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I-40 truck accidents in New Mexico (2020-2024)

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I-40 truck accidents in New Mexico (2020-2024)
Data years2020-2024[1][2][3][4][5]
Route segmentI-40 in New Mexico[1][2][3][4][5]
Deaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-2024137[1][2][3][4][5]
All deaths on the route segment, 2020-2024251[1][2][3][4][5]
Share of segment deaths in large-truck crashes54.6%[1][2][3][4][5]
Fatal crashes involving large trucks, 2020-2024114[1][2][3][4][5]
2024 data fileFARS Annual Report File[5]

Fatal truck accidents assigned to I-40 in New Mexico recorded 137 deaths from 2020 to 2024. Those deaths represented 54.6% of the 251 deaths recorded across all fatal crashes assigned to the route in the state. The large-truck death count came from 114 fatal large-truck crashes. These measures describe different things: the death total counts people killed, while the fatal-crash total counts the crashes involving large trucks. Truck accident deaths include everyone killed in those crashes, not just truck occupants.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

For I-40 in New Mexico, 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 route fields: ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. These recorded fields identify route signing and crash location rather than the highway's full geographic extent.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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I-40 truck accident deaths in New Mexico by year

Annual truck accident deaths on New Mexico's I-40 rose from 19 in 2020 to 34 in 2021, fell to 22 in 2022, and rose to 41 in 2023. The count then fell to 21 in 2024. For deaths in large-truck crashes, 2023 was the highest year and 2020 the lowest, with no ties.[1][2][3][4][5]

All deaths assigned to the route followed a different ranking: 42 in 2020, 63 in 2021, 49 in 2022, 62 in 2023 and 35 in 2024. The highest all-route count was 63 in 2021; the lowest was 35 in 2024, also without ties. Thus, the highest truck accident death count and the highest all-route death count occurred in different years. The 2024 figures use the Annual Report File.[1][2][3][4][5]

I-40 truck accident deaths in New Mexico by year[1][2][3][4][5]
YearDeaths in large-truck crashesAll deaths on the route
20201942
20213463
20222249
20234162
20242135

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

Counties along I-40 in New Mexico

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-40 in New Mexico occurred in 7 counties. Among the listed rows, McKinley County had the highest death count, 33, and share, 24.1%. Bernalillo County followed with 30 deaths and 21.9%, then Cibola County with 28 and 20.4%.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Torrance County recorded 21 deaths, or 15.3%; Guadalupe County recorded 17, or 12.4%. Quay County had 6 deaths and 4.4%. Santa Fe County had the lowest count and share among the listed rows, 2 deaths and 1.5%. Each share uses the state's route total for large-truck crash deaths. These county figures identify recorded crash locations, not where the people killed in truck accidents lived.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Counties along I-40 in New Mexico[1][2][3][4][5]
CountyDeaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-2024Share of the route total in the state
McKinley County3324.1%
Bernalillo County3021.9%
Cibola County2820.4%
Torrance County2115.3%
Guadalupe County1712.4%
Quay County64.4%
Santa Fe County21.5%

How the truck crashes on I-40 happened

Among the listed manner-of-collision rows, rear-end crashes accounted for the largest truck accident death count: 70, or 51.1%. Head-on recorded 19 deaths and 13.9%; angle (side impact), 7 and 5.1%; sideswipe, 3 and 2.2%; and not reported, 1 and 0.7%.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

"Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 37 deaths, or 27.0%. This describes the first harmful event as something other than a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a parked vehicle. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 68, or 49.6%, versus nighttime's 69, or 50.4%. Urban locations recorded 20 deaths and 14.6%; rural locations recorded 117 and 85.4%. Work-zone deaths numbered 19. These classifications count people killed in large-truck crashes, not the number of trucks or fatal crashes.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

How the truck crashes on I-40 happened[1][2][3][4][5]
Manner of collisionDeaths, 2020-2024Share
Rear-end7051.1%
Angle (side impact)75.1%
Sideswipe32.2%
Head-on1913.9%
Not a collision with another moving vehicle3727.0%
Not reported10.7%

I-40 in other states

Across I-40, the supplied route-wide total was 590 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 8 states. New Mexico's 137 truck accident deaths represented 23.2% of that route-wide total. The listed other state segments are a subset, not the complete route total.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Among the listed other-state rows, Tennessee had the highest death count at 163, followed by Arizona at 88, Arkansas at 65 and Oklahoma at 53. Texas had the lowest listed count at 38. New Mexico's count was below Tennessee's and above Arizona's. 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-40 in other states[1][2][3][4][5]
I-40 segmentDeaths in large-truck crashes, 2020-2024
Tennessee163
Arizona88
Arkansas65
Oklahoma53
Texas38

About these figures

For I-40 in New Mexico, FARS supplies fatal-only truck accident data, excluding nonfatal crashes and injuries. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public and a death within 30 days. Counts use recorded crash locations, not residence. Crash-level ROUTE and TWAY_ID fields assign this segment without describing the highway's full geographic extent.[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. When reading with the phrase "truck accident lawyer" in mind, keep the location-based grouping of these counts clear. New Mexico's I-40 figures for 2020 to 2023 use FARS Final Files. The 2024 figures use the Annual Report File, which remains revisable when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.[8][6][7]

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