Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Bartow County: NHTSA weekday-period crashes (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual figures show 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selection contains 6 deaths in 5 fatal crashes. The figures for 2023 are 4 deaths in 4 fatal crashes, and the provisional 2024 figures are also 4 deaths in 4 fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among these annual rows, 2020 and 2022 share the highest death count. Their fatal-crash counts differ, illustrating why deaths and crashes must remain separate measures. Every annual row applies the same Bartow County weekday-period and large-truck selectors.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 11 deaths in the selected Bartow County crashes during 2020-2024. People in the large truck account for 9 deaths, and the nonoccupant category contains 2 deaths. Among the supplied person-category rows, people in other vehicles have the largest death count. The population therefore extends beyond occupants of large trucks.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The nonoccupant category follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. It should not be read as a count solely of pedestrians or pedalcyclists. These categories describe people killed within the selected crashes, rather than separate crash totals.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The manner-of-collision breakdown assigns deaths according to the first harmful event in the selected crashes. For 2020-2024, the supplied rows show 8 deaths under not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, 7 under angle, 6 under rear-end and 1 under head-on. Not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport has the largest death count among these rows.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These are counts of people killed, not counts of collisions of each type. A motor vehicle stopped in traffic can still qualify as a vehicle in transport. The categories describe the recorded event and do not establish fault or explain its cause.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Bartow County is the only county row in this selection, with 22 deaths during 2020-2024. The county assignment identifies where the crashes occurred, rather than where the people killed lived. Because the topic selects Bartow County in advance, this table does not provide a ranking across metro Atlanta counties.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For context, Bartow County recorded 31 deaths in all large-truck crashes during 2020-2024, while the metro Atlanta weekday-period measure contains 320 deaths. Those comparison populations differ from each other and from the selected county population. Metro Atlanta here means 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

The recorded interstate row shows 9 deaths on I-75 within the selected Bartow County weekday-period large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. This is a death count associated with the recorded route, not a count of trucks or fatal crashes. It does not describe I-75 throughout its full length or outside the selected county.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For this table, an interstate record must have ROUTE = 1 and a parseable I-route identifier in TWAY_ID. The resulting table is limited to that operational selection. Records outside it are not thereby assigned a legal road classification, and the supplied route row does not inventory every road involved.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 25 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Of those large trucks, 20 were truck-tractor vehicles. These vehicle totals describe equipment involved in the selected crashes; they are separate from the 22 people killed and the 21 distinct fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For this topic, a large truck is a medium or heavy truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds. Buses and motor homes are excluded from that definition. The A_LT = 1 selector identifies crashes involving at least one qualifying large truck. Recorded involvement alone does not establish responsibility for a crash.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Sources and limits

NHTSA FARS records 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 outside this census. The figures use FARS Final Files for 2020 through 2023 and the provisional 2024 Annual Report File, which remains subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A_DOW = 1 uses a continuous weekday period, rather than a simple Monday-Friday calendar grouping; unknown A_DOW records are excluded. Counts follow crash location. No population, mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied, so these figures provide neither a population rate nor an exposure-based risk comparison.^{[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)