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Alameda County Car Accidents By City

The California Highway Patrol has put together the statistics for state-wide auto accidents for calendar year 2008. What follows is my breakdown of information for Alameda County. A few highlights:

  1. 88 people were killed in car accidents in Alameda County in 2008.
  2. 36 of these fatal car accidents were in Oakland.
  3. 12 of these fatal car accidents were in Fremont.
  4. 13 of these fatal car accidents were in unincorporated areas of Alameda County (Castro Valley, San Lorenzo)
  5. The number of car accidents and deaths is spread fairly evenly across the year. But October 2008 saw a slight uptick in accidents and fatalities.
  6. There were a total of 5,393 reported injury accidents in Alameda County in 2008.

Now, on to the chart

Oakland
1,593 total car accidents
In 15 of these accidents, the driver was killed.
5 passengers killed.
15 pedestrians killed.
1 bicyclist killed.
1 motorcyclist killed.
Fremont
782 total car accidents.In 6 of these, the driver was killed.1 passenger killed.
5 pedestrians killed.
2 motorcyclists killed.
Hayward
581 total car accidents.
In 2 of these accidents, the drive was killed.
4 pedestrians killed.