Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Minor arterials (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 21 deaths in 21 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 17 deaths in 17 fatal crashes in 2021. In 2022, the selection recorded 30 deaths in 29 fatal crashes, the highest death count and fatal-crash count among the supplied annual rows.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For 2023, the figures were 13 deaths in 12 fatal crashes. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File records 18 deaths in 18 fatal crashes. Each year uses the same minor-arterial and large-truck selection. The separate columns distinguish people killed from distinct crashes containing those deaths. Changes in these counts do not establish changes in risk because no mileage or traffic exposure denominator is supplied.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 76 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied person categories. People in the large truck account for 12 deaths, and nonoccupants account for 11 deaths. These categories describe people killed in the selected minor-arterial crashes across 2020-2024, rather than all people involved or all occupants present.^{[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. Its scope therefore extends beyond people outside vehicles. The person-category breakdown preserves the page's full death population: large-truck involvement selects the crashes, while the death counts include people killed in other vehicles and in the nonoccupant grouping.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Angle collisions account for 43 deaths, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Head-on collisions account for 23 deaths. The category for events that were not collisions with a motor vehicle in transport accounts for 19 deaths, followed by rear-end collisions with 9 deaths and sideswipes with 5 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These are deaths grouped by the manner of the first harmful event, not counts of collisions or trucks. The classification does not describe every event that may have occurred within a crash. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic, so that category cannot be read simply as a distinction between moving and stationary vehicles.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Fulton County records 20 selected deaths, the largest death count among the supplied county rows. Cobb County records 8. Bartow County, DeKalb County and Gwinnett County each record 7, while Butts County records 6. These figures concern deaths in selected large-truck crashes on minor arterials during 2020-2024.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The county breakdown assigns deaths to the county where the crash occurred, regardless of where the people lived. Metro Atlanta here means the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, comprising 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The supplied rows support comparisons of recorded death counts only. They do not establish county population rates or account for differences in traffic exposure.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 101 large-truck vehicles. Of those large trucks, 38 were truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures count vehicles in the selected crashes; neither is a count of people killed or a count of separate crashes. They therefore describe a different measure from the page's death and fatal-crash totals.^{[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, not fault. The vehicle figures remain confined to the minor-arterial selection within metro Atlanta.^{[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 fall outside its scope. This page selects A_LT = 1 crashes with FUNC_SYS = 4; unknown or unreported functional systems are excluded.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2020 through 2023 counts come from FARS Final Files. The 2024 counts use the provisional Annual Report File and may change. Geography follows crash location rather than residence. The death-share denominator is all metro Atlanta large-truck-crash deaths. No population rate or mileage or traffic exposure denominator is supplied, so the figures do not measure comparative 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)