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I-12 truck accidents in Louisiana (2020-2024)

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I-12 truck accidents in Louisiana (2020-2024)
Data years2020-2024[1][2][3][4][5]
Route segmentI-12 in Louisiana[1][2][3][4][5]
Deaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-202435[1][2][3][4][5]
All deaths on the route segment, 2020-202499[1][2][3][4][5]
Share of segment deaths in large-truck crashes35.4%[1][2][3][4][5]
Fatal crashes involving large trucks, 2020-202431[1][2][3][4][5]
2024 data fileFARS Annual Report File[5]

I-12 in Louisiana recorded 35 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, compared with 99 deaths from all fatal crashes assigned to the route. Large-truck crash deaths represented 35.4% of all route deaths. The segment recorded 31 fatal large-truck crashes during that period. These truck accident statistics count everyone killed in the qualifying crashes, including people who were not truck occupants. The death total and fatal-crash total measure different things.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

For I-12 in Louisiana, a truck accident means a fatal crash involving at least one medium or heavy truck with a gross vehicle weight rating greater than 10,000 pounds, excluding buses and motor homes. Assignment uses the crash-level fields ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID, the recorded trafficway identifier. Those fields identify route signing and crash location; they do not describe the highway's full geographic extent.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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I-12 truck accident deaths in Louisiana by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-12 in Louisiana were 7 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 9 in 2022, 9 in 2023 and 2 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was shared by 2022 and 2023; 2024 had the lowest count. Deaths rose from 2020 to 2021 and from 2021 to 2022, remained unchanged in 2023, then fell in 2024.[1][2][3][4][5]

All route deaths were 21 in 2020, 19 in 2021, 25 in 2022, 22 in 2023 and 12 in 2024. That measure fell in 2021, rose in 2022, then fell in 2023 and 2024. Its highest count occurred in 2022 and its lowest in 2024. The annual truck accident figures count deaths rather than fatal crashes.[1][2][3][4][5]

I-12 truck accident deaths in Louisiana by year[1][2][3][4][5]
YearDeaths in large-truck crashesAll deaths on the route
2020721
2021819
2022925
2023922
2024212

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

Counties along I-12 in Louisiana

The I-12 Louisiana segment's truck accident deaths occurred in 4 county locations. Among the listed rows, St. Tammany Parish had the highest large-truck death count, 15, representing 42.9% of the route total in the state. Tangipahoa Parish followed with 9 deaths and 25.7%. East Baton Rouge Parish recorded 7 deaths and 20.0%, followed by Livingston Parish with 4 deaths and 11.4%.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Livingston Parish had the lowest death count and share among the listed rows. These truck accident counts use the county location recorded for each crash. They describe where fatal crashes occurred on the route-coded segment, rather than where the people who died lived.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Counties along I-12 in Louisiana[1][2][3][4][5]
CountyDeaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-2024Share of the route total in the state
St. Tammany Parish1542.9%
Tangipahoa Parish925.7%
East Baton Rouge Parish720.0%
Livingston Parish411.4%

How the truck crashes on I-12 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 17 truck accident deaths on I-12 in Louisiana, or 48.6%, the highest death count among the listed rows. Angle (side impact) recorded 3 deaths and 8.6%; sideswipe recorded 4 and 11.4%; head-on recorded 0 and 0.0%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 11 deaths and 31.4%. It means the first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport. Examples include a rollover or striking a parked vehicle; a vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) recorded 13 deaths and 37.1%; nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) recorded 22 and 62.9%. Urban locations recorded 20 deaths and 57.1%; rural locations recorded 15 and 42.9%. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 3. These figures count deaths, not trucks or crashes.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

How the truck crashes on I-12 happened[1][2][3][4][5]
Manner of collisionDeaths, 2020-2024Share
Rear-end1748.6%
Angle (side impact)38.6%
Sideswipe411.4%
Head-on00.0%
Not a collision with another moving vehicle1131.4%

I-12 in other states

Across all states, the supplied I-12 route total was 35 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024. The route data recorded 1 state with deaths, and Louisiana's segment accounted for 100.0% of the route-wide large-truck death total. Louisiana recorded 35 truck accident deaths.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

The other-state table supplies the label "No other state segment met the threshold" with 0, rather than naming another state segment for comparison. The route-wide total is supplied separately; the other-state table is a subset listing, not the basis for reconstructing that total. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

I-12 in other states[1][2][3][4][5]
I-12 segmentDeaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-2024
No other state segment met the threshold0

About these figures

For I-12 in Louisiana, NHTSA's FARS supplies fatal-only truck accident data. A qualifying traffic crash involves a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public and a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county counts follow crash location, not residence.[8][6][7]

Assignment to I-12 in Louisiana uses crash-level route signing and trafficway identifiers, which do not establish full highway coverage. Truck involvement does not establish fault. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should distinguish these location-based death counts from fatal-crash counts. The 2020 to 2023 figures use Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File remains revisable when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.[8][6][7]

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