Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Cobb County: dark conditions (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 5 selected deaths in 3 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 1 death in 1 fatal crash in 2021. In 2022, the selection contains 6 deaths in 5 fatal crashes; in 2023, it contains 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes. The 2024 figures are 7 deaths in 6 fatal crashes. Among the supplied annual rows, 2024 has the largest death count and fatal-crash count. Its figures use the provisional Annual Report File. These counts describe fatalities and crashes separately, without an exposure denominator for comparing annual risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 11 selected deaths, nonoccupants account for 9, and people in the large truck account for 1 during 2020-2024. Among these supplied person categories, people in other vehicles have the largest death count. The nonoccupant category follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. It should therefore not be treated as a count limited to pedestrians or pedalcyclists. These categories describe people killed within the selected Cobb County crashes. They do not count every person involved, and the selection is not restricted to truck occupants.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The manner-of-collision breakdown assigns 9 selected deaths to rear-end crashes, 8 to events recorded as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, 3 to angle crashes, and 1 to head-on crashes. Rear-end has the largest death count among the supplied categories. These are deaths associated with each category, rather than counts of crashes of that type. FARS manner of collision describes the first harmful event. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic, so the transport distinction does not simply separate moving vehicles from stationary vehicles. These labels do not establish fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Cobb County is the only county row in this selection, with 21 deaths in dark-condition large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. County assignment follows where each crash occurred, not where the people killed lived. The broader Cobb County total is 36 deaths in large-truck crashes across conditions. Across metro Atlanta, the corresponding dark-condition measure contains 209 deaths. These figures have different geographic or condition scopes and should retain those distinctions. The supplied county table supports describing Cobb County's selected count, but it supplies no other county rows from which to rank counties by deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The recorded interstate rows associate I-75 with 13 selected deaths, I-285 with 2, and I-20 with 1 during 2020-2024. I-75 has the largest selected death count among these supplied route rows. Interstate identification requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route entry in TWAY_ID. The resulting table describes that operational route selection within the Cobb County dark-condition crashes. It does not cover every road or describe each interstate's full length outside metro Atlanta. The figures count deaths, not vehicles or crashes, and no route mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied for a risk comparison.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 17 large-truck vehicles, including 12 truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures count vehicles rather than deaths or fatal crashes; truck tractors are included among the reported large trucks. For this data, a large truck is a medium or heavy truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds, excluding buses and motor homes. Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. The vehicle counts describe trucks present in the selected fatal crashes, while the death totals cover all people killed in those crashes, regardless of whether they occupied a truck.^{[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, with an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes are excluded. This extraction selects A_LT = 1 crashes in Cobb County, FIPS 13067, with LGT_COND in 2,3. Records for 2020 through 2023 use Final Files; 2024 uses the provisional Annual Report File, subject to revision. Metro Atlanta follows the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. No population rate or mileage-based risk measure is supplied.^{[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)