Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Fulton County: NHTSA weekend-period crashes (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 1 death in 1 fatal crash in 2020, followed by 4 deaths in 4 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selection contains 11 deaths in 10 fatal crashes. The figures for 2023 are 5 deaths in 4 fatal crashes, while 2024 records 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among the supplied annual rows, 2022 has the largest death count and fatal-crash count. The measures remain separate: deaths count people, while fatal crashes count distinct events containing those deaths. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File and may change.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 17 deaths in the selected Fulton County weekend-period crashes. The nonoccupant category contains 5 deaths, and people in the large truck account for 1 death. Among the supplied person-category rows, people in other vehicles have the largest death count. These categories describe the people killed, rather than the number of vehicles involved.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Nonoccupants follows the FARS A_PTYPE 3,4,5 grouping, which includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. It should not be read as a pedestrian-only category. Every person counted remains within the selected fatal crashes involving a large truck.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The manner-of-collision breakdown assigns 7 deaths to crashes whose first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport. Angle and rear-end collisions each account for 5 deaths. Sideswipe collisions account for 4 deaths, and head-on collisions account for 2 deaths. These are death counts associated with the recorded manner, rather than counts of collisions.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The first harmful event supplies the classification; the table does not describe every event within each crash. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. The listed categories do not establish why a crash happened or assign fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Fulton County is the only county row because the topic selects crashes recorded in that county. Its 23 selected deaths are assigned by crash location, regardless of where the people lived. The county figure therefore cannot be described as a count of Fulton County residents killed.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For 2020-2024, the supplied broader county total is 69 deaths in all Fulton County large-truck crashes. The corresponding metro weekend-period total is 128 deaths. These comparison counts have different scopes: the county total includes all large-truck-crash deaths, while the metro figure retains the weekend dimension across metro Atlanta.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Within the selected Fulton County weekend-period crashes, the recorded interstate rows show 6 deaths on I-285, 2 on I-75, 2 on I-85 and 1 on I-20. I-285 has the largest death count among these supplied route rows. This comparison concerns recorded deaths and does not measure traffic exposure or route risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A crash enters this interstate breakdown when ROUTE = 1 and TWAY_ID contains a parseable I-route. The rows describe that operational selection within the county topic. They do not cover every road, or deaths along the full length of any listed interstate outside metro Atlanta.^{[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. Of those large trucks, 16 were truck-tractor vehicles. These vehicle totals describe equipment involved in the selected fatal crashes; neither number is a death count or a count of distinct crashes. The truck-tractor figure is a subset of the large-truck vehicle figure.^{[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 large truck's involvement does not establish fault for the crash.^{[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 2020-2023 records use Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File is provisional.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A_DOW = 2 uses a weekend period extending into Friday evening and Monday morning, rather than a Saturday-Sunday split; unknown codes are excluded. Metro Atlanta means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, with 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. No mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied, so these counts do not support risk comparisons.^{[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)