Arizona truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Arizona by year

Annual truck accident deaths in Arizona were 121 in 2020, 144 in 2021, 177 in 2022, 155 in 2023 and 140 in 2024. Their shares of all traffic deaths were 11.5%, 12.1%, 13.4%, 11.9% and 11.4%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2022 and lowest in 2020; the 2024 count was 19 higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Arizona's shares of the national large-truck death total were 2.4% in 2020, 2.5% in 2021, 3.0% in 2022, 2.8% in 2023 and 2.6% in 2024. Across the period, Arizona accounted for 2.7% of the national total. The state's traffic-death share peaked in 2022 and was lowest in 2024.^{[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 Arizona truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 128 deaths, or 17.4%, in Arizona truck accidents. People in other vehicles accounted for 521 deaths, or 70.7%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 88 deaths, or 11.9%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping: pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle. People in other vehicles constituted the majority of deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Arizona's fatal truck accident records included 709 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 443 trucks, or 62.5%. The category labeled single-unit and other large trucks contained 266 trucks. These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes, rather than the crashes themselves or the people who died.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 506, representing 71.4% of the large trucks counted. Records identified 24 large trucks as jackknifed and 21 as carrying hazardous materials. A fatal truck crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count remains distinct from the fatal-crash count.^{[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 truck accident deaths in Arizona numbered 285, representing 38.7% of the period's large-truck crash deaths. The listed route-coded counts were 142 on I-10, 88 on I-40 and 30 on I-17. Separate counts for all traffic deaths on those routes were 366, 162 and 140, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

These listed routes form the supplied route-coded subset, not a full road network. Among the listed rows, I-10 had the highest large-truck death count. Arizona also recorded 41 work-zone truck accident deaths; that figure counts people killed, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Maricopa County had the highest truck accident death count at 256, with an average annual rate of 1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents. Yavapai County recorded 70 deaths and a rate of 5.7; Pima County recorded 63 and 1.2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

La Paz County's 32 deaths corresponded to 38.7 deaths per 100,000 residents, the highest rate among the listed counties. Santa Cruz County had 2 deaths and the lowest listed rate, 0.8. These rows are a supplied 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 Arizona compares with the national rate

Arizona's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.0 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The respective death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 737 and 27,553. These rates use deaths recorded at crash locations, without identifying those killed as residents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census Bureau population estimates for the period, using Vintage 2025, and the calculation multiplies deaths divided by that sum by 100,000. Arizona's separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 7,556,424 is not the denominator. The rates make no adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^{[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" accounted for 186 deaths (25.2%); it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include vehicles stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 431 deaths and nighttime 305; urban locations recorded 321 and rural locations 411. Separately, crash configuration recorded 140 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 414 in two-vehicle crashes and 183 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. These configuration figures classify vehicle involvement separately from the manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

People in the large truck who died in Arizona included 65 in single-vehicle crashes and 63 in multiple-vehicle crashes. This truck accident subset concerns truck occupants only. When reading with a truck accident lawyer in mind, keep that grouping distinct from everyone killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Arizona's figures come from FARS, NHTSA's census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

Arizona state and county assignments follow recorded crash locations, not the deceased person's residence. Records for 2020 through 2023 are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census estimates, not the separate July 1, 2024 estimate, without adjustments for mileage or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-10 truck accidents in Arizona (2020-2024)
• I-17 truck accidents in Arizona (2020-2024)
• I-40 truck accidents in Arizona (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Arizona car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Maricopa County, Arizona (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Yavapai County, Arizona (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Pima County, Arizona (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Mohave County, Arizona (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Pinal County, Arizona (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)