Alaska truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Alaska by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 9 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 9 in 2022, 12 in 2023 and 10 in 2024. Their shares of all Alaska traffic deaths were 14.1%, 11.4%, 11.0%, 19.7% and 14.3%, respectively. The highest death count was in 2023; the lowest was in 2021. Counts tied in 2020 and 2022. The 2024 count was 1 death higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Alaska's reported share of national large-truck deaths was 0.1% in 2021 and 0.2% in each other listed year. Across 2020 through 2024, Alaska accounted for 0.2% of the national total of 27,553 large-truck deaths.^{[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 Alaska truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 12.5%, while People in other vehicles accounted for 37 deaths, or 77.1%. The latter category had the largest share of Alaska truck accident deaths among the listed rows.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" records 5 deaths, or 10.4%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping: pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The label therefore does not impose a literal test of being outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Alaska's fatal crash records counted 48 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors numbered 16, representing 33.3% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 32. The category for large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating contained 26 trucks, or 54.2% of the large-truck count.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Records identified 4 large trucks as jackknifed and 4 as carrying hazardous materials. Each figure in this section counts trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than crashes or people killed. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks. The truck counts therefore use a different unit from the death figures elsewhere in the table.^{[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-coded truck accident deaths in Alaska numbered 0, a 0.0% share of the state's large-truck crash deaths during 2020 through 2024. This classification requires the interstate route code and a parseable I-route number in the recorded roadway identifier.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

No interstate segment met the 20-death threshold for listing. The table's no-qualifying-segment row displays 0 large-truck crash deaths and 0 all-route deaths; these are distinct measures. Route-coded figures describe the supplied subset, not the full road network. Separately, work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 1, counting a death rather than a crash.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

County entries give truck accident deaths, then average annual deaths per 100,000 residents: Anchorage Municipality, 11 and 0.8; Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 11 and 1.9; Fairbanks North Star Borough, 10 and 2.1; Kenai Peninsula Borough, 10 and 3.3; Kodiak Island Borough, 2 and 3.2; Ketchikan Gateway Borough, 1 and 1.5; Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 1 and 3.9; Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, 1 and 2.8.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed rows, Anchorage Municipality and Matanuska-Susitna Borough tied for the highest death count. This is a supplied subset. Rates with small death counts are 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 Alaska compares with the national rate

Alaska's average annual truck accident death rate was 1.3 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024, below the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 48 for Alaska and 27,553 for the United States. These rates use deaths recorded at crash locations, not a count of residents killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census Bureau population estimates across the period. Alaska's separately displayed July 1, 2024 population of 736,537 is not that denominator. Neither mileage nor visitors are adjustments in this calculation. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer can distinguish population-based rates from death counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Head-on deaths numbered 16. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 13 deaths, meaning no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; transport includes vehicles stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime deaths numbered 36 (75.0%); nighttime deaths, 12 (25.0%). Urban deaths numbered 19 (39.6%); rural deaths, 29 (60.4%). Separately, crash configuration recorded single-vehicle deaths of 7 (14.6%), two-vehicle deaths of 31 (64.6%), and deaths in crashes involving three or more vehicles of 10 (20.8%). Configuration counts vehicles involved, distinct from collision manner.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Alaska, 3 died in single-vehicle crashes and 3 in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These equal counts describe truck occupants only. They are a subset of all people killed in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Alaska's FARS records cover fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways 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]

Records for 2020 through 2023 are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Alaska's rates divide period deaths by summed annual Census Bureau estimates, Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. This gives average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without mileage or visitor adjustments. The separately shown July 1, 2024 estimate is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Alaska car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)