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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual counts distinguish people killed from the fatal crashes containing those deaths. In 2020, the selection recorded 8 deaths in 8 fatal crashes. In 2021, it recorded 13 deaths in 13 fatal crashes. The 2022 figures were 16 deaths in 12 fatal crashes, the largest annual death count among the supplied years.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

In 2023, there were 8 deaths in 7 fatal crashes; in 2024, there were 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes. The 2024 Annual Report File remains subject to revision. These annual totals do not measure changes in traffic exposure or establish changes in crash risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 43 deaths in the selected Fulton County crashes during 2020-2024. The other supplied categories were nonoccupants, with 3 deaths, and people in the large truck, with 2 deaths. Among these person categories, people in other vehicles had the largest death count.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The nonoccupant category follows the FARS A_PTYPE grouping and includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. It should not be read as a count exclusively of pedestrians or pedalcyclists. All categories remain within the same fatal-crash selection, and they describe people killed rather than vehicles involved or separate crash events.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The collision categories classify the first harmful event in the selected crashes. Rear-end events accounted for 17 deaths, followed by angle events with 14 deaths, head-on events with 8 deaths and sideswipe events with 5 deaths. The category not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport accounted for 4 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These are death counts associated with the recorded manner of collision, not counts of each collision type. The police-report vehicle total and first-harmful-event classification measure different features. Including two reported motor vehicles does not require that the first harmful event be a collision between vehicles in transport.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

The county selection is Fulton County, identified by FIPS 13121, and its supplied row contains 48 deaths during 2020-2024. Assignment is based on where the crashes happened, not where the people killed lived. The county table contains no other county rows from which to establish a county ranking.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For context, all Fulton County large-truck crashes accounted for 69 deaths, while metro Atlanta large-truck crashes matching this two-reported-vehicle dimension accounted for 277 deaths. Those figures describe different geographic and selection scopes. Metro Atlanta here follows the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Among the supplied interstate rows, I-285 had the largest selected death count, with 9 deaths. I-75 recorded 4 deaths, while I-20 and I-85 each recorded 3 deaths. These figures cover deaths in the selected Fulton County fatal large-truck crashes during 2020-2024, not totals for those routes throughout metro Atlanta or beyond.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The route selection requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable interstate identifier in TWAY_ID. Consequently, the table describes records meeting that operational selection. It does not inventory every road, measure the number of vehicles using each interstate or support a comparison of travel risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 45 large-truck vehicles. Among those large trucks, 28 were truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures count vehicles within the selected crashes; neither is a death count or a count of distinct fatal crashes. The truck-tractor figure describes vehicles within the large-truck total.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For this dataset, 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. Large-truck involvement identifies the crash population but does not establish fault. The vehicle counts do not describe the number of truck occupants killed.^{[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 dying within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes are excluded. This selection requires large-truck involvement, Fulton County and VE_TOTAL = 2. VE_TOTAL includes parked vehicles and differs from the NHTSA A_CT crash-configuration measure.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2020 through 2023 records use FARS 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 metro share compares death counts, not the likelihood of a fatal crash.^{[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)