Accidental Drive-Thru
accidentaldrivethru.com · Columbus, Ohio · how this is counted
Sourced from police blotter, local news, and one very tired glazier
Crashcon
Reading the wire…
CBUS SAFETY BOARD
MONITORING

Days since a car crashed into a building in Columbus

0
0
0
plus 00:00:00 since
Fire runs, 2023279
Fire runs, 2022313
On this board
Longest quiet stretch
OPEN
Counter runs from the most recent crash we could source. Columbus has very likely beaten this board since.
The local termCarikazeColumbus coinage, tracked on Instagram as @cbuscarikaze
Every1.3 daysColumbus Fire is dispatched to a vehicle-into-structure run
Media-tracked, 202571counted by journalist Paul Meara — a fraction of the fire runs
Bollard specASTM F3016rated to stop 10–30 mph. Most storefronts have none

Where they land

Every crash this board has sourced pinned to a street address pinned to a neighborhood Yellow outline is the Columbus city limit — the ragged edge is annexation, not bad drawing.

Most-hit areas

    What gets hit

      Hit more than once

        What time of day

        Incidents logged per month

        Only what this board has sourced — real totals run higher. Paul Meara counted 71 in 2025 alone.

        Incident log — Columbus, 2026

        Real, sourced incidents, newest first. Not a complete list — nobody has one.

        DateTimeTargetCauseWhat happenedSource