Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Bartow County: daylight (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual figures record 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 1 death in 1 fatal crash in 2021. In 2022, the selection includes 4 deaths in 3 fatal crashes; in 2023, it includes 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes. The 2024 Annual Report File records 7 deaths in 3 fatal crashes and remains subject to revision. Among the supplied annual rows, 2024 has the largest death count, while 2020 has the largest fatal-crash count. These measures describe different quantities: people killed and distinct crashes containing those deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 10 deaths, people in the large truck account for 9 deaths, and nonoccupants account for 1 death in the selected Bartow County daylight crashes during 2020-2024. The other-vehicle category has the largest death count among the supplied person categories. These figures describe the people killed, rather than the number of vehicles involved. The nonoccupant category follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. Consequently, that category should not be read as referring exclusively to pedestrians or pedalcyclists. All categories remain within the selected fatal large-truck crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The supplied manner-of-collision rows assign 11 deaths to crashes whose first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, 5 deaths to angle crashes, and 4 deaths to rear-end crashes. These are death counts for the Bartow County daylight selection during 2020-2024, rather than counts of each collision type. The first category has the largest death count among these rows. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event, not every event in a crash. A motor vehicle stopped in traffic can still be in transport, so the category wording does not simply distinguish moving vehicles from stopped vehicles.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

The county table records all 20 selected deaths in Bartow County, identified by FIPS 13015. Assignment follows where the crash occurred, not where a person lived. For context, the supplied broader county measure is 31 deaths in all Bartow County large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. The corresponding daylight measure across metro Atlanta is 219 deaths during the same period. Those comparison populations differ from each other and from the county daylight selection. Because the table supplies only Bartow County, it provides no county ranking. The metro geography is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

I-75 is the recorded interstate route associated with 11 deaths in the selected Bartow County daylight large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. The route table uses an operational selection requiring ROUTE = 1 and an I-route identifier that can be parsed from TWAY_ID. Its death count therefore belongs to this specific county, lighting-condition and fatal-crash selection. It is not a count for the entire length of I-75, and the table does not inventory every road. The supplied route row also provides no basis for comparing interstate routes by traffic exposure or describing where the remaining selected deaths occurred.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 19 large-truck vehicles, including 13 truck-tractor vehicles, during 2020-2024. These vehicle totals must remain separate from the 20 people killed and the 15 fatal crashes in the Bartow County daylight selection. A large truck here is a medium or heavy truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds; buses and motor homes are excluded. Truck involvement does not establish fault. The truck-tractor figure counts vehicles among the included large trucks, rather than people killed in truck tractors or crashes assigned to that vehicle category.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Sources and limits

NHTSA FARS covers fatal traffic crashes involving a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public when an occupant or nonoccupant dies within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes are excluded. This page selects A_LT = 1 crashes in Bartow County, FIPS 13015, with LGT_COND = 1, and counts all people killed in them. Records for 2020 through 2023 come from Final Files; 2024 uses the provisional Annual Report File. No population rate, mileage denominator or traffic exposure denominator is supplied, so these counts and the stated share of metro deaths do not measure comparative risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

See also

• Georgia's two-year limit for truck accident injury claims

On related publications

• Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)