Idaho truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Idaho by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 52 in 2020, 45 in 2021, 37 in 2022, 62 in 2023 and 46 in 2024. Their shares of Idaho traffic deaths were 24.3%, 16.5%, 17.2%, 22.5% and 19.3%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2023 and lowest in 2022; the 2024 count was 6 lower than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Idaho's annual shares of national large-truck deaths were 1.1%, 0.8%, 0.6%, 1.1% and 0.9%, respectively, with 2020 and 2023 tied for highest. Across the period, Idaho accounted for 0.9% of 27,553 national deaths. The state's truck accident share of traffic deaths was highest in 2020 and lowest in 2021.^{[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 Idaho truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 179 truck accident deaths, or 74.0%. People in the large truck accounted for 50 deaths, or 20.7%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 13 deaths, or 5.4%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping: 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. These person categories describe who died in Idaho's fatal large-truck crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Idaho involved 248 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 146 trucks, or 58.9%, while the single-unit and other large trucks category contained 102. Trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 184, representing 74.2% of the large trucks counted.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records identified 7 large trucks as jackknifed and 7 as carrying hazardous materials. Each figure in this section counts trucks, rather than truck accident deaths or fatal crashes. Multiple large trucks can be involved in a crash, so the vehicle counts describe a different unit from the death and crash totals 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 crashes involving large trucks accounted for 47 deaths in Idaho, or 19.4% of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. The listed I-84 row records 30 deaths in large-truck crashes and 89 deaths from all traffic crashes on that route. Those columns measure different groups of deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The route figures use interstate coding and a parseable interstate route number in the crash records. The listed route is a coded subset, not a complete road network. Separately, work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 15 during the period.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Canyon County had the highest truck accident death count, 23, with an average annual rate of 1.8 per 100,000 residents. Jerome County recorded 22 deaths and the highest listed rate, 17.4. Twin Falls County recorded 18 deaths and a rate of 3.8.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Elmore County and Kootenai County each recorded 15 deaths, with rates of 10.3 and 1.6, respectively. Ada County had 13 deaths and the lowest listed rate, 0.5. These rows are a county subset; rates based on few deaths 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 Idaho compares with the national rate

Idaho's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.5 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The underlying death counts were 242 for Idaho and 27,553 for the United States during 2020 through 2024. Idaho's rate was higher than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each rate divides deaths by summed annual Census population estimates for the period and multiplies by 100,000. Idaho's separately displayed 2024 population of 2,000,872 is not that denominator. Neither mileage nor visitors are adjustments in this measure. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should distinguish these population-based rates 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 73 deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 52; this means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime recorded 174 deaths and nighttime 67; time was unreported for 1. Urban deaths numbered 43 and rural deaths 199. Separately, crash configuration counted 42 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 154 in two-vehicle crashes and 46 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 Idaho, 29 were in single-vehicle crashes and 21 were in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. This truck-occupant subset is distinct from the full truck accident death count, which also includes other vehicle occupants and nonoccupants.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Idaho's source, NHTSA FARS, is a 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 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 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates, multiplied into deaths per 100,000, without mileage or visitor adjustments. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-84 truck accidents in Idaho (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Idaho car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Canyon County, Idaho (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Jerome County, Idaho (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)