Morgan County Ohio Car Accident Attorney Discusses Statistics

Named after Congress of Virginia member and American Revolutionary War hero General Daniel Morgan, Morgan County is home to only 14,897 residents. Covering 422 square miles southeast of the heart of Ohio, Morgan County is not populated enough to draw meaningful information from in terms of single year traffic statistics. Instead, it is only possible to gleaning meaningful facts when looking at two or more years of crash-related statistics in Morgan County.

Despite having a modest population, there were 301 traffic accidents and a pair of traffic-related fatalities on record in Morgan County during 2007, followed by 305 traffic accidents and a single fatality the next year. The overall number of traffic accidents remained similar during both years, but the overall rate is still a little higher than what would be expected of a county with under 15,000 total residents.

The townships that led Morgan County in overall traffic accidents during 2007 were: Malta with a total of 42, Morgan (the township) with 41, Windsor with 37, and Bloom with 32. 2008 saw a new repeat of the placement of these townships on the list of most traffic-accident prone townships in Morgan County: Morgan (the township) with 43 total traffic accidents on records, Malta with 38, Bloom with 36, and Windsor with 33 traffic accidents on record.

It is only fitting that the most populated township in Morgan County, Morgan, take the number one spot in terms of overall traffic accidents. What is a little unexpected is the fact that the Township of Malta and the Township of Windsor have nearly identical populations, with 1,964 and 1,951 respectively. Why then does the Township of Malta receive more traffic accidents than the Township of Windsor, and occasionally more than that of the Township of Morgan? These are good questions, though the answer is not entirely to be found in the records provided by the Ohio Department of Public Safety. One possible explanation might be found in the alcohol-related traffic accident statistics.

Malta tied the Township of Morgan for the most alcohol-related traffic accidents on file in 2007 with a total of three incidents each. The Township of Malta then went on to become the uncontested alcohol-related traffic accident leader the following year with 5 incidents compared to Morgan’s steady trio of annual alcohol-related traffic accidents. Fortunately, Morgan County went alcohol-related traffic fatality free in 2008, but there were two alcohol-linked traffic fatalities in 2007; one in Marion and another in Township of Meigsville, which has a population of less than 900. IT is also worth noting that the two alcohol-related traffic fatalities in Morgan County during 2007 were both alcohol-related, but drawing deeper meaning from such small data sets is inadvisable.

The Township of Bloom recorded the greatest number of unknown and/or unexplained traffic accidents during 2007, with 2 of the county’s three such accidents. The other accident happened in the Township of Homer, which is home to only 976 residents. The Township of Bloom was the only township in Morgan County to record an unknown or unexplained traffic accident the following year, though there was only one such accident on file.


If you've been seriously injured or have lost a loved one in a Malta Township, Morgan Township, or Windsor Township truck / car accident, call the Morgan 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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