Montgomery County Ohio Car Accident Attorney Discusses Statistics

Home to over half a million residents, Montgomery County takes its name from Brigadier General Richard Montgomery. Located southwest of the heart of Ohio, Montgomery County is home to over 559,000 residents. The majority of those residents reside in Dayton, which happens to be the county seat for Montgomery County, though 167,056 live in townships throughout the county. These 167,056 residents are the basis for the traffic-related statistics gathered by the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

Overall, Montgomery County is a fairly safe place for motorists considering its proximity to a major city and the often inclement weather that motorists in Ohio tend to deal with throughout a significant portion of the average year. With a grand total of 3,032 traffic accidents on record in 2007, and another 2,997 in 2008, it is certainly possible to say that large population of Montgomery County produces stable statistics.

The townships that experienced the most traffic accidents in Montgomery County during 2007 were: Miami with 742, Harrison with 739, Washington with 553, and Butler with 480. 2008 saw remarkably similar figures: Miami with a total of 762 traffic accidents, Harrison with 760, Butler with 534, and Washington with 508 total traffic accidents. This might initially suggest that the overall traffic accident rate is linked closely to population, which is not an unreasonable assessment and generally proves to be accurate.

Montgomery County proves to have a few exceptions to this general rule however, such as the Township of Butler. The Township of Butler ranks high for overall traffic accidents during both years, yet is home to only 8,382 residents of Montgomery County. If scaled up to the population of Washington, which is the most populated township in the county, Butler would experience more than 3,200 annual traffic accidents, or nearly 8 a day! There are many possible explanation for Butler’s extremely high per capita traffic accident rate, but it is not immediately clear which (if any) should be seriously considered.

Of course, it would be remiss not to note that the Township of Washington reported only 1061 total traffic accidents during the 2007-2008 time period, which is fairly impressive for a township with 52,991 residents. Even more interesting is the fact that only a single traffic-related fatality occurred in the Township of Washington during 2007, opposed to the 5 in Harrison and 4 in Miami. Given the Harrison is roughly half the population of Miami, the fact that it could actually top Miami in this dubious list is both impressive and unsettling. Unfortunately, Harrison placed second in the overall traffic-fatality list during 2008, with 3 fatalities on record. Butler and Washington tied for the top spot with 4 accidents each.

Harrison is also interesting for another reason: it is home to the greatest number of unexplained and/or un-attributable traffic accidents during both 2007 and 2008. With 9 unexplained traffic accidents on file in 2007, and 11 the following year, the Township of Harrison is the hit and run leader of Montgomery County two years running.


If you've been seriously injured or have lost a loved one in a Washington Township, Miami Township, or Harrison Township truck / car accident, call the Montgomery County auto accident and wrongful death attorneys / lawyers at Chester Law Group at 1-800-218-4243 or order your FREE BOOK entitled The Insider’s Guide to Handling Ohio Accident Claims at www.ChesterLaw.com.

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