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

Truck accident deaths in Gwinnett County by year

Deaths in Gwinnett County's selected truck crashes declined from 13 in 2020 to 10 in 2021, 6 in 2022 and 4 in 2023, before rising to 8 in 2024. Among these years, 2020 had the highest death count and 2023 had the lowest. The 2024 count was 5 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The share of all county traffic deaths occurring in truck crashes also changed, from 22.8% in 2020 to 6.0% in 2023 and 12.3% in 2024. Each percentage uses that year's all-traffic death count as its denominator. The 2024 Annual Report File remains provisional.^{[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 Gwinnett County truck accidents

People occupying other vehicles accounted for 31 deaths, or 75.6% of deaths in the selected Gwinnett County crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest person category by death count and represented a majority of the 41 deaths. Large-truck occupants accounted for 4 deaths, or 9.8%, the smallest category shown.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 6 deaths, or 14.6%. These categories describe the people killed, rather than the number of vehicles or crashes involved. Their percentages use all 41 deaths in the selected crashes as the denominator, so the figures extend beyond deaths inside large trucks.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The selected fatal crashes involved 39 large trucks in Gwinnett County during 2020-2024. Of those trucks, 18 were truck-tractors, identified by BODY_TYP 66, representing 46.2% of the large-truck count. The remaining category, single-unit and other large trucks, contained 21 trucks. The records also identified 3 large trucks as jackknifed, using J_KNIFE 2 or 3.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

These are vehicle totals, separate from the 37 fatal crashes and 41 deaths. A crash can involve more than one large truck. The tractor percentage therefore uses the 39 large trucks as its denominator, rather than deaths, crashes or the county population.^{[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 18 deaths, or 43.9%, the largest death count among the supplied manner-of-collision categories for 2020-2024. Angle collisions accounted for 8 deaths, or 19.5%, while crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for 11 deaths, or 26.8%. These are death totals grouped by collision manner, not counts of collisions.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A separate classification groups deaths by the number of vehicles in the crash. Two-vehicle crashes accounted for 25 deaths, or 61.0%; single-vehicle crashes accounted for 5 deaths, or 12.2%; and crashes involving three or more vehicles accounted for 11 deaths, or 26.8%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

For 2020-2024, the interstate selection accounted for 19 deaths, or 46.3% of the selected Gwinnett County deaths. It requires ROUTE coded 1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. Recorded route labels attribute 16 deaths to I-85, 2 to I-985 and 1 to I-86. These fields describe route signing and the recorded trafficway, not a highway's geographic extent.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Nighttime accounted for 22 deaths, or 53.7%, compared with 19 deaths, or 46.3%, during daytime. Urban settings accounted for 40 deaths, or 97.6%, and rural settings for 1 death, or 2.4%. Crashes with WRK_ZONE not 0 accounted for 2 deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Gwinnett County's average annual rate for 2020-2024 was 0.8 deaths in truck crashes per 100,000 residents. The corresponding rates were 2.1 for Georgia and 1.6 for the United States. Among the supplied area rows, Gwinnett County had the lowest rate. Fulton County's rate was 1.3 and DeKalb County's was 1.4.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The county rate divides 41 deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates for 2020-2024, then multiplies by 100,000. It does not use only the 2024 population of 1,009,864 residents. These location-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors and are not measures of 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 includes crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. For this county summary, records are selected for large-truck involvement and grouped using the crash-location county field in the FARS accident file.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Deaths elsewhere involving Gwinnett County residents are outside this location-based selection. The 2024 records come from the provisional Annual Report File and may change before the later Final File. Death shares, vehicle shares and population rates use different denominators; none turns this fatal-crash dataset into a count of all truck accidents.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

See also

• 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 Gwinnett County, Georgia (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Large truck (crash data definition) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)