Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Motorcycle riders and passengers (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual series records 8 selected deaths in 2020, 7 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 5 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The corresponding counts of distinct fatal crashes containing those deaths are 8, 7, 7, 5 and 5. Among the supplied annual rows, 2020 has the largest selected-death count, while 2023 and 2024 share the smallest.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Deaths and crashes remain separate measures despite the matching annual values. The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File and remain subject to revision, limiting any comparison that treats that year as final.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

The person-category table places all 32 selected deaths in the People in other vehicles category. For this motorcycle topic, that category reports the selected motorcycle riders and passengers killed in crashes involving a large truck. It does not describe every person who died in those crashes or provide separate rider and passenger totals.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The operational person selector is A_PTYPE in 1,2 and A_BODY = 7, applied within A_LT=1 crashes. A_PTYPE distinguishes person roles, while A_BODY identifies the deceased person's vehicle type. Other people killed in the same crashes are excluded from this selected population, even though they share the crash record.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Angle events account for 15 selected deaths, the largest selected-death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Rear-end events account for 11. The category Not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport contains 5 selected deaths, and Other contains 1. Each value counts selected deceased people, rather than vehicles or distinct crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The classification describes the first harmful event, so these labels should be read as that event's recorded manner rather than a complete account of the crash. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. The categories do not establish fault or explain why a collision occurred.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Gwinnett County has 7 selected deaths, the largest count among the supplied county rows. Bartow County and Douglas County each have 3. Carroll County, Clayton County, Cobb County, Coweta County, DeKalb County, Henry County and Lumpkin County each record 2 selected deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Cherokee County, Haralson County, Newton County, Paulding County and Spalding County each record 1 selected death. These rows assign deaths to the county where the crash occurred, irrespective of residence. They describe the selected motorcycle population within the metro geography during 2020-2024. Without a supplied population or travel-exposure denominator, the county counts do not establish comparative risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

I-285 and I-75 each have 2 selected deaths in the recorded interstate-route table. I-20, I-85 and I-985 each have 1. Among these supplied route rows, I-285 and I-75 share the largest selected-death count. The figures concern crashes within metro Atlanta and do not describe deaths along each route's entire length.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Inclusion requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route in TWAY_ID. This operational selection does not cover every road. A record outside that selection is not thereby given a legal road classification. No route-specific traffic or mileage denominator is supplied for comparing the recorded counts as risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected motorcycle deaths involved 33 large-truck vehicles. Of those vehicles, 15 were truck tractors. These are vehicle counts within the selected crashes, separate from the 32 selected deaths and the 32 distinct fatal crashes. The truck-tractor figure describes vehicles among the large trucks, not an additional count of deaths or crashes.^{[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. Recorded large-truck involvement identifies participation in a crash; it 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, with an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes are outside its scope. This page further restricts that fatal-crash population to selected deceased motorcycle riders and passengers in metro Atlanta large-truck crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 7.1% share uses the 448 deaths among all people killed in metro Atlanta large-truck crashes as its denominator. It is not a population rate or an exposure-based risk measure. No mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File may change through revision.^{[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)