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

I-75 truck accident deaths in Tennessee by year

Annual truck accident deaths on Tennessee's I-75 rose from 4 in 2020 to 11 in 2021, fell to 9 in 2022 and 7 in 2023, then rose to 14 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 14 in 2024; the lowest was 4 in 2020. Neither extreme was tied.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed a different annual maximum: 12 in 2020, 26 in 2021, 21 in 2022, 20 in 2023 and 25 in 2024. The highest all-route count was 26 in 2021, and the lowest was 12 in 2020, without ties. While 2024 had the highest truck accident death count, its 25 all-route deaths remained below 2021's 26. The 2024 figures come from the revisable 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-75 in Tennessee

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-75 in Tennessee occurred in 7 counties. Among the listed rows, Hamilton County had the highest death count and share, at 15 and 33.3%. Loudon County followed with 9 deaths and 20.0%, then Campbell County with 6 and 13.3%. McMinn County recorded 5 deaths and 11.1%, while Bradley County recorded 4 and 8.9%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Knox County and Anderson County each recorded 3 deaths and 6.7%, tying for the lowest count among the listed rows. Each share uses the segment's large-truck deaths as its denominator. These truck accident figures describe recorded crash locations, rather than where the people who died lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-75 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 18 truck accident deaths and 40.0%, the largest death count among the listed rows. Angle (side impact) recorded 5 and 11.1%; sideswipe, 4 and 8.9%; head-on, 3 and 6.7%; and Other, 2 and 4.4%. Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 13 deaths and 28.9%. It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as rollovers or striking parked vehicles. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime recorded 19 truck accident deaths and 42.2%; nighttime recorded 26 and 57.8%. Urban locations recorded 30 deaths and 66.7%, compared with rural locations' 15 and 33.3%. Work-zone deaths numbered 8. These classifications count deaths in large-truck crashes on I-75 in Tennessee, rather than trucks or fatal crashes.^{[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. Tennessee's 45 deaths represented 11.4% of that route total. The route-wide figure is supplied separately; the listed other-state segments are a subset, rather than the complete route total.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed rows, Georgia had the highest truck accident death count at 118, followed by Florida at 109, Ohio at 60 and Kentucky at 39. Michigan had the lowest listed count at 25. These truck accident counts describe fatal crash outcomes by location. They are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

For I-75 in Tennessee, NHTSA's FARS supplies a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Counts follow recorded crash locations, not the residences of people killed. Route assignment requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID; those crash-level fields describe signing and location rather than the highway's full geographic extent.^[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement in these Tennessee truck accident records does not establish fault. If reading with a truck accident lawyer in mind, keep the counts grouped by crash location. The 2020 to 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 figures use the Annual Report File and can change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File.^[8][6][7]

See also

• Tennessee 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 Hamilton County, Tennessee (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Knox County, Tennessee (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)