Every cyclist killed by a driver on a US road · 2010–2024
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One ride
A ride is a line — from somewhere, toward somewhere. On the evening of January 2, 2010, on an unlit road in Worcester County, Maryland, a driver struck and killed a 23-year-old man on a bicycle.
His line stopped there. It was the second day of the decade.
Fifteen years
Keep scrolling. Every light is a person on a bicycle, in the place where a driver killed them — replayed in the order it happened, 2010 through 2024.
The toll
13,050 people were killed riding bicycles on American roads in fifteen years. Annual deaths rose 88% — from 623 in 2010 to a record 1,173 in 2023. The preliminary 2024 count dips to 1,103; NHTSA will revise it.
Nearly half were killed in the dark. More were killed by SUVs and pickups than ever before. The median victim was not a child on a cul-de-sac; it was an adult in their fifties, riding a road they likely knew well.
The drivers
The red lights are hit-and-runs. In 2010, 15% of drivers who killed a cyclist fled the scene. By 2023 it was 23% — nearly one in four.
And after the crash? No agency in America tracks what happens to the drivers. Whether they were charged, convicted, or simply drove home is not recorded anywhere — so we are building the registry that records it.
The registry
Every one of these deaths is in the open dataset below — mapped, documented, and free for anyone to use. Explore the map. Take the data. Hold someone accountable.
The registry
Each white bike marks one person, at the location recorded by the responding agency. Zoom in to your town. Click a marker for what is known — and what is not yet known.
65 deaths lack precise coordinates; they are in the CSV, not on the map.
Too recent for the federal data
Federal crash data lags a year or more. The deaths below are curated by hand from published news reports — named, cited, and updated as the legal process moves. Our rules for what gets published, and how to request a correction, are in the open: EDITORIAL.md.
The pattern
Fifteen years of federal crash data, one row per person. The numbers below reconcile with NHTSA's published totals to within a fraction of a percent — check our math, it's all downloadable.
Open data
The White Line, city dashboards, and federal reports let you look. This registry lets you use: one clean CSV, one row per person killed, versioned in the open.
Every pedalcyclist fatality in NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, 2010–2024, cleaned and joined: date, location (99.5% geocoded), age, sex, light condition, striking vehicle class, and crash-level hit-and-run, impaired-driver and speeding flags.
Data: CC BY 4.0 — use it for anything, credit "Last Ride Registry." Code: MIT. Upstream FARS data is US-government public domain. Cite it, fork it, print it, take it to a city council meeting.
What comes next
Every death since 2010, mapped and downloadable. You are looking at it.
For every 2023 hit-and-run death — roughly 275 cases, old enough that prosecutions have resolved — we will trace the outcome through court records: charged or not, convicted or not, sentence or nothing. Not scraped headlines. Records. Published as open data, case by case, with citations.
Expand cohort by cohort until "was the driver charged?" has a public answer for every cyclist killed in America — and a correction channel so families and local advocates can keep it honest.