I-77 truck accidents in South Carolina (2020-2024)

I-77 truck accident deaths in South Carolina by year

Annual truck accident deaths on South Carolina's I-77 rose from 5 in 2020 to 7 in 2021, then fell to 6 in 2022 and 3 in 2023. The count rose to 5 in 2024, matching 2020. For deaths in large-truck crashes, 2021 was the highest year and 2023 the lowest.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All deaths assigned to the route followed a different annual pattern: 14 in 2020, 21 in 2021, 22 in 2022, 14 in 2023 and 17 in 2024. The highest all-route death count occurred in 2022, while 2020 and 2023 tied for the lowest. Thus, the highest years differed between the truck accident death measure and the all-route death measure. The 2024 counts come from 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-77 in South Carolina

Truck accident deaths assigned to I-77 in South Carolina occurred in 4 counties. Fairfield County recorded 7 deaths, accounting for 26.9% of the segment total. Richland County also recorded 7 deaths and 26.9%. Among the listed rows, these counties tied for the highest death count and share.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Chester County recorded 6 deaths, or 23.1%, and York County recorded 6 deaths, also 23.1%. These counties tied for the lowest death count among the listed rows. Each share uses the South Carolina route total as its denominator. The county figures locate the fatal truck accident crashes; they do not identify where the people who died lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-77 happened

Rear-end crashes accounted for 12 truck accident deaths, or 46.2%, the largest manner-of-collision count among the listed rows. Head-on crashes recorded 4 deaths, or 15.4%. Angle (side impact) and sideswipe crashes each recorded 1 death, or 3.8%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths, or 30.8%. It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport at the first harmful event, encompassing events such as rollovers or impacts with parked vehicles. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime recorded 11 truck accident deaths, or 42.3%; nighttime recorded 15, or 57.7%. Urban locations recorded 12 deaths, or 46.2%, while rural locations recorded 14, or 53.8%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These classifications count deaths in qualifying crashes on South Carolina's I-77, rather than numbers of trucks or fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-77 in other states

Across I-77, the supplied route-wide total was 82 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 5 states. South Carolina's segment accounted for 31.7% of that route-wide death total. Its 26 truck accident deaths can be compared with the listed North Carolina segment's 27 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

North Carolina's count was higher than South Carolina's for this measure. The other-state table supplies a subset of state segments, not the full route-wide accounting. The 82 deaths are supplied separately and should not be replaced with a sum of the displayed segments. These truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and do not establish relative risk per trip or mile.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

The I-77 South Carolina counts use NHTSA's FARS census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county fields locate each crash, rather than the homes of those killed. ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID assign crashes to I-77; these crash-level fields do not establish its full geographic coverage.^[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement does not establish fault. When reading with a truck accident lawyer search in mind, keep the counts' crash-location grouping clear. For this South Carolina segment, 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

• South Carolina truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-77 truck accidents in North Carolina (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Truck accident statistics for Richland County, South Carolina (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Lexington County, South Carolina (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)