Between 2020 and 2026, Chambers County recorded 9,630 reported crashes, including 108 deaths and 372 serious injuries, according to the Texas Department of Transportation's Crash Records Information System (CRIS). The highest-crash corridor was Interstate 10, with 4,185 crashes and 41 deaths over this period.
The 12 highway corridors ranked below account for 8,014 crashes — about 83% of every reported crash in the county — concentrating a large share of the area's most severe collisions onto a handful of roads.
Where the Crashes Concentrate
Interstate 10
Interstate 10 leads the county with 4,185 crashes, 41 deaths, and 145 serious injuries from 2020 through 2026. The most frequently recorded contributing factor in these crashes was “Failed To Control Speed.”
Across these corridors, the contributing factor recorded most often by investigating officers was “Failed To Control Speed” — a pattern consistent with high-speed, high-volume travel.
Highway Corridors Ranked by Crash Volume
| # | Corridor | Crashes | Deaths | Serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interstate 10 | 4,185 | 41 | 145 |
| 2 | State Highway 146 | 1,298 | 11 | 43 |
| 3 | FM 565 | 668 | 9 | 36 |
| 4 | State Highway 99 | 384 | 4 | 19 |
| 5 | FM 3180 | 363 | 1 | 12 |
| 6 | State Highway 124 | 280 | 7 | 11 |
| 7 | FM 1405 | 198 | 2 | 13 |
| 8 | FM 1409 | 160 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | FM 563 | 133 | 10 | 13 |
| 10 | State Highway 73 | 126 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | State Highway 61 | 112 | 3 | 8 |
| 12 | FM 1942 | 107 | 0 | 1 |
Ranked by total reported crashes, 2020–2026. Deaths and serious-injury counts are persons, not crashes.
Data & Methodology
The underlying crash records come from the Texas Department of Transportation's Crash Records Information System (CRIS), the official statewide record of reported traffic crashes, covering January 2020 through September 2026 in Chambers County.
The corridor‑level dataset on this page is original work produced by Local Traffic Accidents. We geocode the underlying incidents, match them to the numbered state‑highway system, and compute the per‑corridor crash, fatality, and serious‑injury totals, rankings, concentration shares, and per‑1,000 lethality rates shown here. The raw crash records are TxDOT's; the corridor identification, the derived statistics, and the rankings are our own.
Corridors are ranked by total reported crashes. “Deaths” counts persons killed and “serious injuries” counts persons with suspected serious injuries (the official KABCO “A” level), summed across all crashes on each corridor — not crash counts. This ranking covers the numbered state highway system (Interstates, U.S. and state highways, FM/RM roads, loops, and spurs); locally maintained surface streets are recorded under a separate, free-text field and are not included here. Each route is reported under its primary TxDOT designation; co-signed routes (for example, I-69 and U.S. 59) are noted but not combined.
Derived dataset & analysis: Local Traffic Accidents — corridor‑level geocoding, computation, and rankings, published as an original dataset.
Related Coverage
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