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

I-75 truck accident deaths in Ohio by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-75 in Ohio rose from 9 in 2020 to 13 in 2021 and 19 in 2022. The count then fell to 10 in 2023 and 9 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 19 in 2022; 2020 and 2024 tied for the lowest at 9. The 2024 count therefore matched 2020 despite the intervening annual changes.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All route deaths followed a separate series: 20 in 2020, 30 in 2021, 37 in 2022, 30 in 2023 and 22 in 2024. For that measure, 2022 was highest and 2020 lowest, while 2021 and 2023 were equal. Both series reached their highest counts in 2022. These annual truck accident figures measure deaths, not the number of fatal crashes.^{[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 Ohio

Truck accident deaths occurred in 11 counties on Ohio's I-75 segment. Among the listed rows, Montgomery County had the highest count at 18 deaths, or 30.0%. Shelby County followed with 10 and 16.7%, then Hamilton County with 9 and 15.0%, Warren County with 6 and 10.0%, and Miami County with 5 and 8.3%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Lucas County and Butler County each recorded 3 deaths and 5.0%. Hancock County and Wood County each recorded 2 and 3.3%. Allen County had 1 and 1.7%, the lowest count among the listed rows. These shares refer to the segment's large-truck deaths. County entries locate the fatal truck accidents; they do not identify where those killed lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-75 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 27 truck accident deaths, or 45.0%, the largest manner-of-collision count. Sideswipe crashes recorded 5 deaths and 8.3%; angle (side impact) crashes recorded 4 and 6.7%; head-on crashes recorded 2 and 3.3%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 22 and 36.7%. 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, 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., and nighttime, 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., each recorded 30 truck accident deaths and 50.0%. Urban locations recorded 48 and 80.0%; rural locations recorded 12 and 20.0%. Work-zone deaths numbered 10. These classifications count deaths in Ohio's I-75 large-truck crashes, not trucks or crash events.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-75 in other states

Across I-75, the supplied route-wide count was 396 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 6 states. Ohio's 60 deaths represented 15.2% of that route total. The route-wide figure is supplied separately; the listed other-state segments are a subset and should not be summed as the route total.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed other-state rows, Georgia had the highest truck accident death count at 118, followed by Florida at 109. Tennessee recorded 45, Kentucky 39 and Michigan 25, the lowest listed count. Ohio's count was below Georgia's and Florida's and above Tennessee's, Kentucky's and Michigan's. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

For I-75 in Ohio, FARS records fatal traffic crashes with a death within 30 days; nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Truck accident deaths are assigned by crash location, not residence. Crash-level ROUTE and TWAY_ID fields place qualifying records on I-75, but do not establish the highway's full geographic coverage. Large-truck involvement does not establish fault.^[8][6][7]

Ohio's I-75 figures for 2020 to 2023 use FARS Final Files. The 2024 figures use the Annual Report File and can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File. A reader searching for a truck accident lawyer should distinguish deaths from fatal-crash counts when reading these statistics. A crash can involve multiple large trucks and kill multiple people.^[8][6][7]

See also

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

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Montgomery County, Ohio (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)