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

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

The annual records show 22 deaths in 17 fatal crashes in 2020, followed by 33 deaths in 32 fatal crashes in 2021. For 2022, the selection contains 19 deaths in 19 fatal crashes. In 2023, it contains 19 deaths in 17 fatal crashes; in 2024, it contains 11 deaths in 11 fatal crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Among the supplied annual rows, 2021 recorded the largest death count and fatal-crash count. Deaths and crashes remain separate measures even where their values match. The 2024 figures come from the provisional Annual Report File, while 2020 through 2023 use Final Files.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Person categories

People in other vehicles accounted for 82 deaths in the selected other-principal-arterial crashes during 2020-2024. The records also identify 16 nonoccupant deaths and 6 deaths among people in the large truck. Of the supplied person categories, people in other vehicles had the largest death count.^{[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 as a pedestrian-only count. These categories describe the people killed within the selected large-truck crashes; the presence of a truck does not restrict the death total to its occupants.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Manner of collision

Angle collisions accounted for 56 selected deaths during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision rows. Not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport and rear-end each accounted for 18 deaths. Head-on accounted for 9 deaths, sideswipe for 2, and other for 1.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These figures count deaths associated with the recorded manner of the first harmful event, rather than counting collision events or vehicles. A motor vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic. The categories describe that recorded event within the selected fatal crashes and do not establish why the crash happened or who was at fault.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded counties

Fulton County recorded 15 selected deaths during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the supplied county rows. Gwinnett County recorded 9, while Barrow County and Pickens County each recorded 8. Cherokee County, Clayton County, Cobb County and DeKalb County each recorded 7. Douglas County and Henry County each recorded 5.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The county assignment identifies where the crash occurred, not where a person lived. These are counts within the other-principal-arterial large-truck fatal-crash selection, rather than countywide totals for every road type. Without a population or traffic-exposure denominator, the county rows do not provide comparable rates of death or travel risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Recorded interstate routes

The supplied interstate-route row records 1 selected death for I-20 during 2020-2024. It remains part of the other-principal-arterial selection: the road-type filter uses FUNC_SYS = 3, while the route listing applies a separate operational test. An interstate entry requires ROUTE = 1 together with a parseable I-route identifier in TWAY_ID.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

This row describes the route recorded for a qualifying crash within metro Atlanta. It is not a death total for the full length of I-20 or an inventory of every road in the selection. The route identifier alone does not explain the recorded functional-system classification.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Trucks in the selected crashes

The distinct fatal crashes containing the selected deaths involved 99 large-truck vehicles during 2020-2024. Among those large trucks, 42 were truck-tractor vehicles. Both figures measure vehicles involved in the selected crashes; neither is a count of people killed or a count of distinct 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. Truck involvement identifies the qualifying crash population and does not establish fault. The truck-tractor count describes a subset of the recorded large-truck vehicles.^{[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. Crashes producing no deaths are excluded. This fatal-only scope cannot describe all truck crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Metro Atlanta here is the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA MSA, CBSA 12060, containing 29 counties under OMB Bulletin 23-01, July 2023. Unknown or unreported functional systems are excluded from the road-type selection. Counts follow crash location. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File is subject to revision, and no mileage or traffic-exposure denominator is supplied for a risk comparison.^{[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)