DMV: New York notes sharp drop in fatal crashes for 2025

ALBANY, NY- New York State is seeing a sharp decline in the number of fatal crashes, the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee (GTSC) reports.

Overall, fatalities fell from 766 between January and October in 2024 to 681 during that same timeframe this year, the DMV claimed.

“While these declines in fatal crashes are dramatic and wonderful to see, it is critically important that we continue our efforts to reduce them further,” said DMV Commissioner Mark J.F. Schroeder.

Motorcycle fatalities also decreased, according to preliminary data from the University at Albany’s Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research.

The number of fatalities in motorcycle crashes dropped from 157 in 2024 to 134 in 2025.

In upstate New York, the numbers of fatalities in crashes declined from 490 to 420.

The critical components to reducing traffic fatalities are education, enforcement and engineering. GTSC works with law enforcement partners at the state, county and local level to educate the public about safe driving and to support enforcement efforts targeting dangerous behavior.

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