I-44 truck accidents in Missouri (2020-2024)

I-44 truck accident deaths in Missouri by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-44 in Missouri fell from 9 in 2020 to 8 in 2021, then rose to 16 in 2022. They fell to 9 in 2023 before rising to 19 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 19 in 2024, and the lowest was 8 in 2021. The 2020 and 2023 counts were equal.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed a different sequence: 28 in 2020, 32 in 2021, 40 in 2022, 34 in 2023 and 31 in 2024. For that measure, 2022 was the highest year and 2020 the lowest. From 2023 to 2024, truck accident deaths rose while all-route deaths fell. The 2024 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-44 in Missouri

Truck accident deaths on Missouri's I-44 segment occurred in 11 counties according to the crash-location fields. Among the listed rows, Franklin County had the highest death count, 12, and share, 19.7%. Lawrence County followed with 7 deaths and 11.5%, then St. Louis County with 6 and 9.8%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Pulaski County, Greene County, Newton County, Laclede County, Crawford County and Phelps County each recorded 5 deaths and 8.2%. City of St. Louis had 4 deaths and 6.6%, the lowest count and share among the listed rows. Each percentage uses the state's I-44 large-truck death total. These are locations of fatal crashes, not the residences of the people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-44 happened

For I-44 in Missouri, rear-end crashes accounted for 19 deaths, or 31.1%; angle (side impact), 3 and 4.9%; sideswipe, 6 and 9.8%; and head-on, 5 and 8.2%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 28 deaths and 45.9%. It describes a first harmful event other than 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 28, or 45.9%, compared with nighttime's 33 and 54.1%. Urban locations recorded 28 deaths and 45.9%; rural locations, 32 and 52.5%; and locations with land use not reported, 1 and 1.6%. Work-zone deaths numbered 5. These classifications count people killed in large-truck crashes, rather than the number of trucks or fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-44 in other states

Across I-44 in all states, large-truck crashes accounted for 117 deaths during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 3 states. Missouri's 61 deaths represented 52.1% of that route-wide total. The listed Oklahoma segment recorded 54 deaths. Missouri therefore had a higher large-truck death count than Oklahoma for the supplied period.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The other-state table supplies a subset of segments; its listed counts do not replace the separately supplied route-wide total. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile. A reader searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the grouping clear: Missouri's segment count and the all-state I-44 count have different geographic scopes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

These I-44 truck accident statistics for Missouri use NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Qualifying crashes involve 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 assignments describe crash locations, not where those killed lived.^[8][6][7]

I-44 assignment requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. These crash-level fields describe signing and location, not Missouri highway coverage in its entirety. Large-truck involvement establishes no fault. The 2020 to 2023 figures use Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File figures can change when NHTSA replaces that file with the Final File.^[8][6][7]

See also

• Missouri truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-44 truck accidents in Oklahoma (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Greene County, Missouri (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)