Colorado roads are getting safer for drivers and most everyone else.
Colorado State Patrol reports a 21-percent decline in road fatalities through mid-April, what CSP Col. Matthew Packard considers promising.
“This progress is hopeful and underscores the efforts made by legislation and enforcement to improve roadway safety. It also signals that more individual drivers are using safe behaviors,” Packard said in a news release. “However, every fatality is preventable, and more work can be done.”
Packard was especially proud to report a 26% decrease in deaths related to speeding and a remarkable 70% decrease in teen driver deaths. Cyclists and pedestrians are staying safer too.
- 130 total fatalities (as of mid-April), down from 164 in 2024
- 70% decrease in teen driver fatalities
- 26% decrease in fatalities involving speeding
- 22% decrease in fatalities involving distracted drivers
- 19% decrease in fatalities involving impaired drivers
- 17.5% decrease in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities
- 12.5% decrease in unbuckled fatalities
- 12.5% decrease in motorcyclist fatalities
Road fatalities in seven counties fell by a combined 38%, including Jefferson County at the east end of the I-70 mountain corridor. El Paso County improved the most, slashing its fatality rate in half.
Two counties confirmed more deaths than this time last year, including Mesa County on the west end of the mountain corridor, where the rate doubled (two in 2024 to four in 2025).