I-85 truck accidents in South Carolina (2020-2024)

I-85 truck accident deaths in South Carolina by year

Annual truck accident deaths on I-85 in South Carolina were 2 in 2020, 7 in 2021, 2 in 2022, 11 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest large-truck death count was 11 in 2023; 2020 and 2022 tied for the lowest count at 2. Deaths rose from 2020 to 2021, fell in 2022, rose in 2023 and fell in 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All-route deaths followed a different annual sequence: 15 in 2020, 13 in 2021, 10 in 2022, 22 in 2023 and 16 in 2024. Their highest count was also in 2023, while their lowest was in 2022. In 2021, truck accident deaths rose from 2 to 7 as all-route deaths fell from 15 to 13.^{[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-85 in South Carolina

The I-85 segment's truck accident deaths occurred in 5 South Carolina counties. Among the listed rows, Cherokee County had the highest death count and share, with 13 deaths and 46.4%. Spartanburg County and Anderson County tied at 6 deaths and 21.4% each. Greenville County recorded 2 deaths, accounting for 7.1%, while Oconee County recorded 1 death and 3.6%, the lowest count and share among the listed rows.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each county's percentage uses the South Carolina segment's large-truck death total. These truck accident figures identify where the fatal crashes occurred according to the recorded county location fields. They do not identify where the people who died lived.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

How the truck crashes on I-85 happened

For I-85 truck accident deaths in South Carolina, rear-end crashes accounted for 12 deaths, or 42.9%, and head-on crashes for 1 death, or 3.6%. Angle (side impact) and sideswipe each recorded 0 deaths and 0.0%. The row "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 15 deaths and 53.6%. This describes a first harmful event other than collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Daytime accounted for 12 deaths and 42.9%; nighttime accounted for 16 and 57.1%. Urban locations recorded 12 deaths and 42.9%, while rural locations recorded 16 and 57.1%. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 10. These classifications count people who died in large-truck crashes, rather than the trucks or crashes involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

I-85 in other states

Across I-85, the supplied route-wide count was 160 deaths in large-truck crashes during 2020 to 2024, with deaths recorded in 5 states. South Carolina's 28 truck accident deaths represented 17.5% of that route-wide total. The total is supplied separately from the other-state rows, which show only a subset of the state segments.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed other-state rows, Georgia recorded 55 deaths and North Carolina recorded 54. Each count was higher than South Carolina's 28. These are comparisons of deaths assigned to I-85 by crash location. The truck accident counts are not traffic-adjusted risk rankings and cannot establish relative risk per trip or mile for these state segments.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

About these figures

For I-85 in South Carolina, FARS supplies fatal-crash data, excluding nonfatal crashes and injuries. Its scope requires a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public and a death within 30 days. Counts follow crash locations, not residence. Crash-level ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID establish assignment, without describing the highway's full geographic extent.^[8][6][7]

Large-truck involvement does not establish fault in a South Carolina I-85 truck accident. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should interpret these figures as location-based counts of deaths and fatal crashes involving large trucks. The 2020 to 2023 figures 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

• South Carolina truck accident statistics (2020-2024)
• I-85 truck accidents in North Carolina (2020-2024)

On related publications

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