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

Truck accident deaths in DeKalb County by year

Deaths in DeKalb County crashes involving large trucks rose from 6 in 2020 to 11 in 2021, fell to 10 in 2022, reached 15 in 2023 and declined to 13 in 2024. Among these years, 2023 had the highest death count and 2020 the lowest.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The share of all county traffic deaths occurring in truck crashes increased from 6.6% in 2020 to 12.3% in 2024. That share uses each year's all-traffic death count as its denominator. Although truck-crash deaths fell after 2023, their share increased. The 2024 figures use the provisional FARS Annual Report File.^{[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 DeKalb County truck accidents

People in vehicles other than the large truck accounted for 36 deaths, or 65.5% of deaths in the selected DeKalb County crashes during 2020-2024. They formed the majority of those killed and the largest of the listed person groups. Large-truck occupants accounted for 6 deaths, or 10.9%, the smallest listed group.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 13 deaths, or 23.6%. Each percentage uses the full 55 deaths in selected crashes as its denominator. These categories describe who died in crashes involving large trucks; the figures are not limited to truck drivers or truck passengers.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The selected fatal crashes in DeKalb County involved 53 large trucks during 2020-2024. Of those vehicles, 30 were truck-tractors, identified by BODY_TYP 66, representing 56.6% of the large trucks counted. The remaining 23 were single-unit and other large trucks. The truck-tractor percentage therefore has a vehicle denominator, rather than a denominator of people killed.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

There were 0 large trucks recorded as jackknifed under J_KNIFE 2 or 3. These are truck counts within the fatal-crash selection. They should remain distinct from the 51 fatal crashes and 55 deaths, since a crash can involve more than one large truck.^{[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 count: 20, or 36.4%. Rear-end collisions accounted for 19 deaths, or 34.5%, the largest count among collisions with another moving vehicle. Angle and head-on collisions each accounted for 7 deaths, or 12.7%; sideswipes accounted for 2, or 3.6%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A separate vehicle-count classification places 29 deaths in two-vehicle crashes, 14 in crashes involving three or more vehicles and 12 in single-vehicle crashes. These classifications describe the selected fatal crashes, without establishing why they occurred.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

The interstate selection accounted for 35 deaths, or 63.6% of the county's selected deaths during 2020-2024. Within the supplied route rows, I-285 had 16 deaths, I-20 had 14 and I-85 had 5. These totals require ROUTE coded 1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID; they describe recorded crash locations within DeKalb County.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Nighttime accounted for 35 deaths, or 63.6%, compared with 20, or 36.4%, during daytime. The supplied classifications place 54 deaths in urban settings and 1 in a rural setting. Separately, 1 death occurred in a crash recorded with a work-zone code other than 0.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

DeKalb County's average annual truck-crash death rate for 2020-2024 was 1.4 deaths per 100,000 residents, below Georgia's 2.1 and the United States rate of 1.6. The national comparison covers the 50 states and DC. DeKalb County accounted for 4.8% of Georgia's 1,136 deaths in the selected crashes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The rates divide each area's period death count by its summed annual Census population estimates and multiply by 100,000. DeKalb County's denominator is 3,830,053, the sum for 2020-2024, rather than its 2024 population of 772,584. These location-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^{[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 crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. This county analysis selects crashes involving a large truck under the supplied weight and vehicle-type definition, then counts deaths in those crashes. The county field in the accident file supplies the geographic assignment.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2024 component comes from the provisional Annual Report File and may change before the Final File is released. Route-signing and trafficway fields support the interstate breakdown; they do not establish a highway's geographic extent. None of these totals measures nonfatal truck crashes.^{[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-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 DeKalb County, Georgia (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)