Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Collector roads (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual collector-road figures were 11 deaths in 10 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 8 deaths in 7 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selection recorded 10 deaths in 8 fatal crashes. The figures were 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in 2023 and 9 deaths in 9 fatal crashes in 2024.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among the supplied annual rows, 2020 had the highest selected death count and fatal-crash count, while 2023 had the lowest counts for both measures. These are separate measures of people killed and distinct crashes containing those deaths. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File may be revised; the earlier years use FARS Final Files.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 26 selected deaths, compared with 12 deaths among people in the large truck and 6 deaths among nonoccupants. Among these supplied person categories, people in other vehicles had the largest death count. The categories describe the people killed in the selected collector-road crashes, rather than everyone involved or injured.^{[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 therefore should not be read as a count limited to pedestrians or pedalcyclists. The full selection includes deaths across person categories because large-truck involvement identifies the qualifying crash, rather than restricting the population to truck occupants.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Head-on collisions accounted for 14 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Angle collisions accounted for 13 deaths. Events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport accounted for 12 deaths, followed by rear-end collisions with 4 deaths and sideswipes with 1 death.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These categories describe the manner of the first harmful event in the selected crashes. Their figures count deaths, not the number of collisions assigned to each category. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. The classifications do not establish why a crash occurred or assign fault to a truck driver or another person.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

DeKalb County and Haralson County each recorded 4 selected deaths, the highest death counts among the supplied county rows. Bartow, Cherokee, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton and Newton counties each recorded 3 deaths. Carroll, Gwinnett, Lumpkin, Pickens and Rockdale counties each recorded 2 deaths. Barrow, Coweta, Forsyth, Heard, Jasper, Meriwether, Morgan and Walton counties each recorded 1 death.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Each county figure places deaths according to where the crash occurred, rather than where a person lived. The geographic frame is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. These county death counts do not provide population rates or comparisons adjusted for traffic exposure.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct crashes containing the selected deaths involved 44 large-truck vehicles, including 17 truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures count vehicles within those crashes. They are different measures from the 44 people killed and the 40 distinct fatal crashes. The truck-tractor count describes vehicles among the large trucks, rather than an additional group 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 from that definition. A truck's inclusion establishes involvement in a selected fatal crash; it does not establish fault or identify which vehicle's occupants died.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Sources and limits

NHTSA FARS is a census of 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 collector-road selection requires A_LT = 1 and FUNC_SYS values 5 and 6, covering major and minor collectors; unknown or unreported functional systems are excluded.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The source series uses 2020 through 2023 FARS Final Files and the provisional 2024 Annual Report File. No mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied, so these counts do not measure comparative travel risk. No population rate is supplied. The reported 9.8% uses all metro large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator.^{[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)