Updated | South Carolina’s highways in 2025 weren’t the dieways they were in recent years. As of Dec. 31, 152 fewer people died in 2025 than the 1,032 who died the year before, according to preliminary data from the S.C. Department of Public Safety (DPS).
In 2025 across the state, at least 880 people died, which is also far fewer than the 1,038 in 2023 and the 1,081 people in 2022. Of those who died last year in traffic incidents, 152 were pedestrians (an annual increase of two deaths) and 137 were motorcyclists (up six deaths).
Part of the reason for the lower number of statewide deaths appeared to be the lower number of fatal vehicle crashes – from 946 wrecks in 2024 to 826 as of Dec. 29.
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