Preliminary data show that Austin recorded 99 traffic fatalities and 301 serious injuries in 2025. While fatalities increased slightly by 2% compared with 2024, serious injuries fell by 28%, resulting in a combined 22% decrease in the most severe crashes.

Pedestrian outcomes improved notably. Pedestrian fatalities dropped by nearly 23%, and serious injuries fell by 15%, marking the lowest pedestrian share of severe crashes Austin has seen in recent years. This improvement comes as many U.S. cities continue to struggle with elevated pedestrian risk, even as national traffic deaths begin to level off from pandemic-era highs.

Overall, serious injuries in Austin have declined in recent years, with 2025 marking the lowest count since Vision Zero was adopted. Both deaths and serious injuries are considerably lower than the high-water mark of 2022, when Austin recorded 117 deaths and 540 serious injuries.

While the causes are complex, evaluations of Austin's safety investments point to positive impacts: major intersection projects have been linked to a 38% reduction in fatal and serious injury crashes, and protected intersections to a 42% reduction. Approximately 65%-75% of Austin’s traffic fatalities occur on roads owned by the state.

Breaking down the numbers by transportation mode category, increases and reductions were mixed on fatalities. Deaths among motorists, motorcyclists, bicyclists and e-scooter riders were up compared to 2024, while pedestrian fatalities dropped from 39 to 30.

Serious injuries, however, were down across all categories except e-scooter riders, which rose from 5 to 7. 

Serious injuries 2024 and 2025 

Another important marker of improvement is that combined fatal and serious injuries per capita went down even as Austin’s population has risen. In 2024 Austin recorded 49.3 serious injuries and fatalities per 100,000 population; that dropped to 37.9 in 2025. In 2022 this number was 64.7. (It is important to note here that not every person who is killed or injured in Austin traffic is a resident of Austin; thousands of people from outside the city limits travel here every day.) 

Traffic safety is also an equity issue. Black people tend to be significantly overrepresented in severe crashes, making up 11.8% of serious injuries and fatalities in 2025 and 15% in 2024, despite making up only 8% of Austin’s population. Vision Zero addresses these disparities by prioritizing investments in the communities that need them most. This is accomplished through community engagement (including multilingual materials and interpreters) and incorporating new data sources to better understand injury patterns among populations where crashes are often underreported.

Male overrepresentation among crash victims got slightly worse in 2025 than previous years. In 2024, males accounted for 67.6% of deaths and serious injuries, and that rose to 70.5% in 2025. This overrepresentation is believed to be due to higher rates of risky behaviors like speeding, impaired driving and aggressive driving recorded among younger men.

More detail on Austin’s progress from 2015–2024 is available in Vision Zero’s 10-year report released in October.