I-75 truck accidents in Kentucky (2020-2024)

I-75 truck accident deaths in Kentucky by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-75 in Kentucky were 12 in 2020, 6 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 10 in 2024. The count fell from 2020 to 2021, rose in 2022, fell in 2023 and rose in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 12 in 2020; the lowest was 4 in 2023.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed a different sequence: 19 in 2020, 22 in 2021, 16 in 2022, 17 in 2023 and 24 in 2024. Their highest year was 2024 and their lowest was 2022. Neither series had a tie for its highest or lowest count. These annual truck accident figures count deaths, while the route assignment follows the trafficway identifier recorded for each fatal crash.^{[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-75 in Kentucky

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-75 in Kentucky occurred in 9 counties. Among the listed rows, Boone County and Laurel County shared the highest death count, each with 8 deaths and 20.5%. Rockcastle County followed with 7 deaths and 17.9%. Grant County and Whitley County each recorded 4 deaths and 10.3%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Kenton County had 3 deaths and 7.7%. Madison County and Fayette County each had 2 deaths and 5.1%. Scott County had the lowest count among the listed rows: 1 death and 2.6%. Each share uses the Kentucky segment's large-truck death total. These truck accident figures identify crash locations, not the residences of people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-75 happened

For I-75 in Kentucky, rear-end crashes accounted for 16 truck accident deaths, or 41.0%. Angle (side impact) recorded 2 deaths and 5.1%; sideswipe and head-on each recorded 4 and 10.3%. Other recorded 1 death and 2.6%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 12 deaths and 30.8%. It means the first harmful event was not a collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) recorded 19 deaths and 48.7%; nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) recorded 20 and 51.3%. Urban locations recorded 10 deaths and 25.6%; rural locations recorded 29 and 74.4%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These truck accident categories count people killed, not vehicles or fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-75 in other states

Across I-75, 396 deaths in large-truck crashes were recorded in 6 states during 2020 to 2024. Kentucky's 39 deaths represented 9.8% of that supplied route-wide total. The listed other state segments show Georgia with 118 truck accident deaths, Florida with 109, Ohio with 60, Tennessee with 45 and Michigan with 25.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed rows, Georgia had the highest large-truck death count and Michigan had the lowest. The other-state table is a subset, not the source of the route-wide total. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings. The packet supplies no population or mileage rates and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile for these segments.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

The I-75 Kentucky truck accident figures come from NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System, a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public and a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Counts follow crash locations, not residences.^[8][6][7]

For I-75 in Kentucky, crash-level route signing and trafficway identifiers assign records without defining the highway's full geographic extent. Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep these location-based groupings in mind. The 2020 to 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, which can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.^[8][6][7]

See also

• Kentucky truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-75 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)
• I-75 truck accidents in Michigan (2020-2024)