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

Truck accident deaths in Henry County by year

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

The share of all county traffic deaths followed a different pattern: 10.7% in 2020, 12.1% in 2021, 14.0% in 2022, 17.9% in 2023 and 9.5% in 2024. Each percentage uses that year's all-traffic death count as its denominator. Thus, the largest share occurred in 2023, despite the higher truck-involved death count in 2022.^{[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 Henry County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 70.0% of Henry County's deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest of the supplied person groups and represented the majority of deaths. Occupants of the large trucks accounted for 4 deaths, or 20.0%.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles accounted for 2 deaths, or 10.0%, the smallest listed group. Each share uses the 20 deaths in the selected crashes as its denominator. These categories describe the people killed, not the number of vehicles involved, and their inclusion depends on the crash location rather than their home address.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The trucks involved

The selected Henry County fatal crashes involved 25 large trucks during 2020-2024. Of those trucks, 14 were truck-tractors, representing 56.0% of the large-truck count. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 11. The records identified 1 large truck as jackknifed.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

For this topic, NHTSA's large-truck definition covers medium or heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 lb; buses and motor homes are excluded. These totals count trucks involved in fatal crashes, not truck occupants killed or separate crashes. A fatal crash may involve more than one large truck, so the vehicle total is a distinct measure.^{[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 a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for the largest number of deaths: 8, or 40.0%. Angle collisions accounted for 5 deaths, or 25.0%; rear-end collisions for 4, or 20.0%; head-on collisions for 2, or 10.0%; and sideswipes for 1, or 5.0%. These percentages use the 20 selected deaths.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

A separate classification describes vehicle involvement. Single-vehicle crashes accounted for 4 deaths, two-vehicle crashes for 9 and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 7. These are death counts grouped by crash characteristics, not counts of crashes or explanations of their causes.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

During 2020-2024, Henry County interstate crashes in the supplied selection accounted for 9 deaths, or 45.0% of the selected deaths, with 9 recorded on I-75. Route selection requires ROUTE coded 1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. 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, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 11 deaths, or 55.0%; daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 9, or 45.0%. Urban settings accounted for 18 deaths, or 90.0%, and rural settings for 2, or 10.0%. These distributions describe where and when the fatal crashes occurred without establishing relative travel risk.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Henry County's average annual death rate for large-truck crashes during 2020-2024 was 1.6 deaths per 100,000 residents. That was below Georgia's 2.1 and equal to the United States rate of 1.6. The national comparison covers 50 states and DC. The listed DeKalb County rate was 1.4, while Clayton County's was 1.5.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The county rate divides 20 deaths by 1,251,367, the sum of annual Census population estimates for 2020-2024, and multiplies by 100,000. The denominator is not solely the 2024 population of 259,972 residents. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors and do not measure risk per trip.^{[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 FARS records crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. This Henry County selection retains fatal crashes involving large trucks and counts the deaths in those crashes. The county field in the accident file assigns geography by recorded crash location.^{[6][1][2][3][4][5][7][8][9]}

The 2024 observations come from the provisional FARS Annual Report File. They may change in the later Final File, which is a separate release designation. Consequently, totals and comparisons containing 2024 retain that provisional component. The dataset's fatal-only coverage does not supply a count of every truck crash in Henry County.^{[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)