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

Truck accident deaths in Clayton County by year

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

The annual percentage uses all traffic deaths recorded in the county as its denominator. Truck-involved deaths represented 12.2% of 49 traffic deaths in 2020 and 8.5% of 47 in 2024. These percentages describe the composition of fatal outcomes, rather than the share of all crashes involving trucks.^{[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 Clayton County truck accidents

People in vehicles other than the large truck accounted for 13 deaths, or 56.5% of the 23 deaths in Clayton County's selected crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest person group in the supplied breakdown. Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 10 deaths, or 43.5%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Large-truck occupants accounted for 0 deaths, or 0.0%. The denominator for each share is everyone killed in the selected large-truck crashes, rather than only truck occupants. The outside-vehicle category combines several person types; the supplied figures do not provide separate death counts for pedestrians, bicyclists or the other people included in that category.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The selected Clayton County fatal crashes involved 24 large trucks during 2020-2024. Of those vehicles, 13 were truck-tractors, representing 54.2% of the large trucks counted. The remaining 11 were single-unit and other large trucks. These are vehicle totals, distinct from the 23 fatal crashes and 23 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The truck-tractor selection uses BODY_TYP 66. The jackknife measure uses J_KNIFE 2 or 3 and records 0 large trucks. Because a crash can involve more than one large truck, vehicle totals should not be read as crash totals. These figures concern trucks involved in fatal crashes, without describing their involvement in nonfatal crashes.^{[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 manner-of-collision categories, crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for the largest death total: 12, or 52.2%. Angle and rear-end classifications each accounted for 5 deaths, or 21.7%. Head-on and sideswipe classifications each recorded 0 deaths, while the other category recorded 1 death, or 4.3%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A separate classification counts vehicles involved: two-vehicle crashes accounted for 11 deaths, or 47.8%; single-vehicle crashes and crashes involving three or more vehicles each accounted for 6 deaths, or 26.1%. Both breakdowns use the 23 selected deaths as their denominator. Neither breakdown establishes the cause of a crash.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

The interstate selection identifies 12 deaths, or 52.2% of the selected Clayton County deaths during 2020-2024. Recorded route totals were 6 deaths on I-75, 5 on I-285 and 1 on I-675. Inclusion requires ROUTE coded 1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID; these fields describe route signing and trafficway identification.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 16 deaths, or 69.6%. Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 7, or 30.4%. Urban settings accounted for 23 deaths, or 100.0%, while rural settings recorded 0. Crashes with WRK_ZONE not 0 accounted for 1 death.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Clayton County's average annual death rate for the selected crashes was 1.5 per 100,000 residents during 2020-2024, compared with Georgia's 2.1 and the United States' 1.6. The national figure covers 50 states plus DC. Among the supplied county comparisons, Fulton County recorded 1.3, DeKalb County 1.4 and Henry County 1.6.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Each rate divides the area's selected deaths by its summed annual Census population estimates and multiplies by 100,000. Clayton County's denominator was 1,491,800 across the period. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors, and their death numerators follow crash location rather than the residence of the people killed.^{[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 covers crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. For this page, the operational selection is fatal crashes involving a qualifying large truck, assigned to Clayton County through the accident file's county location field. Death totals include people killed throughout those selected crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The truck definition follows NHTSA's Large Trucks: 2024 Data. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File can change before the later Final File. Consequently, the supplied totals describe the available fatal-crash records and do not measure every truck accident occurring in the county.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

See also

• I-285 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)
• I-75 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)
• I-85 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)
• Car accident statistics for Clayton County, Georgia (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)