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

Truck accident deaths in Cobb County by year

Deaths in Cobb County crashes involving large trucks fell from 10 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, rose to 11 in 2022, fell to 4 in 2023 and rose to 7 in 2024. Among the supplied years, 2022 had the highest death count; 2021 and 2023 shared the lowest count. The 2024 count was 3 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Truck-involved deaths represented 15.9% of all county traffic deaths in 2022 and 12.5% in 2024. Each annual percentage uses that year's all-traffic death count as its denominator, rather than the number of crashes.^{[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 Cobb County truck accidents

People in vehicles other than the large truck accounted for 21 deaths, or 58.3% of the 36 deaths in selected Cobb County crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest group by deaths among the supplied person categories and represented a majority. Large-truck occupants accounted for 6 deaths, or 16.7%. Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 9 deaths, or 25.0%. These percentages describe the people killed across the selected crashes. They do not describe the share of crashes involving each person category, and the outside-vehicle total does not separately identify pedestrian and bicyclist deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The selected Cobb County fatal crashes involved 36 large trucks during 2020-2024. Of those vehicles, 17 were truck-tractors, representing 47.2% of the large trucks counted. The remaining category, single-unit and other large trucks, contained 19 trucks. Truck-tractors are identified by BODY_TYP 66 in the supplied selection. The jackknife measure selects J_KNIFE codes 2 or 3 and reports 0 large trucks recorded as jackknifed. These are vehicle counts, separate from both the 31 fatal crashes and the 36 deaths. A crash can contain more than one large truck, so the vehicle total is not a crash total.^{[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

Rear-end crashes accounted for 16 deaths, or 44.4% of Cobb County's selected deaths during 2020-2024, the largest death count among the listed collision categories. Angle crashes accounted for 7 deaths, head-on crashes for 3 and sideswipe crashes for 0. Crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for 10 deaths, or 27.8%. A separate vehicle-count classification places 26 deaths, or 72.2%, in two-vehicle crashes. Single-vehicle crashes and crashes involving three or more vehicles each accounted for 5 deaths, or 13.9%. Both classifications count deaths rather than crashes and do not establish why a collision occurred.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

The interstate selection requires ROUTE coded 1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. It accounts for 21 deaths, or 58.3%, in Cobb County during 2020-2024: I-75 had 16, I-285 had 3 and I-20 had 2. These are county crash-location totals, not totals for each highway's full extent.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 21 deaths; daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 15. Urban settings accounted for 34 deaths, rural settings for 1 and an unreported setting for 1. These distributions describe recorded settings and times, without measuring travel exposure.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Cobb County's average annual rate for deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020-2024 was 0.9 per 100,000 residents, compared with Georgia's 2.1 and the United States' 1.6. Cobb County had the lowest rate among the supplied area rows. The county calculation divides 36 deaths by 3,878,216 resident person-years, the sum of annual Census population estimates, and multiplies by 100,000. It does not use only the 2024 population of 788,879 residents. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Deaths remain assigned to crash locations, so the rates are not measures of mortality among county residents alone.^{[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 FARS records qualifying crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. This Cobb County selection covers fatal crashes involving a large truck as defined in NHTSA's Large Trucks: 2024 Data; it does not inventory nonfatal truck crashes. County assignment uses the location field in the FARS accident file. For 2024, the supplied records come from the provisional Annual Report File and may change before the Final File. Death shares use the stated death totals, while the truck-tractor share uses the large-truck vehicle count.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

See also

• I-20 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)
• I-285 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)
• 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)
• Car accident statistics for Cobb County, Georgia (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)