915 INJURY · EL PASO HIT-AND-RUN DATA REPORT (R01)
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CONTENTS

el-paso-hit-and-run-2026.csv
  A consolidated, journalist-friendly CSV containing the 15 worst
  El Paso intersections by hit-and-run rate (minimum 30 crashes
  over 5 years), plus the 15 worst by absolute hit-and-run count.
  Includes latitude/longitude for mapping, total crash counts,
  hit-and-run counts, rates, and fatal crash counts.

  Columns:
    rank_by_rate           integer or blank
    rank_by_count          integer or blank
    intersection           street A & street B
    crashes_5yr            total reported crashes 2022-01-01 to 2026-04-24
    hit_run_crashes_5yr    crashes with Vehicle Hit and Run Flag = Yes
    hit_run_percent        hit_run_crashes_5yr / crashes_5yr * 100
    fatal_crashes_5yr      crashes with Fatal Crash Flag = 1
    latitude               decimal degrees, mean of crash points
    longitude              decimal degrees

data-trend-by-year.csv
  Four-row year-over-year table, 2022 through 2025.
  Columns: year, total_crashes, hit_run_crashes, hit_run_percent

DATA SOURCE

All numbers derive from the TxDOT Crash Records Information System
(CRIS) public Query Builder at https://cris.dot.state.tx.us/public/Query/.
One year-range query per year, filter City = EL PASO, all crash
severities and types, full attribute list export.

The raw extract preserved in our project archive:
  data/raw/2026-04-24/crashes_units_persons_{YEAR}_elpaso_*.csv

METHODOLOGY SUMMARY

- Unit of analysis: 82,107 unique crashes after deduplicating on
  CRIS Crash ID across the 5 per-year exports.
- Hit-and-run flag: a crash is counted if ANY unit (vehicle) in
  the crash has the Vehicle Hit and Run Flag = Yes.
- Intersection key: Street Name + Intersecting Street Name, both
  required to be populated, plus At Intersection Flag = true.
  21,462 of 82,107 crashes (26%) meet this strict definition, across
  4,030 named intersections.
- Rate ranking threshold: minimum 30 crashes at an intersection
  over 5 years, to avoid small-sample artifacts.
- National comparison: ~11% U.S. urban hit-and-run share from the
  AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety 2018 research brief.
- TxDOT highway codes (IH0010, SL0375, FM0659, etc.) translated
  to friendly names (I-10, Loop 375, Zaragoza Rd) in published
  tables. Full translation table in the project's Python source.

LICENSE

Original TxDOT data is public and uncopyrightable.
915 Injury's analysis, cleaning, and tables are released under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Cite as:
  "915 Injury, El Paso Hit-and-Run Data Report, 2026."

QUESTIONS / CORRECTIONS / DEEPER CUTS

Email john@915injury.com. We're happy to:
- Share the full 700 MB raw CRIS extract (Dropbox or similar).
- Run a comparable cut for another Texas metro for head-to-head.
- Provide a statewide baseline if a reporter wants to compare
  El Paso's rate to Dallas, Houston, or San Antonio.

LAST UPDATED

2026-04-24. Refresh cadence: once per year after TxDOT's CRIS
processing backlog clears for the prior year.