Crime & Safety
July Accident Reports Released by Richmond Heights Police
Twenty percent of traffic accidents in the city happened on a Sunday, data show.

The recently posted three documents to its website that detail traffic accidents that happened in the city in July.
One ranks the number of accidents by location; another identifies the time of day and day of the week on which accidents happened; and the final file describes the severity of each accident.
Here are 10 numbers to know from those reports:
- 0 — Fatal accidents in Richmond Heights
- 70 — Total accidents to which the department responded
- 29 — Injuries that resulted from accidents
- 53 — Cases that involved only property damage
- $2.25 million — Estimated losses, in dollars, caused by lost productivity and expenses resulting from accidents in the city
- 20 — Percentage of accidents that happened on Sunday, the lowest-accident day of the week
- 10 — Percentage of accidents that happened between 7 and 7:59 a.m., noon and 12:59 p.m., 2 and 2:59 p.m., and 6 and 6:59 p.m., the highest-accident times of day
- 22 — Total number of accidents recorded by Richmond Heights police for Highway 40. It had the highest volume of accidents in July out of any road documented by the police.
- 7 — Total number of accidents recorded by Richmond Heights police for Hanley Road, which had the second-highest volume of accidents in July out of any road documented by the police
- 7 — Total number of accidents in which a person is suspected of having left the scene.
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