I-75 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)

I-75 truck accident deaths in Georgia by year

Deaths in large-truck crashes on the selected Georgia I-75 segment fell from 18 in 2020 to 16 in 2021, rose to 29 in 2022, fell to 21 in 2023 and rose to 34 in 2024. Among these supplied annual rows, 2024 had the highest death count in large-truck crashes and 2021 had the lowest.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

All deaths on the selected route followed a different sequence: 76 in 2020, 73 in 2021, 92 in 2022, 81 in 2023 and 69 in 2024. The largest all-crash death count was in 2022. Both columns count people killed, rather than crashes, and both include the provisional 2024 Annual Report File. Their differing patterns do not establish why the counts changed.^{[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-75 in Georgia

The selected Georgia I-75 records include large-truck crash deaths in 20 counties during 2020-2024. Among the listed county rows, Cobb County and Bartow County shared the highest count, with 16 deaths each. Each accounted for 13.6% of the 118 deaths in large-truck crashes on the Georgia segment. Lowndes County recorded 12 deaths, or 10.2%, followed by Henry County with 9 deaths and Tift County with 8 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Houston County had the lowest death count among the displayed counties, with 4 deaths, representing 3.4% of the segment total. The displayed county rows are a selection rather than the complete county breakdown. County identifies where the crash occurred in the FARS accident file; these figures are not counts of county residents killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

How the truck crashes on I-75 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 64 deaths, or 54.2% of the 118 deaths in the selected Georgia I-75 large-truck crashes during 2020-2024. This was the largest supplied collision category and a majority of the deaths. Crashes classified as not a collision with another moving vehicle accounted for 41 deaths, or 34.7%. Angle collisions accounted for 7 deaths, while sideswipe and head-on collisions each accounted for 3 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Separate classifications recorded 72 deaths at nighttime, or 61.0%, and 46 during daytime, or 39.0%. Urban locations accounted for 88 deaths, or 74.6%, compared with 30 deaths, or 25.4%, in rural locations. These percentages each use 118 deaths as the denominator. Collision, time and location categories describe the records without establishing causes or comparative risk.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

I-75 in other states

Across the supplied I-75 state segments, large-truck crashes accounted for 396 deaths during 2020-2024, with deaths recorded in 6 states. Georgia's 118 deaths represented 29.8% of that route-wide death total. This share uses deaths in large-truck crashes across the supplied I-75 segments as its denominator, unlike the Georgia share measured against all deaths on its own segment.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Among the supplied state rows, Georgia had the highest count of deaths in large-truck crashes. Florida recorded 109 deaths, Ohio 60, Tennessee 45, Kentucky 39 and Michigan 25. Michigan had the lowest count among these rows. These comparisons concern deaths at crash locations on the selected route segments. They do not measure residents' deaths or establish relative risk, and the totals include provisional 2024 data.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

About these figures

NHTSA's Large Trucks: 2024 Data defines large trucks as medium or heavy trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 lb; buses and motor homes are excluded. FARS covers crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when a death occurs within 30 days of the crash.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

For this corridor, the operational filter combines ROUTE coded 1 with the I-75 route number in TWAY_ID. Route signing and recorded trafficway identification determine inclusion, rather than a geographic outline of the highway. The 2024 Annual Report File is provisional; NHTSA calls the subsequent finalized version the Final File. No population rate is supplied, and the death counts cannot be read as vehicle counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Fulton County, Georgia (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Cobb County, Georgia (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Clayton County, Georgia (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Bartow County, Georgia (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-75 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-75 truck accidents in Kentucky (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-75 truck accidents in Michigan (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)