Crash records · Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach, Pismo Beach · 2021–2025
Over five years the three cities recorded 2,543 crashes. 888 people were hurt and 10 were killed. 146 of those crashes, one in eighteen, involved someone on a bike or on foot. Not one involved an electric bike.
Every crash in Arroyo Grande, Grover Beach, and Pismo Beach since 2021, drawn end to end. The slivers at the right are the 96 involving a bicycle and the 50 involving someone walking. Everything to their left is motor vehicles hitting each other, hitting parked cars, hitting fixed objects, or running off the road.
The same 146 crashes, measured three ways. Each bar is the whole of that measure for the three cities combined.
One crash in eighteen, one injury in seven, one death in two. This is not an argument that bikes are dangerous. It is the opposite. Four of those five deaths were people on foot struck by a driver, and the fifth was a cyclist who hit a fixed object with no vehicle involved. A person outside a car has no bumper and no airbag, so the same collision that costs two drivers an insurance claim costs a pedestrian their life. The danger in both halves of this page is the same: motor vehicles, driven by people, at speed.
276 crashes in 2025, 99 people hurt. Ten involved a bike or someone on foot, and none of the nine injuries was worse than minor.
Read the report140 crashes, 34 people hurt. Six involved a bike or someone on foot. Twelve involved a driver who hit something and drove away.
Read the report199 crashes, 73 people hurt. Thirteen involved a bike or someone on foot, five of them on Dolliver Street.
Read the report2025 unless noted. Deaths are the five-year total.
| City | Crashes | Injured | Bike | On foot | E‑bike | Driver at fault | Deaths 5yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Grande | 276 | 99 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 97.1% | 2 |
| Grover Beach | 140 | 34 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 96.8% | 2 |
| Pismo Beach | 199 | 73 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 95.8% | 6 |
| All three | 615 | 206 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 96.6% | 10 |
Why Oceano and the Dunes are not hereOceano is unincorporated, so the state files its crashes under the county rather than as a city and they cannot be cleanly separated. A rough estimate by map coordinates gives 67 crashes and 17 injuries in 2025, one of them a bicycle. Separately, the Oceano Dunes state park district recorded 142 crashes with 153 people injured and 2 killed in 2025, more injuries than Grover Beach and Oceano put together. Those are off-road vehicle crashes in the recreation area, a different problem with different answers, and they are excluded from every figure here.
One gap worth knowing aboutGrover Beach police filed 54 crash reports in 2023 and 57 in 2024, against roughly 140 in each of 2021, 2022, and 2025. Nothing in the surrounding county moved that way, and that department is the only agency filing for the city. Those two years are a gap in the paperwork rather than two safer years, and the five-year totals on this page are short by whatever went unrecorded.