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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 4 selected deaths in 4 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, there were 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes. The 2023 figures were 10 deaths in 6 fatal crashes, while 2024 recorded 10 deaths in 10 fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among the supplied annual rows, 2023 and 2024 share the largest death count, but their fatal-crash counts differ. These are fatal-only counts for the county darkness selection. 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 23 selected deaths, the largest count among the supplied person categories. Nonoccupants accounted for 9 deaths, and people in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths. Each category concerns people killed in the selected DeKalb County crashes during 2020-2024, rather than everyone involved or injured.^{[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 therefore not be read as a pedestrian-only count. The distribution describes who died within this fatal-crash selection; it supplies no exposure denominator for comparing the risk faced by different groups.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Rear-end events accounted for 14 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport accounted for 13 deaths. Angle events accounted for 5 deaths, and head-on events accounted for 3 deaths. These figures describe deaths during 2020-2024, rather than numbers of crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The classification refers to the first harmful event, so it does not describe every event within a crash sequence. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. These labels do not establish which vehicle caused the event or assign fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

The county table contains DeKalb County alone, with 35 selected deaths during 2020-2024. This is a county-specific selection within the metro geography, so the supplied county row provides no ranking against other counties. Assignment follows the location of the crash, regardless of where the people killed lived.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For context, DeKalb County recorded 55 deaths in all large-truck crashes during the period. Across metro Atlanta, large-truck crashes matching the dark-conditions dimension recorded 209 deaths. Those figures have different geographic or selection scopes from the county darkness count and should retain those distinctions when read alongside it.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Within the supplied interstate rows, I-20 recorded 12 selected deaths, I-285 recorded 11, and I-85 recorded 4 during 2020-2024. I-20 therefore has the largest death count among these listed routes. The figures remain limited to the selected DeKalb County fatal crashes in dark conditions, rather than deaths along each route's full length.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Route inclusion requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route in TWAY_ID. This operational selection does not represent every road. Failure to meet it is not a legal classification of a road as non-interstate, and the counts provide no route-specific traffic exposure comparison.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 32 large-truck vehicles, including 22 truck-tractor vehicles, during 2020-2024. These are vehicle counts. They are separate measures from the 35 people killed and the 31 distinct fatal crashes in the county darkness selection. The truck-tractor figure counts vehicles among those large trucks, rather than deaths of truck occupants.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

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 from that definition. A truck's involvement in a selected fatal crash does not establish fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Sources and limits

NHTSA FARS counts 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. The 2020 through 2023 records use Final Files; the provisional 2024 Annual Report File is subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Metro Atlanta means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. Counts follow crash location, not residence. No population rate, mileage denominator or traffic exposure denominator is supplied, so these death counts 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)