FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Virginia

Crash Indicator in Virginia

• 6,735Reportable crashes
• 23,458Registered carriers in the state
• 161Fatal crashes in the state

Reportable crashes -- a fatality, an injury or a tow-away -- as recorded by the state that investigated them. Virginia carries 6,735 reportable crashes in this category, out of 255,582 recorded nationally, which places it 13 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.026 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 12,855
• 2 to 5 power units 6,599
• 6 to 20 power units 1,900
• 21 to 100 power units 581
• 101 to 1,000 power units 96
• 1,000 or more power units 23

Other categories recorded in Virginia

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 163
• Driver Fitness 3,799
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 340
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,295
• Unsafe Driving 2,926
• Vehicle Maintenance 45,999

Crash Indicator across every jurisdiction → Every category in Virginia →

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.