Every reported crash in Fairfield, on one page
Fairfield Police have reported 12,199 crashes between 2017 and today. This page lays out the patterns and nothing more: how many, how serious, when they happen, and where. No arguments, just the record. If you want to know whether the new speed cameras actually target these crashes, the camera report picks that up below.
How many, and how serious
Most reported crashes are property damage only. From 2017 through 2026 the department counts 2,882 people injured, roughly 23.6 for every 100 crashes, and 11 killed. On the yearly chart below, gold marks the injury share.
| Year | Crashes | Injury | Fatal | Injury % | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1,681 | 345 | 1 | 20.5% | — |
| 2018 | 1,551 | 322 | 1 | 20.8% | -8% |
| 2019 | 1,520 | 366 | 1 | 24.1% | -2% |
| 2020 | 942 | 207 | 1 | 22.0% | -38% |
| 2021 | 1,221 | 287 | 1 | 23.5% | +30% |
| 2022 | 1,319 | 318 | 1 | 24.1% | +8% |
| 2023 | 1,284 | 323 | 3 | 25.2% | -3% |
| 2024 | 1,203 | 279 | 0 | 23.2% | -6% |
| 2025 | 1,155 | 304 | 2 | 26.3% | -4% |
| 2026 (YTD) | 323 | 131 | 0 | 40.6% | — |
The honest way to read this is year over year. The full years from 2017 to 2025 have stayed close to 1,320 crashes, drifting down a little. 2026 is only year-to-date, so its bar and row are partial and we leave it out of the year-over-year column. The injury figures count people injured, which is why the injury bar can sit higher than the crash-only rate.
Month over month
Crashes stay fairly flat across the year, with a mild autumn bump that usually puts October among the busiest months. This is the real monthly shape, built from each incident's own date rather than one timestamp per location. Hover a bar to see its month and count.
The final bar is the current, partial month. Tick labels mark each January.
When crashes happen
Taken across all years, crashes bunch up on Friday and in the late afternoon, peaking around 3 PM. That is the evening commute, not the small hours of the night. Use the year filter to see how any single year looks, and hover a bar for its exact count.
In 2017–2026, crashes cluster on Friday and peak around 3 PM (12,199 crashes with a timestamp). Switch the year to see the shape change.
Where crashes happen
Warmer colors are denser crash clusters. Crashes concentrate on the major arterials and their intersections.
The map uses the 12,199crashes that carry coordinates. The counts above use the department's full totals, so the difference between them is the crashes reported without a mappable location.
| # | Location | Crashes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-S | 38 |
| 2 | 732-N | 29 |
| 3 | 135-N | 29 |
| 4 | 279 STILLSON ROAD | 28 |
| 5 | BLACK ROCK TNPK | 19 |
| 6 | 1-N | 19 |
| 7 | GREENFIELD ST | 16 |
| 8 | 1-N | 13 |
| 9 | 58-N | 12 |
| 10 | TUNXIS HILL RD | 12 |
| 11 | 58-N | 12 |
| 12 | 59-S | 12 |
| Street | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1-N | 1,978 | 16.2% |
| 58-N | 1,323 | 10.8% |
| 1-S | 506 | 4.1% |
| 135-N | 461 | 3.8% |
| 732-N | 348 | 2.9% |
| 59-N | 334 | 2.7% |
| VILLA AV | 260 | 2.1% |
| MILL PLAIN RD | 228 | 1.9% |
| FAIRFIELD WOODS RD | 192 | 1.6% |
| REEF RD | 191 | 1.6% |
| COMMERCE DR | 181 | 1.5% |
| PARK AV | 175 | 1.4% |
Street and location labels are the representative value reported per coordinate; treat as approximate.
Next: do the new speed cameras target this?
Fairfield switched on school-zone speed cameras in May 2026. The companion report asks whether they sit where these crashes happen, and run when they happen.
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About this data
Source: the Fairfield Police Department Interactive Crime & Statistical Dashboard, incident years 2017–2026. We pull it straight from the dashboard's query API at the incident level, so each crash arrives with its own timestamp, street, call type, and coordinates. The counts, the month, hour, and day breakdowns, and severity all use the full incident set. The spatial views (the heatmap, the highest-crash locations, and the by-street table) use the 12,199 crashes with coordinates across 11,339 distinct locations, which is why they read a little below the department totals. Injuries and fatalities are people counts. Everything here is counts rather than rates, with no adjustment for traffic volume. The department may shift coordinates slightly for privacy.