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Cruise Self-Driving Crashes

156 crashes involving Cruise's self-driving vehicles were reported to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between July 2021 and November 2024, 5.1% of all reported self-driving crashes. In 31% of them the Cruise vehicle was stopped or parked; 17% involved a reported injury.

Crashes reported: 156
Share of all: 5.1%; #3 of 35 companies
Vehicle stopped or parked: 31%
Injury reported: 27
Serious or fatal: 3
Cities: 9

Crashes per month

Cruise crashes reported to NHTSA per month

Peak: August 2023, 31 crashes

View as a table

Month	Crashes
July 2021	2
August 2021	2
September 2021	0
October 2021	1
November 2021	3
December 2021	3
January 2022	2
February 2022	1
March 2022	3
April 2022	6
May 2022	1
June 2022	3
July 2022	4
August 2022	2
September 2022	2
October 2022	0
November 2022	0
December 2022	4
January 2023	0
February 2023	3
March 2023	10
April 2023	8
May 2023	8
June 2023	9
July 2023	17
August 2023	31
September 2023	16
October 2023	11
November 2023	0
December 2023	0
January 2024	0
February 2024	0
March 2024	0
April 2024	0
May 2024	0
June 2024	1
July 2024	0
August 2024	0
September 2024	0
October 2024	1
November 2024	2

A rising line usually means a growing fleet: more vehicles and more miles, in more cities. Without the miles, the count alone cannot say whether Cruise's vehicles crash more or less often over time.

Most serious injury reported

Serious injury1.9% · 3 crashes
Moderate injury3.8% · 6 crashes
Minor injury11.5% · 18 crashes
No injuries reported79.5% · 124 crashes
Unknown3.2% · 5 crashes

What the Cruise vehicle collided with

Another vehicle83.3% · 130 crashes
Other7.1% · 11 crashes
Cyclist4.5% · 7 crashes
Pedestrian1.9% · 3 crashes
Fixed object1.9% · 3 crashes
Scooter, skateboard or other road user0.6% · 1 crashes
Animal0.6% · 1 crashes

Who could take the wheel

Remote operator only78.2% · 122 crashes
Safety driver on board21.8% · 34 crashes

Where they happened

San Francisco, CA 118 crashes
Austin, TX 23 crashes
Houston, TX 7 crashes
Tempe, AZ 3 crashes
Chandler, AZ 1 crash
Mesa, AZ 1 crash
Phoenix, AZ 1 crash
San Frabcisco, CA 1 crash
Santa Monica, CA 1 crash

Other companies

Waymo 2,382 crashes
Zoox 170 crashes
Avride 84 crashes
May Mobility 48 crashes
Tesla 36 crashes
Motional 28 crashes
Aurora 24 crashes
Argo AI 20 crashes

Every company, ranked.

How to read these numbers

A count is not a rate. A company that drives more miles reports more crashes. NHTSA does not publish the miles behind these reports, so nothing here is divided by distance, and a longer bar does not mean a less safe car.
Being in a crash is not causing it. The reports do not assign fault, and many of these crashes happened while the self-driving vehicle was stopped or parked, often hit from behind.
Companies file these reports themselves. NHTSA publishes them as filed: they may be incomplete or unverified, injuries are as alleged, and some details are withheld as confidential business information.
One crash, one row. A crash can get several reports, from updates or from more than one company (an operator and its fleet partner); we count it once, using NHTSA's own incident ID.
The rules changed in June 2025. NHTSA amended what must be reported and when, so counts before and after that month are not directly comparable.
Driver assistance is not here. Crashes with systems like Tesla Autopilot or GM Super Cruise in customers' cars are a separate NHTSA dataset with different rules. 15 reports filed in the self-driving file that name a driver-assistance system are left out.