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

I-10 truck accident deaths in Mississippi by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-10 in Mississippi rose from 1 in 2020 to 2 in 2021, then to 7 in 2022 and 10 in 2023. The count fell to 2 in 2024. Deaths in large-truck crashes were highest in 2023 and lowest in 2020; 2021 and 2024 were tied at 2 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All route deaths followed a different annual pattern: 11 in 2020, 10 in 2021, 19 in 2022, 18 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. Their highest year was 2022, while their lowest was 2024. Thus, the highest annual counts for the truck accident and all-route death measures occurred in different years. The 2024 figures come from the revisable Annual Report File.^{[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 Mississippi

The I-10 Mississippi segment's large-truck crash deaths occurred in 3 counties. Harrison County recorded 12 deaths, representing 54.5% of the route total in the state. Jackson County recorded 5 deaths and 22.7%, while Hancock County also recorded 5 deaths and 22.7%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed rows, Harrison County had the highest truck accident death count and share. Jackson County and Hancock County tied for the lowest count and share among those rows. These county assignments describe where the fatal crashes occurred on the route-coded Mississippi segment. They do not identify where the people killed lived, and the shares refer to deaths rather than fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-10 happened

For I-10 in Mississippi, rear-end crashes accounted for 5 deaths, or 22.7%; angle (side impact) crashes accounted for 1, or 4.5%. Sideswipe and head-on crashes each recorded 2 deaths and 9.1%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 12 deaths and 54.5%. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. This row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as rollovers or impacts with parked vehicles or fixed objects. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., recorded 9 truck accident deaths and 40.9%; nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., recorded 13 and 59.1%. Urban locations recorded 12 deaths and 54.5%, versus rural locations' 10 and 45.5%. Work-zone deaths numbered 1. These measures count deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-10 in other states

Across I-10, the supplied route-wide total was 595 deaths in large-truck crashes, with deaths recorded in 8 states from 2020 to 2024. Mississippi's 22 deaths represented 3.7% of that route-wide total. The listed other state segments are a subset, so their counts do not replace the separately supplied 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. California and Louisiana each recorded 66 deaths, while Florida recorded 55. Each listed other-state count exceeded Mississippi's 22. These are location-based death counts, not traffic-adjusted risk rankings; they cannot establish relative truck accident risk per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

For I-10 in Mississippi, NHTSA's FARS supplies a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes; nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county counts follow crash location. Route assignment requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID, identifying recorded route signing and location without establishing full highway coverage.^[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement does not establish fault in an I-10 Mississippi truck accident. The 2020 to 2023 records are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the grouping clear: these figures count deaths in qualifying crashes, rather than only deaths of people in large trucks.^[8][6][7]

See also

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

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Harrison County, Mississippi (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)