Truck accident statistics for Bartow County, Georgia (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Bartow County by year

Deaths in Bartow County crashes involving large trucks fell from 7 in 2020 to 3 in 2021, rose to 8 in 2022, fell to 4 in 2023 and rose to 9 in 2024. Among these years, 2024 had the highest death count and 2021 had the lowest. The 2024 count was 2 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The corresponding share of all county traffic deaths ranged from 9.4% in 2021 to 37.5% in 2024. Each annual percentage uses that year's all-traffic death count as its denominator. The 2024 results are provisional Annual Report File figures.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Deaths within 30 days in crashes on public roads. 2024 figures come from the FARS Annual Report File and can be revised.

Who died in Bartow County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 18 deaths, or 58.1% of deaths in Bartow County's selected large-truck crashes during 2020 through 2024. This was the largest of the supplied person groups and a majority of the deaths. Occupants of the large trucks accounted for 11 deaths, or 35.5%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 2 deaths, or 6.5%. Each group's percentage uses the full 31 deaths in the selected crashes as its denominator. These categories describe the people killed; the truck-involvement selection does not restrict the death count to truck drivers or passengers.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The large-truck definition used for Bartow County covers medium or heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 lb. NHTSA's Large Trucks: 2024 Data excludes buses and motor homes from that definition. Across the selected fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024, the records identify 31 large trucks.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck-tractors, selected with BODY_TYP 66, accounted for 24 trucks, or 77.4% of the large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 7. Another measure identifies 2 trucks as jackknifed using J_KNIFE 2 or 3. These are vehicle counts; a fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Counts are trucks, not crashes. One crash can involve more than one large truck.

How the fatal truck crashes happened

Among the supplied collision categories, crashes classified as not involving a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for the largest death count: 14, or 45.2%. Angle collisions accounted for 9 deaths, rear-end collisions for 7, head-on collisions for 1 and sideswipe collisions for 0 in Bartow County during 2020 through 2024.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A separate vehicle-count classification assigns 13 deaths to two-vehicle crashes, 9 to single-vehicle crashes and 9 to crashes involving three or more vehicles. Both classifications describe deaths in the selected fatal crashes. They do not report the number of crashes in each category or establish why those crashes occurred.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

The interstate selection recorded 16 deaths, or 51.6% of Bartow County's selected deaths during 2020 through 2024, with 16 assigned to I-75. This selection requires ROUTE coded 1 and an identifiable I-route number in TWAY_ID. Those fields describe route signing and the recorded trafficway, rather than the highway's geographic extent.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Daytime, defined as 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 25 deaths, or 80.6%; nighttime accounted for 6, or 19.4%. Urban settings accounted for 22 deaths, or 71.0%, and rural settings for 9, or 29.0%. These shares use the 31 selected deaths as their denominator.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Bartow County's average annual death rate for crashes involving large trucks was 5.5 per 100,000 residents during 2020 through 2024. The supplied rates were 2.1 for Georgia, 1.6 for the United States and 0.9 for Cobb County, Georgia. Bartow County had the highest rate among these comparison rows.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The county rate divides 31 deaths by 565,956 summed annual resident population estimates and multiplies by 100,000. Each area's rate uses its own summed annual Census population estimates. These are population-based rates for deaths by crash location. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors and do not measure individual travel risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates, so they show deaths per 100,000 residents per year. They do not adjust for miles driven or for visitors.

About these figures

NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System supplies the fatal-crash records used here. Its scope requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and a death within 30 days of the crash. This Bartow County selection counts deaths in crashes involving a qualifying large truck, using the accident file's county location field.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2024 records come from the provisional Annual Report File and may change in the later Final File. Death counts, fatal-crash counts and truck counts remain separate measures throughout the page. Population denominators support the supplied rates without changing the crash-location basis of the underlying deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

See also

• I-75 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)
• Georgia direct action against a trucking company's insurer

On related publications

• Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)