Every cyclist killed by a driver on a US road · 2010–2024
scroll
One ride
The single light on the map is one person on a bicycle, killed by a driver — the first death in the federal record, January 2010.
There are 13,049 more.
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.
1,196 of them were children.
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 national database records what happened to the driver. Charged, convicted, or simply drove home — the federal record stops at the death. We are building the registry that follows what came after.
The registry
Every death here is in the open dataset — mapped, documented, and free to use. Look up your own town, or take the numbers to a council meeting and ask what changed on that road afterward.
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 the details on record.
65 deaths lack precise coordinates; they are in the CSV, not on the map.
The map is the start. The rest of the registry: