This week in the CHP's San Luis Obispo area

From Wednesday, October 21 to Tuesday, October 27, the CHP listed 120 collisions in the area of the CHP's San Luis Obispo dispatch centre, 25 with an injury reported. The most were on Wednesday (27). The CHP areas with the most: San Luis Obispo, Templeton, Santa Maria, Buellton.

Collisions listed
120
Collisions listed
Injury reported
25
Injury reported
Most (27)
Wednesday
Most (27)
Road with the most (44)
US-101
Road with the most (44)

Day by day

Each day links to its replay. Counted by when a collision first appeared on the list, in California time.

By hour

12 am6 am12 pm6 pm

The week's collisions by the hour they first appeared on the list. The most in one hour: 7 am to 8 am (11).

Roads with the most

  1. US-10144
  2. SR-112
  3. SR-1545
  4. SR-1354
  5. W Tefft St4
  6. SR-1663
  7. Avila Beach Dr2
  8. E Clark Ave2
  9. Harris Grade Rd2
  10. SR-412

Each collision counted once, on the first freeway or highway the CHP names (else the first street), so a crash at an interchange counts for one road; a freeway's own page counts every collision that names it. Busy freeways always have the most: a count, not a risk.

Listed again and again

No spot had five or more separate collisions listed this week.

Collisions listed within about 300 m of each other, counting reports at least 10 minutes apart (dispatch sometimes lists one crash twice).

By CHP area

  • San Luis Obispo45
  • Templeton32
  • Santa Maria24
  • Buellton16
  • SL3

The areas as the CHP's list names them: its Area offices, and Freeway Service Patrol beats (“FSP”).

Every dispatch centre's week: all of California.

What this counts

Every collision on the CHP's live list, counted on the day it first appeared there, for the 7 full days before today. We read the list about every minute and keep each collision once. These are first reports from CHP dispatch, and only the crashes the CHP handles: freeways, state highways and roads outside city limits.

A stretch with no reading of the list is said as such: a collision that came and went in it isn't in the count. Busy roads have the most collisions because they carry the most traffic; we have no traffic counts, so nothing here is a rate or a risk. Rebuilt every hour.

Watch the day hour by hour: replay today. Crashes reported over years, by city: crash statistics.

Source: CHP live incident list (cad.chp.ca.gov), logged by Safe Streets Map