Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Gwinnett County: NHTSA weekday-period crashes (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 9 deaths in 7 fatal crashes in 2020 and 8 deaths in 7 fatal crashes in 2021. For 2022, the selection contains 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes; 2023 also records 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes. The 2024 figures are 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes. Among these supplied annual rows, 2020 has the largest death count, while 2020 and 2021 share the largest fatal-crash count. These are separate measures for the same county and weekday-period selection. 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 22 selected deaths, compared with 4 nonoccupant deaths and 2 deaths among people in the large truck. These categories describe people killed in the selected Gwinnett County crashes during 2020-2024, not the number of vehicles involved. 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 as a count limited to pedestrians or pedalcyclists. People in other vehicles have the largest death count among the supplied person-category rows. The overall population includes all people killed in the selected crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Rear-end events account for 11 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport account for 9 deaths. Angle events account for 5, sideswipe events for 2, and the other category for 1. Each figure counts deaths during 2020-2024 within the county weekday-period selection, rather than crashes of that type. The classification describes the first harmful event, not every event in a crash. A motor vehicle stopped in traffic can still be in transport, so that term does not simply distinguish moving vehicles from stationary ones.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Gwinnett County is the only county row supplied for this selection, with 28 deaths during 2020-2024. Those deaths are assigned by where the crashes occurred, not where the people lived. For context, the supplied count for all large-truck-crash deaths in Gwinnett County is 41, while the count for metro Atlanta large-truck-crash deaths matching the weekday-period dimension is 320. These figures have different selection boundaries and should retain their respective labels. Metro Atlanta here means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The county table provides no comparison ranking across those counties.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The recorded interstate rows list 10 selected deaths for I-85, 1 for I-86 and 1 for I-985 during 2020-2024. I-85 has the largest death count among these supplied route rows. Inclusion in this table requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route identifier in TWAY_ID. The route labels reflect that operational selection within the Gwinnett County weekday-period crashes. They do not describe deaths along the full routes outside metro Atlanta, and the table does not cover every road. Failure to meet this selection is not, by itself, a legal determination that a road is non-interstate.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 27 large-truck vehicles, including 13 truck-tractor vehicles. These are vehicle counts within the 2020-2024 selection, not counts of deaths or distinct crashes. The large-truck definition covers medium or heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds and excludes buses and motor homes. A_LT = 1 identifies a crash involving at least one large truck; that involvement does not establish fault. The truck-tractor figure describes vehicles among the counted large trucks, while the person-category figures elsewhere describe the people killed. These measures answer different questions about the selected crashes.^{[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. This selection uses FARS Final Files for 2020 through 2023 and the provisional 2024 Annual Report File. The A_DOW weekday period is not a simple Monday-Friday calendar grouping: it runs from Monday 6 a.m. to Friday 5:59 p.m., excluding unknown classifications. No mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied, and no population rate is provided. The counts describe recorded fatal outcomes within the selection, not comparative travel 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)