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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 12 selected deaths in 8 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 9 deaths in 9 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selection contains 8 deaths in 7 fatal crashes. The remaining annual entries are 4 deaths in 3 fatal crashes in 2023 and 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes in 2024.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Deaths and fatal crashes are separate measures: the death column counts people, while the crash column counts distinct events containing those 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 account for 28 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied person categories for 2020-2024. Nonoccupants account for 5 deaths, and people in the large truck account for 2 deaths. These categories describe the people killed in the selected Fulton County daylight crashes, 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 solely as a pedestrian category. The selection includes deaths outside the large truck as well as deaths inside it.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Among the supplied manner-of-collision rows, angle events account for the largest selected death count, with 14 deaths in 2020-2024. Rear-end events account for 7 deaths. Head-on events and events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport each account for 6 deaths. Sideswipe events account for 2 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These figures count people killed, not the number of collisions in each category. The classification describes the first harmful event, rather than every event within a crash. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic, so the term does not require continuous movement.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

The county table assigns all 35 selected deaths in 2020-2024 to Fulton County because that county is part of the selection itself. Assignment follows where the crash occurred, not where a person lived. The table therefore describes the geographic scope of this daylight selection; it does not provide a ranking across metro counties.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For context, all Fulton County large-truck crashes account for 69 deaths during 2020-2024. Across metro Atlanta, large-truck crashes matching the daylight dimension account for 219 deaths. These contextual totals have different selection boundaries from the Fulton County daylight count and from the overall metro total.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The supplied interstate rows record 5 selected deaths on I-285, 1 on I-75 and 1 on I-85 during 2020-2024. I-285 has the largest selected death count among these listed routes. These are deaths in the Fulton County daylight selection, not counts of fatal crashes or totals for each interstate'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. The table covers records meeting that operational selection and does not represent every road. Its figures do not establish relative route risk because no mileage or traffic exposure denominator is supplied.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 31 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Among those large trucks, 16 were truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures count vehicles: neither is a count of people killed or a count of distinct crashes. Truck-tractors are reported here as a subset of the large trucks.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For these statistics, 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. Recorded involvement establishes that a qualifying truck was present in the crash; it does not establish fault.^{[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. The records use FARS Final Files for 2020 through 2023 and the provisional 2024 Annual Report File.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Metro Atlanta here is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. Counts follow crash location. The supplied metro death total supports the reported death share, but no population rate, mileage denominator or traffic exposure denominator is supplied for this county daylight selection.^{[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)