Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Cobb County: crashes with two motor vehicles on the police report (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 9 deaths in 7 selected fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, there were 8 deaths in 7 fatal crashes. The 2023 figures were 3 deaths in 2 fatal crashes, while 2024 recorded 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes. Among these supplied annual rows, 2020 had the highest death count. Death totals and fatal-crash totals measure different things: a selected crash can contain multiple deaths. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File and remain subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 18 deaths in the selected Cobb County crashes during 2020-2024. People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, and nonoccupants accounted for 3 deaths. Other-vehicle occupants therefore had the largest death count among the supplied person categories. These figures cover all people killed in the selected crashes, rather than truck occupants alone. The nonoccupant category follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. That grouping should be kept distinct from the count of motor vehicles appearing on the police report.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Rear-end collisions accounted for 14 deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows for the selected Cobb County crashes in 2020-2024. Angle collisions accounted for 4 deaths, and events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport also accounted for 4 deaths. Head-on collisions accounted for 3 deaths. These are death counts, not counts of collisions. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. The presence of two reported motor vehicles does not mean that the first harmful event must have been a collision between vehicles in transport.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Cobb County is the only county row in this selection, with 25 deaths assigned by crash location during 2020-2024. The row does not identify where the people who died lived. For context, Cobb County recorded 36 deaths in all large-truck crashes, while metro Atlanta recorded 277 deaths in large-truck crashes matching this topic's reported-vehicle-count dimension. Those comparison totals have different scopes from the selected county total. Metro Atlanta here means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA (CBSA 12060), comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The single county row provides no ranking against other counties.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Among the supplied interstate rows, I-75 had the largest selected death count, with 9 deaths during 2020-2024. I-20 and I-285 each recorded 2 deaths. These figures remain limited to the selected Cobb County fatal large-truck crashes with two reported motor vehicles. Route assignment requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route value in TWAY_ID. The table consequently describes records meeting that operational selection, rather than every road in the county. It also does not describe the full length of any listed interstate outside metro Atlanta or establish a comparison of route risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 22 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Of those large trucks, 10 were truck-tractor vehicles. These figures count vehicles, so neither figure should be read as a number of people killed or a number of fatal crashes. For this data, 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. A_LT = 1 selects crashes involving at least one large truck. Recorded involvement does not establish fault, and the death population includes people outside the 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 and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. It excludes nonfatal-only crashes. This selection uses Cobb County, A_LT = 1 and VE_TOTAL = 2; VE_TOTAL includes parked vehicles and differs from A_CT, the crash-configuration measure. Records for 2020 through 2023 use Final Files; 2024 uses the provisional Annual Report File. Counts follow crash location. No mileage, traffic-exposure or population-rate denominator is supplied. The reported 5.6% share instead uses all metro large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator.^{[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)