NM Vehicle Accidents — Galisteo area

An interactive map of vehicle crashes on the roads around Galisteo, New Mexico, with road segments color-coded by fatal-crash rate (fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle-miles driven), so volume is accounted for — not just raw counts.

Live map: https://tedalcorn.github.io/NM-vehicle-accidents/

What's shown

• Road segments colored by fatal-crash rate (green = low, red = high).
• Fatal crashes 2008–2024 (red dots) — click for date, type (e.g. bicyclist, rollover), and whether alcohol was involved.
• Serious/injury crashes 2012–2016 — a partial layer, toggled off by default.

Sources

• Fatal crashes: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 1975–2024. Reliable coordinates begin ~2008, so the map plots 2008 onward.
• Traffic volume & serious-injury crashes: New Mexico DOT (public ArcGIS).

Caveats (read before drawing conclusions)

• Per-segment fatal-crash rates rest on small numbers — read them case by case (each segment's raw count is in its popup), not as precise estimates.
• Rates use 2024 traffic counts against a 2008–2024 crash window, so they don't adjust for how traffic changed over time.
• County/local roads (e.g. CR 42) carry only a placeholder traffic count, so they're left off the rated network; crashes on them still appear.
• U.S. average fatal-crash rate ≈ 1.3 per 100M vehicle-miles, for reference.