I-285 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)

I-285 truck accident deaths in Georgia by year

Deaths in large-truck crashes on the selected Georgia I-285 segment rose from 6 in 2020 to 7 in 2021 and 10 in 2022. They then fell to 9 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. Among these annual rows, 2022 had the highest death count and 2024 had the lowest. These are people killed in qualifying crashes, not counts of truck occupants, vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

All deaths on the selected route followed a different annual pattern: 35 in 2020, 42 in 2021, 35 in 2022, 32 in 2023 and 19 in 2024. That broader measure peaked in 2021. The provisional 2024 Annual Report File supplies both death counts for that year, so the annual comparisons remain 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-285 in Georgia

The supplied records place deaths in large-truck crashes on Georgia's selected I-285 segment in 4 counties during 2020-2024. DeKalb County recorded 16 deaths, or 43.2% of the segment total, followed by Fulton County with 13 deaths and 35.1%. Clayton County recorded 5 deaths and 13.5%, while Cobb County recorded 3 deaths and 8.1%. Among the listed counties, DeKalb had the highest count and Cobb the lowest.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Each county percentage uses the 37 deaths in qualifying Georgia I-285 crashes as its denominator. County identifies where the crash was recorded in the FARS accident file. These figures therefore describe crash locations, not county residents killed, and do not measure countywide truck deaths on other roads or population-based fatality rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

How the truck crashes on I-285 happened

Among the supplied manner-of-collision categories for 2020-2024, crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for the largest death count: 18, or 48.6%. Rear-end crashes accounted for 13 deaths and 35.1%, the largest count among categories involving another moving vehicle. Sideswipe and head-on crashes each accounted for 2 deaths and 5.4%. Angle crashes and the other category each recorded 1 death and 2.7%. These shares use 37 deaths, not 35 fatal crashes, as the denominator.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

The separate time-of-day grouping recorded 23 deaths at nighttime, 62.2%, and 14 during daytime, 37.8%. Nighttime means 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.; daytime means 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m. These classifications describe the recorded circumstances of fatal crashes. They do not establish what caused a collision or compare risk against traffic exposure.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

I-285 in other states

Across the supplied I-285 records for all states, large-truck crashes accounted for 39 deaths during 2020-2024, with deaths recorded in 2 states. Georgia's 37 deaths represented 94.9% of that route-wide death total. The denominator for this comparison is 39 deaths in large-truck crashes across the route records, rather than all deaths on Georgia's segment.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

The other-state table reports that no other state segment met the threshold and displays 0 for that row. That threshold statement does not establish an absence of deaths outside Georgia: the supplied route-wide figures explicitly include 2 states. No threshold value or named comparison segment is supplied. The table therefore supports no further state ranking or conclusion about the highway's geographic continuity.^{[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. For this topic, the large-truck definition comes from NHTSA's Large Trucks: 2024 Data: medium or heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 lb, excluding buses and motor homes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

The operational route selection uses Georgia crash records with ROUTE coded 1, an I-285 route number in TWAY_ID and large-truck involvement. Route signing and trafficway identifiers support this selection; they do not define the highway's geographic extent. The 2024 source is the provisional Annual Report File, while the later finalized version is called the Final File. No population rate is supplied. Death counts, fatal-crash counts and vehicle counts remain distinct measures throughout these figures.^{[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 Clayton County, Georgia (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Cobb County, Georgia (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)