Georgia truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Georgia by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 235 in 2020, 246 in 2021, 270 in 2022, 188 in 2023 and 197 in 2024. Their shares of all Georgia traffic deaths were 14.2%, 13.6%, 15.0%, 11.7% and 14.0%, respectively. Both deaths and their share were highest in 2022 and lowest in 2023. The 2024 death count was 38 lower than in 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Georgia's shares of the national large-truck death total were 4.8%, 4.2%, 4.5%, 3.4% and 3.7% across those years, respectively. For the full period, Georgia accounted for 4.1% of 27,553 national deaths. All traffic deaths reached their highest annual count in 2021, at 1,809.^{[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 Georgia truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 799 truck accident deaths, or 70.3%. People in the large truck accounted for 199 deaths, or 17.5%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" records 138 deaths, or 12.1%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label identifies 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 other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. Each share uses all deaths in Georgia's qualifying truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Georgia involved 1,120 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors numbered 672 and represented 60.0% of those trucks. The category single-unit and other large trucks recorded 448 vehicles. Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 798, accounting for 71.2% of the large trucks involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records also identify 37 large trucks as jackknifed and 28 as carrying hazardous materials. These truck accident figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or people who died. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. For 2024, NHTSA's published large-truck count for Georgia is 189, matching the derived 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 numbered 358, representing 31.5% of Georgia's total. Listed route counts for large-truck crash deaths were I-75, 118; I-20, 66; I-85, 55; I-285, 37; I-95, 36; and I-16, 28. The corresponding all-death route counts were 391, 246, 200, 163, 83 and 65, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Those all-death figures are distinct from deaths in large-truck crashes. The listed routes form a route-coded subset, not a complete road network. Separately, work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 47. That work-zone measure counts people who died, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Fulton County had the highest truck accident death count, 69, with an average annual rate of 1.3 per 100,000 residents. DeKalb County recorded 55 deaths and a rate of 1.4; Gwinnett County recorded 41 and 0.8; Cobb County recorded 36 and 0.9.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Bartow County recorded 31 deaths and the highest rate among the listed counties, 5.5. Gwinnett County's rate was the lowest among those rows. The county listing is a subset; counts and rates measure different things, and 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 Georgia compares with the national rate

Georgia's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.1 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The death totals associated with those rates are 1,136 for Georgia and 27,553 for the United States across 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census population estimates for the entire period. Georgia's separately displayed July 1, 2024 population of 11,204,208 is not that denominator. Neither rate adjusts for miles driven or visitors. For a reader searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping to remember is crash location, rather than the home address of anyone killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event: angle collisions recorded 359 deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 285; this means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include a vehicle stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 692; nighttime deaths numbered 442. Urban deaths numbered 618; rural deaths numbered 514. Separately, crash configuration recorded 211 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 738 in two-vehicle crashes and 187 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration and manner of collision are distinct classifications.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Georgia, 108 were in single-vehicle crashes and 91 were in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These figures describe truck occupants only. They are a subset of truck accident deaths, which also include other person categories.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Georgia'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 a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county counts follow crash location, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

For Georgia, 2020 through 2023 use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide period deaths by summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They do not use only the latest population or adjust for mileage or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-16 truck accidents in Georgia (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Georgia car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Liability and comparative fault in Georgia (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)