Super Bowl Sunday 2018: fatal car accidents and deaths
Over Super Bowl Sunday 2018, February 4, 97 people died in 84 fatal car accidents on US roads, about the same as the 97 on a normal day. It was the sixth most of the ten from 2015 to 2024. Game night (6 pm to 6 am) alone: 36 deaths, against 37 on a normal day.
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Super Bowl Sunday 2018 road deaths in every state
California had the most, 16 deaths, then Texas with 12. In 29 of 51 states and DC at least one person died; a 0 is a real count of none. One year's counts are too small to rank states by; every year together ranks them per resident.
| State | Deaths | Fatal crashes | Pedestrians |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 16 | 15 | 2 |
| Texas | 12 | 10 | 2 |
| Indiana | 10 | 6 | 2 |
| Florida | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Missouri | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Louisiana | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Tennessee | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Ohio | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Alabama | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Georgia | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Michigan | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Maryland | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Arizona | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mississippi | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| New Jersey | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| New Mexico | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Utah | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| West Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Alaska | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arkansas | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colorado | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Connecticut | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delaware | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| District of Columbia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hawaii | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Idaho | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maine | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Massachusetts | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Montana | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nevada | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New York | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oregon | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vermont | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Washington | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2024 Annual Report File (released April 2026, subject to revision). How we count
Questions about Super Bowl Sunday 2018 fatal car accidents
- How many people died in car crashes on Super Bowl Sunday 2018?
- 97 people died in 84 fatal crashes on US roads over Super Bowl Sunday 2018, February 4, about the same as the 97 on a normal day. Of them, 15 were pedestrians. Source: NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
- Which state had the most road deaths on Super Bowl Sunday 2018?
- California, with 16 deaths. In 29 of 51 states and DC at least one person died on the roads.
- Was Super Bowl Sunday 2018 deadlier than usual?
- 97 road deaths was the sixth most of the ten from 2015 to 2024; the average is 102. The deadliest was 2021 and the least deadly 2015.
Where the Super Bowl Sunday 2018 numbers come from
Every fatal crash NHTSA dated from the Sunday of the game, midnight to midnight in 2018, in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, final file. The normal day is the same weekdays in the weeks before and after, averaged (6 of them this year). How the holiday is counted.