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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual figures place 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 8 deaths in 8 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selected crashes contained 13 deaths across 11 fatal crashes, the largest annual death count and fatal-crash count among the supplied years. The counts were 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in 2023 and 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes in 2024. Each annual row retains the Fulton County and recorded-light-condition selection. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File, so that year's counts remain subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 23 deaths in the selected Fulton County crashes during 2020-2024. The other supplied person-category row records 8 nonoccupant deaths. Here, nonoccupants follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. That category therefore should not be read as a count limited to pedestrians or pedalcyclists. The person classifications describe those who died within the selected large-truck crashes. They do not count everyone involved or everyone injured, and the selection does not restrict fatalities to people riding in the large trucks themselves.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Rear-end collisions account for 10 deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Crashes classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport account for 8 deaths, followed by angle collisions with 6, sideswipe collisions with 4 and head-on collisions with 3. These are deaths during 2020-2024 in the selected Fulton County crashes, rather than counts of collisions. Manner of collision characterizes the first harmful event. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic, so the classification cannot be interpreted simply as whether a vehicle was moving.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

The county table records 31 deaths in Fulton County because the topic selects crashes located in that county. Across 2020-2024, Fulton County had 69 deaths in all large-truck crashes, while metro Atlanta had 209 deaths in large-truck crashes matching this topic's dark-condition selection. Those comparison counts have different geographic or selection scopes. Metro Atlanta here means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The county assignment identifies where a crash occurred; it does not establish where any person who died lived.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Among the supplied interstate rows, I-285 records 8 deaths, I-85 records 4, and I-20 and I-75 each record 3 during 2020-2024. I-285 has the largest selected death count within those listed routes. The route selection requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route designation in TWAY_ID. These figures remain limited to the selected Fulton County crashes and do not describe the full length of any interstate. The table also does not cover every road. A road's omission from this operational interstate selection is not a determination of its legal classification.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 29 large-truck vehicles, including 19 truck-tractor vehicles, during 2020-2024. Those figures count vehicles, separately from the death and fatal-crash measures elsewhere on the page. 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. The truck-tractor figure describes vehicles among the recorded large trucks, rather than an additional death category. Large-truck involvement establishes inclusion in this crash population, but involvement alone does not establish fault for a crash or its consequences.^{[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. This fatal-only scope excludes nonfatal-only crashes. The 2020 through 2023 data use Final Files; 2024 uses the provisional Annual Report File. Counts follow crash location rather than residence. The supplied 6.9% share uses all metro Atlanta large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator, not only deaths matching the dark-condition selection. No population rate, mileage denominator or traffic exposure denominator is supplied, so these counts do not establish 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)