This is TxDOT's landing page for official crash statistics, home to the annual "Texas Motor Vehicle Crash Facts" reports. These aggregate the raw CRIS data into readable published tables.
The reports classify crashes clearly by rural vs. urban setting, commercial trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, pedestrians, and contributing violations — making them useful when a ready-to-cite figure is needed rather than a custom query.
What it contains: statewide and county-level breakdowns in annual PDF/Excel form, covering roughly ten years of data.
Best for: journalists and writers who want an authoritative, already-compiled figure with a clear citation, rather than building one from raw records.