FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Rhode Island

Crash Indicator in Rhode Island

• 243Reportable crashes
• 4,065Registered carriers in the state
• 2Fatal crashes in the state

Reportable crashes -- a fatality, an injury or a tow-away -- as recorded by the state that investigated them. Rhode Island carries 243 reportable crashes in this category, out of 255,582 recorded nationally, which places it 49 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.001 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 2,067
• 2 to 5 power units 1,400
• 6 to 20 power units 374
• 21 to 100 power units 83
• 101 to 1,000 power units 17
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Other categories recorded in Rhode Island

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 32
• Driver Fitness 1,152
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 60
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 674
• Unsafe Driving 2,638
• Vehicle Maintenance 4,845

Crash Indicator across every jurisdiction → Every category in Rhode Island →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. The rank is taken over the jurisdictions this desk publishes, and the national figure beside it is the register’s own total for the category.