Houston is on pace to record the fewest traffic deaths since 2020.
By the numbers: There were 142 overall traffic deaths in city limits and 658 crashes that caused serious injury in the first six months of 2025, per preliminary state data.
By the same time in 2024, 176 people had died in traffic collisions and there were 676 crashes that caused serious injury.
Zoom in: Of the 142 who died in the first half of 2025, 53 were pedestrians and two were on bicycles, according to the data.
58 pedestrians and two cyclists had died in that timeframe in 2024.
Flashback: Houston ended 2024 with 317 total traffic deaths, including 119 pedestrians and eight cyclists.
Records show 302 people died in traffic crashes in 2023; 325 died in 2022; 330 died in 2021; and 274 died in 2020.
