Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: First harmful event not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual figures distinguish people killed from fatal crashes containing those deaths. In 2020, the selection contained 25 deaths in 24 fatal crashes; in 2021, it contained 16 deaths in 16 fatal crashes. The 2022 figures were 34 deaths in 34 fatal crashes, the highest annual death count among the supplied years.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For 2023, the records show 24 deaths in 23 fatal crashes. For 2024, they show 25 deaths in 21 fatal crashes. The 2020 through 2023 records come from FARS Final Files, while the provisional 2024 Annual Report File remains subject to revision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

Nonoccupants accounted for 69 deaths in the selected metro Atlanta crashes during 2020-2024. People in the large truck accounted for 31 deaths, and people in other vehicles accounted for 24 deaths. Among these supplied person categories, nonoccupants had the largest death count. These are counts of people killed, rather than counts of vehicles or crashes.^{[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 as a pedestrian-only category. The population throughout this breakdown includes all people killed in the selected large-truck crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

All 124 selected deaths appear under the first-harmful-event category not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport. The operational selector is attribute code 0, labeled Not Collision With Motor Vehicle In-Transport. That criterion narrows the fatal large-truck-crash records to the event classification used for this topic.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event, rather than providing a complete account of a crash. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. The supplied category does not identify a cause, establish fault, or provide a breakdown of the specific events within this selection.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

DeKalb County recorded 20 selected deaths during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the supplied county rows. Bartow County and Fulton County each recorded 14, followed by Clayton County with 12, Gwinnett County with 11, and Cobb County with 10. Henry County recorded 8 selected deaths and Douglas County recorded 5.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Each county figure assigns deaths to the county where the crash happened. It does not count county residents killed elsewhere. The county table describes the distribution of selected deaths by location; without population, mileage, or traffic exposure denominators, it does not establish comparative crash risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Among the supplied interstate rows, I-75 had the largest selected death count, with 22 deaths during 2020-2024. I-285 recorded 18, I-85 recorded 12, and I-20 recorded 11. The remaining supplied routes were I-575 with 2 selected deaths and I-675 with 1. These figures count deaths, not fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Route selection requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route in TWAY_ID. The table covers recorded routes within metro Atlanta, not every road or the full length of each interstate. Its counts provide no traffic exposure denominator for comparing the risk associated with travel on these routes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 121 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Among those large trucks, 70 were truck-tractor vehicles. These vehicle totals measure a different part of the records from the 124 people killed and the 118 distinct fatal crashes; they are not interchangeable counts.^{[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 establishes inclusion in the crash population, but involvement itself does not establish fault for the crash.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Sources and limits

Metro Atlanta here means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. 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.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Records require A_LT=1 and the specified first-harmful-event selector. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File accompanies Final Files for 2020 through 2023. The reported 27.7% uses all 448 metro large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator. It is a share of deaths, not a population rate or an exposure-based measure of 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)