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

I-44 truck accident deaths in Oklahoma by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-44 in Oklahoma rose from 3 in 2020 to 8 in 2021, then reached 18 in 2022. The count fell to 17 in 2023 and 8 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 18 in 2022; the lowest was 3 in 2020. The counts for 2021 and 2024 were equal.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed a different opening pattern, falling from 29 in 2020 to 21 in 2021. They rose to 40 in 2022, then fell to 38 in 2023 and 21 in 2024. For this measure, 2022 was also the highest year, while 2021 and 2024 tied for the lowest count. The 2024 truck accident and all-route figures use the Annual Report File.^{[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 Oklahoma

Truck accident deaths assigned to Oklahoma's I-44 segment occurred in 9 counties. Among the listed rows, Tulsa County had the highest death count and share: 13 and 24.1%. Oklahoma County and Creek County each recorded 10 deaths and 18.5%. Lincoln County recorded 7 deaths, representing 13.0% of the segment total.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Grady County and Ottawa County each had 4 deaths and 7.4%. Rogers County recorded 3 and 5.6%, followed by Mayes County with 2 and 3.7%. Craig County had the lowest count among the listed rows, at 1 death and 1.9%. These truck accident figures describe recorded crash locations, not the counties where the people killed lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-44 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 15 truck accident deaths (27.8%); angle (side impact), 8 (14.8%); sideswipe, 5 (9.3%); and head-on, 6 (11.1%). Other and Not reported each had 1 (1.9%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 18 (33.3%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime recorded 20 deaths (37.0%); nighttime, 33 (61.1%); and unreported time, 1 (1.9%). Urban locations recorded 24 (44.4%), while rural locations recorded 30 (55.6%). Work-zone deaths numbered 2. For these I-44 truck accident classifications in Oklahoma, every count measures deaths, rather than the number of trucks involved or the number of fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-44 in other states

Across all states, I-44 recorded 117 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 3 states. Oklahoma's segment accounted for 54 deaths and 46.2% of that route-wide total. The listed Missouri segment recorded 61 deaths, a higher count than Oklahoma's 54. These are truck accident death counts for the respective state segments of I-44.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The other-state table supplies a subset of segments, while the route-wide total is supplied separately. Its listed figures should not be treated as the full route total. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings: the supplied corridor data cannot establish relative risk per trip or per mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

For I-44 in Oklahoma, NHTSA's FARS counts fatal traffic crashes involving a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public, with a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Truck accident deaths use recorded crash locations, not residence. Crash-level ROUTE and TWAY_ID fields assign the segment through route signing and location, without establishing the highway's full geographic extent.^[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the location-based grouping of these counts in mind. Oklahoma's I-44 figures for 2020 to 2023 use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, which can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.^[8][6][7]

See also

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

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Tulsa County, Oklahoma (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)