I-30 truck accidents in Arkansas (2020-2024)

I-30 truck accident deaths in Arkansas by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-30 in Arkansas rose from 2 in 2020 to 9 in 2021 and 13 in 2022. They then fell to 12 in 2023 and 8 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 13 in 2022, and the lowest was 2 in 2020. The 2024 count remained higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed the same annual direction: 19 in 2020, 24 in 2021, 28 in 2022, 27 in 2023 and 25 in 2024. For that measure, 2022 was also the highest year and 2020 the lowest. Both series count deaths rather than fatal crashes. The 2024 truck accident and all-route figures come from the Annual Report File and remain subject to revision.^{[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-30 in Arkansas

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-30 in Arkansas occurred in 7 counties. Among the listed rows, Hot Spring County had the highest count at 17 deaths, or 38.6% of the state segment total. Saline County followed with 8 and 18.2%, then Hempstead County with 6 and 13.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Clark County recorded 5 deaths and 11.4%; Miller County recorded 4 and 9.1%; Pulaski County recorded 3 and 6.8%. Nevada County had the lowest death count among the listed rows, with 1 and 2.3%. These county shares describe the locations of fatal truck accidents on the Arkansas segment, using crash location fields rather than the residences of those killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-30 happened

For I-30 truck accident deaths in Arkansas, rear-end collisions accounted for 16 deaths and 36.4%; sideswipes for 5 and 11.4%; head-on collisions for 1 and 2.3%; and angle (side impact) collisions for 0 and 0.0%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 22 deaths and 50.0%. It means the first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a parked vehicle, fixed object, pedestrian or cyclist. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 24, or 54.5%, versus nighttime's 20 and 45.5%. Rural locations recorded 31 deaths and 70.5%, while urban locations recorded 13 and 29.5%. Work-zone deaths numbered 7. Each breakdown counts people killed in large-truck crashes, rather than the number of trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-30 in other states

Across all states, I-30 recorded 121 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 2 states. Arkansas accounted for 44 deaths and 36.4% of that separately supplied route-wide total. The listed Texas segment recorded 77 deaths, a higher truck accident death count than Arkansas's 44.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The other-state table is a subset of segment figures, not the source of the route-wide total. These truck accident counts are not adjusted for traffic and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile. For a reader searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping to keep in mind here is crash location on the recorded I-30 segment.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

The I-30 Arkansas truck accident figures use NHTSA's FARS census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling 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 locations, not where people lived.^[8][6][7]

For Arkansas's I-30 segment, crash-level ROUTE and TWAY_ID fields assign crashes by route signing and recorded trafficway identifier; they do not establish the highway's full geographic extent. Truck accident involvement does not establish fault. The 2020 to 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.^[8][6][7]

See also

• Arkansas truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-30 truck accidents in Texas (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Pulaski County, Arkansas (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Hot Spring County, Arkansas (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)