I-20 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)

I-20 truck accident deaths in Georgia by year

Deaths in large-truck crashes on the selected Georgia segment fell from 18 in 2020 to 7 in 2021, then rose to 13 in 2022 and 14 in 2023. The count remained 14 in 2024. Among these annual rows, 2020 had the highest large-truck crash death count and 2021 had the lowest.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

All deaths on the selected route followed a different sequence: 44 in 2020, 47 in 2021, 58 in 2022, 50 in 2023 and 47 in 2024. That measure reached its highest count in 2022. Both columns count people killed, rather than crashes or vehicles. The 2024 observations come from the provisional Annual Report File, so the unchanged large-truck death count remains subject to revision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Crashes are placed on the route by the trafficway identifier recorded for each fatal crash. 2024 is the Annual Report File.

Counties along I-20 in Georgia

Fatal large-truck crashes on the selected I-20 segment produced deaths in 14 Georgia counties during 2020-2024. The supplied county table presents 10 counties. Among those listed, DeKalb County recorded the largest death count, 14, representing 21.2% of the Georgia segment's 66 deaths. Douglas County followed with 9 deaths and 13.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Carroll County and Columbia County each recorded 7 deaths, or 10.6%, while Warren County recorded 5 deaths, or 7.6%. Haralson County, Greene County and McDuffie County each had 4 deaths, or 6.1%. Taliaferro County and Fulton County each had 3 deaths, or 4.5%. These shares use the full Georgia segment death total as their denominator. County identifies where the crash was recorded, not where a person killed in it lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

How the truck crashes on I-20 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 38 deaths, or 57.6% of the 66 deaths in selected Georgia I-20 large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest collision-manner category and a majority of the deaths. Crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for 16 deaths, or 24.2%. Angle and sideswipe crashes each accounted for 5 deaths, or 7.6%; head-on and other crashes each accounted for 1 death, or 1.5%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Separate classifications recorded 41 deaths at nighttime, or 62.1%, and 23 during daytime, or 34.8%; time was not reported for 2 deaths, or 3.0%. Urban locations accounted for 46 deaths, or 69.7%, and rural locations for 20, or 30.3%. These are distributions of deaths, not findings about crash causes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

I-20 in other states

Across the supplied I-20 route selection, large-truck crashes accounted for 371 deaths in 6 states during 2020-2024. Georgia's 66 deaths represented 17.8% of that route-wide death total. This comparison uses deaths in large-truck crashes on I-20 as its denominator, whereas Georgia's 26.8% figure compares large-truck crash deaths with all deaths on the selected Georgia segment.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Among the other-state rows supplied, Texas recorded the largest count, 171 deaths. Louisiana recorded 46, Mississippi 35, South Carolina 27 and Alabama 26. Each figure concerns the selected I-20 segment in that state, not statewide truck deaths. These counts do not establish comparative travel risk: the supplied figures contain no population rate or traffic-exposure denominator. The route-wide comparison also includes provisional 2024 data.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

About these figures

NHTSA FARS covers crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days. This fatal-only scope excludes a complete accounting of injury-only or property-damage truck crashes. The Georgia I-20 extraction requires ROUTE coded 1 and an I-20 route number in TWAY_ID; these fields describe route signing and the recorded trafficway, rather than defining the highway's geographic extent.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Deaths are assigned by recorded crash location. The 66 deaths and 56 fatal large-truck crashes are distinct measures, and neither is a vehicle count. The 2024 source is the provisional Annual Report File, which can change before the later Final File. No population-based death rate is supplied for this corridor.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

See also

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

On related publications

• Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Richmond County, Georgia (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• I-20 truck accidents in Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-20 truck accidents in Louisiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-20 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)