CONNECTICUT — More than half of 881 crashes in a six-year Halloween analysis occurred between 4 and 8 p.m., according to an October 29 NBC Connecticut report using data from UConn’s Connecticut Transportation Institute.
The outlet’s interactive map covers 4 p.m. on October 31 through 5 a.m. on November 1 for each year from 2020 through 2025. It classifies 636 crashes as property-damage-only, 242 as involving injuries and three as fatal. These are crash counts, not counts of people injured or killed.
The timing overlaps the hours when many families travel for Halloween activities. But the numbers alone do not establish that Halloween is more dangerous than an ordinary evening or that one community has a higher risk per trip. The analysis does not provide an exposure-adjusted comparison accounting for traffic and pedestrian volumes.
NBC also discusses a separate, longer data window. This report uses only the explicitly defined 2020–2025 map totals so the two periods are not combined. Eastern CT News has not independently downloaded the underlying crash records or verified town-level clusters in the interactive map.
With Halloween falling Saturday, the report offers statewide context for the evening’s traffic rather than a prediction of crashes. This AI-prepared article attributes the analysis to NBC Connecticut; it does not claim a new local crash or an independently calculated risk estimate.