Florida truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Florida by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 344 in 2020, 372 in 2021, 371 in 2022, 340 in 2023 and 353 in 2024. Their shares of Florida traffic deaths were 10.3%, 9.9%, 10.5%, 10.1% and 11.2%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2021 and lowest in 2023; the 2024 count was 9 deaths higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Florida's shares of national large-truck deaths were 7.0%, 6.4%, 6.2%, 6.2% and 6.6% across those years. That share was highest in 2020 and tied for lowest in 2022 and 2023. Across the full period, Florida accounted for 6.5% of the national total. The state's truck accident share of traffic deaths was highest 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 Florida truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 1,241 truck accident deaths, or 69.7%, the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 237 deaths, or 13.3%. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 302 deaths and 17.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. The grouping therefore does not apply a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Florida fatal crashes involved 1,768 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors numbered 862, accounting for 48.8% of those trucks. The category single-unit and other large trucks recorded 906. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating over 26,000 pounds numbered 1,158, or 65.5% of the large trucks involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Records identified 28 large trucks as jackknifed and 37 as carrying hazardous materials. These truck accident figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or deaths, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share and weight-rating share each use the large-truck count as their denominator; neither is a share of people killed.^{[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 numbered 331 in Florida, representing 18.6% of the period's large-truck crash deaths. Listed route counts for deaths in large-truck crashes were 109 on I-75, 103 on I-95, 55 on I-10 and 32 on I-4.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

All traffic deaths on those routes were 437, 620, 215 and 189, respectively, a separate measure from large-truck crash deaths. The listed routes form a route-coded subset, not a full road network. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 63; this figure counts people killed rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Polk County had the highest truck accident death count, 115, and highest average annual rate, 2.9 per 100,000 residents. Hillsborough County recorded 110 deaths and a rate of 1.4; Palm Beach County recorded 96 and 1.3. Miami-Dade County had 91 deaths and the lowest listed rate, 0.7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Broward County recorded 78 deaths and a rate of 0.8. Collier County had the lowest listed death count, 37, with a rate of 1.9. These county rows are a supplied subset, not every Florida county.^{[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 Florida compares with the national rate

Florida and the United States each recorded an average annual truck accident death rate of 1.6 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. The corresponding death counts were 1,780 for Florida and 27,553 nationally. Equal displayed rates do not mean equal death counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each rate divides deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates for the period, then multiplies by 100,000. Florida's separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 23,265,838 is not the denominator. These rates make no adjustment for mileage or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep these population-based rates distinct from crash counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event: angle collisions recorded 547 deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 475 and means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; vehicles stopped in traffic count as in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 1,046; nighttime deaths numbered 734. Urban deaths numbered 1,103 and rural deaths 668. Separate crash-configuration counts were 357 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 1,076 in two-vehicle crashes and 347 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts vehicles involved, separately from collision manner.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Florida during 2020 through 2024, 120 died in single-vehicle crashes and 117 in multiple-vehicle crashes. These truck accident figures describe truck occupants alone, a subset distinct from everyone killed in crashes involving large trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Florida's source, NHTSA FARS, is a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county counts 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 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 populations and multiply by 100,000. The separate 2024 population is not the denominator; mileage and visitors receive no adjustment.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-10 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)
• I-4 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)
• I-75 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)
• I-95 truck accidents in Florida (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Florida car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Polk County, Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Hillsborough County, Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Palm Beach County, Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Miami-Dade County, Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Broward County, Florida (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)