Alabama truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Alabama by year

Truck accident deaths in Alabama numbered 141 in 2020, 150 in 2021, 156 in 2022, 137 in 2023 and 135 in 2024. Their shares of annual traffic deaths were 15.1%, 15.3%, 15.8%, 14.1% and 14.0%, respectively. Both the death count and share were highest in 2022 and lowest in 2024. The 2024 death count was 6 lower than in 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Alabama's share of national large-truck deaths was 2.9% in 2020, 2.6% in 2021 and 2022, and 2.5% in 2023 and 2024, the tied lowest years. Across the full period, Alabama accounted for 2.6% of the national total of 27,553 deaths in large-truck crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

2024 figures come from the FARS Annual Report File and can be revised when NHTSA publishes the final file.

Who died in Alabama truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 523 Alabama truck accident deaths, or 72.7%. People in the large truck accounted for 146 deaths, or 20.3%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 50 deaths, or 7.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label denotes the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. It is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle: the category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. People in other vehicles represented the majority of deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Alabama's fatal truck accident records identify 705 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 453 trucks, or 64.3%. The separate single-unit and other large trucks category contained 252 trucks. Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 531, representing 75.3% of the large trucks counted.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records also identify 13 large trucks recorded as jackknifed and 15 large trucks carrying hazardous materials. Every figure in this section counts trucks rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count and fatal crash count describe different units in Alabama's records.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Counts are trucks, not crashes. One crash can involve more than one large truck.

Interstates and crash types

Interstate crashes accounted for 196 Alabama truck accident deaths, or 27.3% of the period's total. Among the listed routes, I-65 recorded 66 deaths in large-truck crashes, I-59 recorded 47 and I-20 recorded 26. These are route-coded figures from the supplied subset, not a complete road network listing.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The separate counts of all deaths on those routes were 262 on I-65, 151 on I-59 and 61 on I-20. Those totals are not limited to large-truck crashes. Alabama also recorded 33 truck accident deaths in work zones.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Jefferson County had the highest truck accident death count, 60, followed by Mobile County with 40 and Montgomery County with 37. Their average annual deaths per 100,000 residents were 1.8, 1.9 and 3.3, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Butler County had the highest rate among the listed counties, 18.2, with 17 deaths. Madison County had the lowest listed rate, 1.1, with 22 deaths. Etowah County also recorded 22 deaths, with a rate of 4.3. These county rows are a subset; small counts make rates sensitive to each death.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Up to 15 counties with the most deaths in the period, largest first. Rates for counties with few deaths change sharply with each death.

How Alabama compares with the national rate

Alabama's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.8 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 719 for Alabama and 27,553 for the United States. These rates use deaths recorded by crash location, not the residence of the people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator is the sum of annual Census population estimates across the period. Alabama's separately displayed 2024 population, 5,163,055, is not that denominator. Rates do not adjust for mileage or visitors. When reading for "truck accident lawyer," keep death counts and population-based rates distinct.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 174 deaths; it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic. Angle collisions recorded 189 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate time classifications recorded 468 daytime and 250 nighttime truck accident deaths. Land-use classifications recorded 258 urban and 461 rural deaths. Crash configuration is another classification: single-vehicle crashes recorded 134 deaths, two-vehicle crashes 448, and crashes involving three or more vehicles 137. These configuration counts describe deaths, not crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Alabama truck accidents, 96 deaths occurred in single-vehicle crashes and 50 in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These figures cover truck occupants only, a subset of everyone killed in crashes involving large trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Alabama's FARS records cover fatal traffic crashes involving a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county assignments follow crash location, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide Alabama deaths by summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without mileage or visitor adjustments; the separately shown July 1, 2024 population is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-20 truck accidents in Alabama (2020-2024)
• I-59 truck accidents in Alabama (2020-2024)
• I-65 truck accidents in Alabama (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Alabama car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Jefferson County, Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Mobile County, Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Montgomery County, Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Etowah County, Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Madison County, Alabama (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)