Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Pedestrians (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual series records 11 selected deaths in 2020, 12 in 2021, 24 in 2022, 12 in 2023 and 13 in 2024. Each year's count of distinct fatal crashes containing those deaths matches its selected death count. Among the supplied annual rows, 2022 has the largest selected death count and the largest count of fatal crashes containing selected deaths. These are separate measures despite their matching values. The 2020 through 2023 figures come from FARS Final Files; the 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File and remain subject to revision. The series provides counts rather than exposure-adjusted comparisons.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

The person-category table places all 72 selected deaths in the FARS nonoccupant grouping. For this pedestrian topic, however, the operational selection is specifically A_PTYPE = 3. The broader nonoccupant grouping includes A_PTYPE 3,4,5 and includes occupants of vehicles not in transport. Its category label therefore should not be read as expanding this page's population beyond the selected pedestrians. A motor vehicle can remain in transport while stopped in traffic. These figures count deceased people meeting the pedestrian selector within large-truck crashes, excluding other people killed in the same crashes. They do not measure everyone involved or injured.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

The manner-of-collision breakdown assigns 65 selected deaths to not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, 5 to rear-end and 2 to angle. Among these supplied categories, not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport accounts for the largest selected death count. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event, so the labels refer to that event rather than explaining every event in a crash. The values remain counts of selected deceased pedestrians, not vehicles or collision events. They do not identify fault or establish why the crashes occurred, and large-truck involvement alone is not a finding of fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

DeKalb County has the largest selected death count among the supplied county rows, with 13, followed by Fulton County with 11 and Clayton County with 10. Cobb County records 9, Gwinnett County records 6 and Forsyth County records 3. Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Coweta, Douglas, Henry and Pickens counties each record 2. Lumpkin, Morgan, Pike and Spalding counties each record 1. These assignments describe where the crashes occurred, not where the pedestrians lived. The county figures cover selected pedestrian deaths during 2020-2024. Without a population or traffic-exposure denominator, the counts do not provide county rates or comparisons of pedestrian risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

Among the supplied interstate rows, I-75 has the largest selected death count at 12. The recorded counts are 11 for I-285, 7 for I-20, 6 for I-85 and 1 for I-675. Inclusion requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route value in TWAY_ID. This is an operational selection from the crash records, not a legal classification of roads omitted from the table. The figures concern selected pedestrian deaths at crash locations within metro Atlanta during 2020-2024. They do not describe every road, an interstate's full length outside the metro area or a mileage-based comparison of routes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected pedestrian deaths involved 73 large-truck vehicles. Of those large trucks, 41 were truck-tractor vehicles. These vehicle counts are different measures from the 72 selected deaths and the 72 distinct fatal crashes; they should not be presented as additional deaths or crashes. For this dataset, a large truck is a medium or heavy truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds, excluding buses and motor homes. The selection establishes truck involvement, not fault. The truck-tractor figure describes vehicles within the selected crashes rather than the vehicle type of a deceased pedestrian.^{[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 selects deceased pedestrians through A_PTYPE = 3 within A_LT = 1 crashes, using crash location rather than residence. Final Files supply 2020 through 2023; the provisional 2024 Annual Report File may change. No mileage, traffic-exposure or population-rate denominator is supplied. The 16.1% figure instead uses all 448 metro Atlanta large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator, preserving the distinction between the selected population and all deaths.^{[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)