police-reported crashes in the statewide repository. NHTSA FARS is a separate federal census of fatal crashes. RIDOT itself warns that FARS totals can differ from the state repository, and that fatal and serious-injury counts in Crash Facts may be preliminary.
NHTSA fatalities
37
Estimated Rhode Island fatalities in 2025 (−28.8% from 2024). Rate: 0.47. NHTSA says 2025 counts can still be revised.
36,640
Estimated U.S. traffic deaths in 2025 (−6.7% from 2024). Rhode Island’s drop was steeper than the national estimate, from a small base.
Source: NHTSA, Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate in 2025 (DOT HS 813 800), Table 3. Dataset: FARS.
Trend, 2016–2024
RIDOT HSIP 2025 annual report. These fatality counts align with the federal series RIDOT reports to FHWA (52 in 2024).
Same HSIP report. Serious injuries trended down from 407 in 2016 to 246 in 2024, with year-to-year noise.
RIDOT Crash Facts (state repository)
These PDFs summarize police-reported crashes. Fatal and serious-injury fields may be preliminary. Parking-lot crashes are included in the totals and broken out in the footnotes.
| Year | Period | Crashes | Fatalities* | Serious injuries* | Ped. deaths | Motorcycle deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | full year | 39,324 | 45 | 320 | 13 | 5 |
| 2025 | full year | 36,850 | 42 | 268 | 10 | 9 |
| 2026 | January 1–September 30 | 29,776 | 36 | 204 | 9 | 10 |
2024 PDF: Crash Facts 2024. 2025: Crash Facts 2025. 2026 YTD: January–September 2026.
Notice 2024: RIDOT Crash Facts lists 45 fatalities; NHTSA lists 52. RIDOT tells readers to use FARS for official federal fatality statistics. We show both rather than picking the number that looks neater.
Selected cities, 2025 (crash location)
RIDOT Crash Facts 2025, by municipality of crash (not of driver’s residence). Providence 5,868 crashes / 9 deaths; Warwick 3,615 / 7; Newport 908 / 0.
| City | Crashes | Fatalities* | Serious injuries* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence | 5,868 | 9 | 26 |
| Warwick | 3,615 | 7 | 26 |
| Cranston | 3,354 | 3 | 18 |
| Pawtucket | 3,021 | 0 | 29 |
| Newport | 908 | 0 | 8 |
Little Roady, in brief
Rhode Island already hosted an AV shuttle. RIDOT’s Little Roady ran May 2019–June 2020 on a 5.3-mile, 12-stop loop between Olneyville Square and Providence Station. Vehicles were electric, slow, and staffed with a human attendant. The official evaluation (RIDOT-RTD-SPR-235-2279) reports improving operations, infrequent incidents, generally positive riders — and data-sharing limits plus a lot of manual driving in hard situations. COVID ended the service. Details and bill history live on the actions index.