Metro Atlanta truck crash statistics: Other freeways and expressways (2020-2024)

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 8 deaths in 7 selected fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 14 deaths in 14 fatal crashes in 2021. Both 2022 and 2023 recorded 1 death in 1 fatal crash. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File records 0 deaths and 0 fatal crashes meeting the selection.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among the supplied annual rows, 2021 has the highest death count and fatal-crash count. Deaths and crashes remain separate measures: a crash record identifies an event, while the death count includes the people killed in it. These annual counts do not measure changes in traffic exposure or risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles account for 19 deaths in the selected metro Atlanta crashes during 2020-2024. The remaining person-category rows report 4 nonoccupant deaths and 1 death among people in the large truck. People in other vehicles have the largest death count among the supplied person categories.^{[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 simply as a pedestrian count. These categories describe the people killed within the selected large-truck crashes; they do not count vehicles or establish responsibility for a collision.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Rear-end events account for 18 deaths in the selected crashes during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Events classified as not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport account for 4 deaths, and sideswipe events account for 2 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The classification concerns the first harmful event in a crash. It does not describe every event that may appear in the crash sequence. A motor vehicle stopped in traffic can still be a vehicle in transport. Each figure here counts people killed, rather than the number of rear-end, sideswipe or other fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Fulton County recorded 6 selected deaths during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the supplied county rows. DeKalb County and Gwinnett County each recorded 4. Cobb County, Coweta County and Forsyth County each recorded 2, while Barrow County, Bartow County, Butts County and Haralson County each recorded 1.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

County assignments identify where the crashes occurred, not where the people killed lived. The geographic frame is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, whose 29 counties are specified under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. The county counts apply only to the selected road-type crashes and do not establish comparative county risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The recorded-route rows show 7 selected deaths associated with I-285 and 7 with I-85 during 2020-2024. These routes share the largest death count among the supplied interstate rows. I-75 accounts for 4 selected deaths, and I-20 accounts for 1.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Route inclusion requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route identifier in TWAY_ID. This route selection is distinct from the FUNC_SYS = 2 selection defining the page's road-type population. The table describes recorded interstate routes within those selected metro Atlanta crashes. It neither inventories every road nor measures deaths along the entire routes outside the metro area.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 29 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Among those large trucks, 19 were truck tractors. These are vehicle counts within the selected crashes, separate from the 24 people killed and the 23 distinct fatal 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. The underlying A_LT = 1 selection identifies crashes involving at least one large truck. Large-truck involvement alone does not establish fault or identify who caused an event.^{[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 when an occupant or nonoccupant dies within 30 days. Nonfatal-only crashes fall outside that census. This topic restricts metro Atlanta A_LT = 1 crashes to FUNC_SYS = 2.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2020 through 2023 records use Final Files; the provisional 2024 Annual Report File remains subject to revision. The 5.4% share uses all metro large-truck-crash deaths as its denominator. No population rate, mileage denominator or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied, so these counts cannot establish exposure-adjusted 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)