Does a report mean the vehicle was at fault?

No. Operators must file for any crash their vehicle was involved in, including being struck from behind while stopped. The count is of filings, not of blame; the narrative of each report, where NHTSA has not redacted it, says what happened.

Is this the same as the register's case count?

No. The register's cases are incidents verified from at least two independent sources or a regulator record, mostly the ones with an injury or a consequence. The NHTSA file is every filing the operator made, mostly minor. The two are linked where they describe the same crash.

Can I reuse these numbers?

Yes. The counts are CC BY 4.0: cite The Machine Record with a link to this page. The underlying rows can be downloaded as CSV from the SGO table and the register from the data page.

NHTSA Standing General Order file

How many Waymo crashes were reported in 2026?

Waymo filed 788 crash reports with NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for incidents dated 2026, counted at the latest version of each report. Of these, 78 allege an injury and 1 a fatality. The file as held here was refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07; its latest incident is dated September 2026, and operators have up to a month to file, so the most recent months are still filling.

A report is the operator's own filing under NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01. It records that a crash happened and who was involved; it does not establish fault, and most filings describe low-speed contact with nobody hurt.

By month of incident

January 2026100 reports
February 202674 reports
March 2026114 reports
April 2026114 reports
May 2026101 reports
June 2026107 reports
July 202696 reports
August 202672 reports
September 202610 reports

By highest injury severity alleged

Fatality1 report
Serious W/ Hospitalization4 reports
Moderate W/ Hospitalization6 reports
Moderate W/O Hospitalization3 reports
Minor W/ Hospitalization16 reports
Minor W/O Hospitalization48 reports
Property Damage. No Injured Reported692 reports
No Injured Reported9 reports
Unknown9 reports

By state

CA454 reports
TX127 reports
AZ108 reports
GA46 reports
FL29 reports
TN10 reports
PA5 reports
CO4 reports
NV2 reports
DC2 reports

Crash with

Passenger Car256 reports
SUV210 reports
Pickup Truck86 reports
Heavy Truck69 reports
Other, see Narrative53 reports
Van29 reports
Other Fixed Object28 reports
Bus27 reports
Motorcycle6 reports
Animal5 reports

How this was counted

Counted from NHTSA's Standing General Order files (the current files and the 2021-2025 archive) as loaded into the register, one row per report at its latest version. A report an operator later amended counts once, at its amended severity.

"Injury" means any severity the operator ticked other than unknown, no injury or property damage only; "fatality" is the operator's own Fatality box. Incidents are reports grouped by NHTSA's same_incident_id, so a crash filed by two entities counts once.

The incident date in the current files is given to the month, so counts by month and year follow the month NHTSA published, and a crash on the last day of a month can sit in the next one.

NHTSA's 2021-2025 archive used shorter severity labels (Minor, Moderate, Serious, No Injuries Reported) than the current files; both sets appear in the breakdown as NHTSA wrote them.

Data as of 2026-11-07. Numbers on this page are computed from the register's database on each visit and are CC BY 4.0; cite this page. Rules on the methodology page, exports on the data page.

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What people ask about this number

How many Waymo crashes were reported in 2026?: Waymo filed 788 crash reports with NHTSA under Standing General Order 2021-01 for incidents dated 2026, counted at the latest version of each report. Of these, 78 allege an injury and 1 a fatality. The file as held here was refreshed from NHTSA on 2026-11-07; its latest incident is dated September 2026, and operators have up to a month to file, so the most recent months are still filling.
Does a report mean the vehicle was at fault?: No. Operators must file for any crash their vehicle was involved in, including being struck from behind while stopped. The count is of filings, not of blame; the narrative of each report, where NHTSA has not redacted it, says what happened.
Is this the same as the register's case count?: No. The register's cases are incidents verified from at least two independent sources or a regulator record, mostly the ones with an injury or a consequence. The NHTSA file is every filing the operator made, mostly minor. The two are linked where they describe the same crash.
Can I reuse these numbers?: Yes. The counts are CC BY 4.0: cite The Machine Record with a link to this page. The underlying rows can be downloaded as CSV from the SGO table and the register from the data page.

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