Crash records · Grover Beach · 2025

140 crashes in Grover Beach

Grover Beach police recorded 140 crashes inside the city in 2025. Thirty-four people were hurt. Six of those crashes involved someone on a bike or on foot. None involved an electric bike.

140crashes reported in Grover Beach in 2025
96%of them involved only motor vehicles, no bike and nobody on foot
0involved an electric bike, in a county that recorded 18

One year of crashes, drawn to scale

Every crash reported in the city last year, drawn end to end. The two coloured slivers at the right are the four involving a bicycle and the two involving someone walking. Everything to their left is motor vehicles hitting each other, hitting parked cars, or running off the road.

Who caused them

Driver · 122Bicyclist · 1Pedestrian · 1Other · 2

Officers marked 126 people at fault across the year. 122 of them, 97%, were driving a car. One was on a bike and one was walking.

Five years, same picture

Vehicle against vehicle One vehicle, an object, or an animal Bicycle On foot Someone killed

Two people died in Grover Beach over the five years: a motorcyclist hit by a drink-driver in 2021, and a pedestrian struck after dark in 2023 by a driver who was speeding. The two short bars in the middle are explained below.

The six, in full

Every crash in Grover Beach in 2025 that involved someone on a bike or on foot.

DateWhereWhoWhat happenedAt faultHurt
1Jan 7Mentone Ave at S Oak Park BlvdBicycleRear-ended a vehicleBicyclist, 541
2Feb 18S 13th St at Farroll RdBicycleStruck by a turning carDriver, 371
3May 31Longbranch Ave at S 14th StBicycleFell riding alone, no vehicleNot assigned1
4Aug 21S 12th St at Seabright AveBicycleDriver hit two teenagers and leftNot assigned0
5Oct 21W Grand Ave at N Oak Park BlvdOn footDriver struck a pedestrian and leftPedestrian, 391
6Dec 3Atlantic City Ave at 13th StOn footDriver ran a stop signDriver, 531

Five people were hurt in these six crashes. One was serious: a 49-year-old who came off her bike on Longbranch Avenue with no vehicle involved. Two of the six involved a driver who hit someone and drove away.

The e-bike question, answeredNot one electric bike appears in a Grover Beach crash report in 2025. This is not a gap in the paperwork. The reporting system has a separate code for electric bicycles, Grover Beach itself used it once in 2022, and San Luis Obispo County recorded eighteen last year. Every bicycle in the city in 2025 was logged as an ordinary bicycle. Whatever is worth worrying about on these streets, the crash record does not point at e-bikes.

Two years of this chart are missing dataGrover Beach police filed 54 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 this department is the only agency that files crash reports for the city. Those two short bars are a gap in the paperwork, not two safer years. Every other figure on this page is from 2025 and is unaffected.

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