I-20 truck accidents in Louisiana (2020-2024)

I-20 truck accident deaths in Louisiana by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-20 in Louisiana rose from 12 in 2020 to 15 in 2021, then fell to 11 in 2022 and 3 in 2023. The count rose to 5 in 2024. For deaths in large-truck crashes, 2021 was the highest year and 2023 was the lowest, with no ties at either endpoint.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All deaths assigned to the route followed a different sequence: 29 in 2020, 26 in 2021, 19 in 2022, 18 in 2023 and 15 in 2024. That measure fell each year, with its highest count in 2020 and lowest in 2024, also without ties. The truck accident series and the all-route series therefore reached their highest and lowest annual death counts in different years.^{[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-20 in Louisiana

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-20 in Louisiana occurred in 9 counties. Among the listed rows, Caddo Parish had the highest death count, 10 (21.7%), followed by Madison Parish with 8 (17.4%), Ouachita Parish with 7 (15.2%) and Richland Parish with 5 (10.9%).^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Bossier Parish, Bienville Parish and Lincoln Parish each recorded 4 deaths and 8.7%. Webster Parish recorded 3 deaths (6.5%). Calcasieu Parish had the lowest death count among the listed rows, 1 (2.2%). Each percentage uses the Louisiana segment's large-truck death total. These truck accident figures identify recorded crash locations; they do not identify where the people who died lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-20 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 20 deaths (43.5%), the largest manner-of-collision death count among the listed rows. Sideswipe crashes recorded 5 (10.9%); angle (side impact) and head-on crashes each recorded 4 (8.7%). Other recorded 1 (2.2%). The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 12 deaths (26.1%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport at the first harmful event, such as a rollover or impact with a parked vehicle or fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

For I-20 in Louisiana, daytime accounted for 18 truck accident deaths (39.1%) and nighttime for 28 (60.9%). Urban and rural locations each recorded 23 deaths (50.0%). Work-zone deaths numbered 4. These classifications count people killed in large-truck crashes, not numbers of trucks or fatal crashes, throughout 2020 to 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-20 in other states

Across 6 states with deaths assigned to I-20, large-truck crashes accounted for 371 deaths during 2020 to 2024. Louisiana's 46 deaths represented 12.4% of that separately supplied route-wide total. The other-state table lists selected segments; its rows are not the definition of the route total.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed other-state rows, Texas had the highest truck accident death count at 171, followed by Georgia at 66, Mississippi at 35, South Carolina at 27 and Alabama at 26. Alabama had the lowest count among those rows. These are location-based death counts for each state's I-20 segment. They are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative truck accident risk per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

The I-20 Louisiana counts come from NHTSA's FARS census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a death within 30 days and a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county fields locate the crash, not the deceased person's residence.^[8][6][7]

For Louisiana's I-20 segment, ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID assign crashes without establishing the highway's full geographic extent. Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. Data for 2020 to 2023 are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File remains revisable. Readers searching "truck accident lawyer" should keep these counts' grouping by recorded crash location in mind.^[8][6][7]

See also

• Louisiana truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-20 truck accidents in Alabama (2020-2024)
• I-20 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Ouachita Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)