Traffic & Transit

Southington Had 28 Injury Crashes In October

Police reported 28 crashes with injuries in Southington in October, according to state data.

SOUTHINGTON, CT — Police reported 28 crashes with injuries in Southington in October, six of them on Route 10, according to preliminary state crash data.

Nobody was killed or seriously hurt. The crashes injured 38 people: 18 had suspected minor injuries and 20 had possible injuries, according to police reports in the Connecticut Crash Data Repository at UConn.

Southington had 27 injury crashes in October 2025.

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The crashes

The 28 crashes included six on Route 10, four on Interstate 84, three on Route 322, two on Route 364 and two on Route 229. They injured 38 people, 18 with suspected minor injuries and 20 with possible injuries, according to the reports.

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The pattern

Nine of the 28 crashes were rear-end collisions, and in eight of them police cited the trailing driver for following too closely. Nine were angle crashes. Eight involved a single vehicle. Seventeen of the 28 happened in daylight, and all in clear or cloudy weather. By road: six on Route 10, four on Interstate 84, three on Route 322 and two on Route 364. No one has been killed in a crash in Southington this year, according to the data.

About the data

These figures are preliminary. Police reports for recent months are still being added to the state database, and counts often rise as they come in. Crashes that damaged only property aren't in the October figures yet, so this story covers crashes with injuries only.

Crash data from the Connecticut Crash Data Repository, University of Connecticut, as of Nov. 13, 2026.

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