I-10 truck accidents in California (2020-2024)

I-10 truck accident deaths in California by year

Annual truck accident deaths on California's I-10 rose from 11 in 2020 to 13 in 2021 and 17 in 2022. They then fell to 15 in 2023 and 10 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 17 in 2022; the lowest was 10 in 2024. No years tied for either extreme in this series.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All deaths on the route rose from 58 in 2020 to 85 in 2021 and 96 in 2022, then fell to 69 in 2023 and 65 in 2024. This series also reached its highest count in 2022, but its lowest count occurred in 2020. The annual columns distinguish deaths involving large trucks from all deaths assigned to I-10 in California.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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

Counties along I-10 in California

The segment's truck accident deaths occurred in 3 counties. Among the listed rows, Riverside County had the highest death count, with 31 deaths and 47.0% of the California route total. Los Angeles County followed with 21 deaths and 31.8%. San Bernardino County recorded 14 deaths and 21.2%, the lowest count and share among the listed rows.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each county figure identifies where the fatal crash occurred, using the county location recorded in FARS. These are not counts of county residents who died. The shares describe deaths in large-truck crashes on I-10 in California, rather than all traffic deaths within the named counties.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-10 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 38 deaths, or 57.6%, the largest count among the listed manner-of-collision rows. Angle (side impact) recorded 4 deaths (6.1%), sideswipe 3 (4.5%), head-on 0 (0.0%), and Other 2 (3.0%). The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 19 deaths (28.8%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport at the first harmful event, encompassing events such as a rollover or striking a parked vehicle. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 27 truck accident deaths (40.9%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 39 (59.1%). Urban locations recorded 44 deaths (66.7%), and rural locations recorded 22 (33.3%). Work-zone deaths numbered 14. These classifications count people killed in qualifying crashes, not the number of trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-10 in other states

Across 8 states with recorded deaths on I-10, large-truck crashes accounted for 595 deaths from 2020 to 2024. California's 66 deaths represented 11.1% of that supplied route-wide total. The listed other state segments are a subset, not the full basis for reconstructing the route total.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed other-state rows, Texas had the highest truck accident death count at 206, followed by Arizona at 142. Louisiana recorded 66 deaths, matching California's count. Florida recorded 55, and New Mexico had the lowest count among the listed rows at 23. These counts describe recorded deaths by crash location. They are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

These I-10 California truck accident counts come from NHTSA's FARS, a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county totals use crash locations, not residence. Assignment to I-10 uses crash-level route signing and trafficway identifiers, which do not establish full highway coverage.^[8][6][7]

For California's I-10, large-truck involvement does not establish fault. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should interpret these figures as location-based death and fatal-crash counts. The 2020 to 2023 records are FARS Final Files. Records for 2024 come from the Annual Report File and remain revisable when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File. That distinction applies to the route's annual series.^[8][6][7]

See also

• California truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-10 truck accidents in Arizona (2020-2024)
• I-10 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)
• I-10 truck accidents in Louisiana (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Los Angeles County, California (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Riverside County, California (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for San Bernardino County, California (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)