Crime in Sugar Land dropped in 2016, bringing the city’s crime rate to its lowest level in 20 years, while car accidents have increased since 2012, according to the police department’s annual report.

Sugar Land’s violent crime rate is a fraction of state and national averages, with the city recording a violent crime rate of .89 in 2015, compared to 4.11 for Texas and 3.73 for the U.S., according to the recently released report.

The police department’s clearance rate is also better than state and national averages, the report shows. In 2016 the department cleared nearly 74 percent of violent crimes compared to only 46 percent nationally and 41.9 percent across the state.

However, clearance rates for property crimes are far lower, with the city clearing 27.7 percent of property crimes, compared to 17 percent for Texas and 19.4 percent nationally in 2016.

“There are typically no leads in a property crime,” Police Chief Douglas Brinkley told Sugar Land City Council Members in a presentation this week. “In a violent crime a victim can give you some information.”

The report shows that car crashes resulting in an injury have remained fairly constant over the past five years. But car crashes that did not result in injury have increased, from 1,302 in 2012 to 1,693 last year, reaching a peak of 1,820 in 2015, according to the report. Two accidents resulted in two deaths in 2016.

The most common factor in car crashes in 2016 was speeding, the report shows. Sugar Land policed handed out over 7,500 speeding tickets last year and issued another 1,050 warnings to people who’d gotten pulled over for speeding, according to the report.

Meanwhile another 562 tickets were issued last year for speeding in a school zone.

“That’s a scary stat[istic],” Council Member Mary Joyce said at the meeting.