Pike County Ohio Car Accident Attorney Discusses Statistics

Pike County takes its name from Zebulon Pike, a famous explorer and solider, and happens to be home to 27,695 residents. Located due south of central Ohio, Pike County does experience adverse weather during significant portions of the average year. The comparatively low population of Pike County does mean that caution is advised when trying to make sense of the facts and figures presented in the reports issued by the Ohio Department of Public Safety regarding the road conditions in the various townships throughout Pike County.

Pike County recorded a grand total of 614 traffic accidents and 5 traffic-related fatalities during 2007, and another 597 traffic accidents in 2008 as well as 6 more traffic-related fatalities. These statistics are well in line with statewide averages, though there are a few safer counties in Ohio. This might be due to the strange rash of unknown and/or unexplained traffic accidents that seem to affect Pike County.

There were 18 unknown and/or un-attributable traffic accidents recorded in Pike County during 2007, and another 18 during 2008. These figures are extremely high for a county with such a small overall population. The Township of Union tied with the Township of Pebble in 2007 for top honors in the unexplained accident category with three such incidents on file in each township. Beaver, Camp Creek, Mifflin, and Sunfish all reported two such accidents during 2007, and the following townships in Pike County reported a single unknown and/or unexplained traffic accidents during 2007: Jackson, Pee Pee, Perry, and Seal. The Township of Pee Pee took top honors in this particular category the following year, with 5 of the 18 countywide unexplained accidents taking place in the township that is home to 7,776 residents.

It is only expected for a township with around 5,000 residents to be a nexus for unexplained accidents, as most of those accidents are hit and run accidents by nature. A town with slightly more residents, such as the 7,776 that call Pee Pee home, is an ideal location for such activity as it is too large for everyone to know everyone and yet small enough that the law enforcement officials are not well funded enough to handle such cases.

The Township of Pee Pee also saw more total crashes than any other township in Pike County during 2007, with 104 total accidents on file. Other townships to experience a high number of overall traffic accidents during 2007 were: Seal with a grand total of 80 such accidents on file, Newton with 62, Beaver with 61 total traffic accidents. The Township of Seal was again atop the list of traffic-accident prone townships in Pike County during 2008, with another 104 traffic accidents on file, which actually topped Pee Pee’s 92 total traffic accidents. Newton recorded another 62 total traffic accidents, but the Township of Beaver became a substantially safer place for motorists in Pike County during 2008 as it recorded only 28 total accidents that year. Perhaps the two fatal traffic accidents that happened in the Township of Beaver during 2007 were enough of a warning to residents and others that pass through Beaver on a routine basis.


If you've been seriously injured or have lost a loved one in a Union Township, Pebble Township, or Beaver Township truck / car accident, call the Shelby 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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