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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual figures record 5 deaths in 4 fatal crashes in 2020 and 5 deaths in 4 fatal crashes in 2021. For 2022, the selection contains 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes. The 2023 figures are 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes, followed by 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in 2024. Among the supplied annual rows, 2023 has the fewest deaths and fatal crashes. These measures count people and crash events separately. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File, so that year's entries remain subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths in the selected crashes, compared with 5 nonoccupant deaths and 3 deaths among people in the large truck. Other-vehicle occupants are therefore the largest death category among the supplied person-category rows. These are deaths throughout the selected crashes, rather than a count restricted to truck occupants.^{[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 not be read as a pedestrian-only count. The categories describe the people killed within this Gwinnett County dark-conditions selection during 2020-2024.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The manner-of-collision figures assign 9 deaths to crashes whose first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport. Rear-end collisions account for 8 deaths, angle collisions for 4 deaths, and head-on collisions for 1 death. Among these supplied rows, the category involving no collision with a motor vehicle in transport has the largest death count.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These entries count deaths, not collisions. FARS manner of collision describes the first harmful event, rather than every event in a crash. A motor vehicle in transport can include a vehicle stopped in traffic.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Gwinnett County is the only county row in this selection, with 22 deaths during 2020-2024. County assignment identifies where the crash occurred, not where a person lived. The broader county figure is 41 deaths in all Gwinnett County large-truck crashes, while the metro Atlanta dark-conditions figure is 209 deaths in large-truck crashes matching this topic dimension.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Those comparison counts have different geographic or selection boundaries. The supplied 4.9% share instead uses 448 deaths in all metro Atlanta large-truck crashes as its denominator. It is neither a share of the county total nor a share of the metro dark-conditions total.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The recorded interstate rows show 9 deaths associated with I-85 and 1 death associated with I-985 within the selected Gwinnett County crashes during 2020-2024. I-85 has the larger death count among these supplied route rows. Neither entry is a count of trucks or fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A crash enters this interstate classification when ROUTE = 1 and TWAY_ID contains a parseable I-route. The table therefore reflects a specific recorded-route selection. It does not inventory every road in the county or describe deaths along the entire length of either interstate. No route mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The 20 distinct selected fatal crashes contained 22 large-truck vehicles, including 13 truck-tractor vehicles. These vehicle counts describe trucks present in the crashes containing the selected deaths. They are separate measures from the 22 people killed and the number of crash events.^{[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. The crash population uses A_LT = 1, indicating involvement of at least one large truck. Truck involvement alone 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 when an occupant or nonoccupant dies within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes fall outside this census. This page uses 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 means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The county and lighting selector narrows that geography for this page. 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)