Indiana truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Indiana by year

Indiana recorded 152 truck accident deaths in 2020, accounting for 16.9% of traffic deaths; 167 in 2021, or 17.9%; 173 in 2022, or 17.7%; 143 in 2023, or 15.8%; and 145 in 2024, or 17.4%. Deaths were highest in 2022 and lowest in 2023. The traffic-death share was highest in 2021 and lowest in 2023.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The 2024 count was 7 deaths lower than 2020. Indiana's shares of national large-truck deaths were 3.1%, 2.9%, 2.9%, 2.6% and 2.7%, respectively. The reported national share was 2.9% in both 2021 and 2022. Across the period, Indiana accounted for 2.8% of the national total of 27,553 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 Indiana truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 132 deaths, or 16.9%, in Indiana truck accidents. People in other vehicles accounted for 567 deaths, or 72.7%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 81 deaths, or 10.4%.^{[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 motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Indiana fatal crashes involved 808 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 526 trucks, or 65.1%, while the single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 282. The gross vehicle weight rating category for large trucks over 26,000 pounds contained 638 trucks, representing 79.0% of the large trucks counted.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Records identified 25 large trucks as jackknifed and 19 as carrying hazardous materials. These truck accident figures count vehicles rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck total and the fatal-crash total describe different units in Indiana's truck accident records.^{[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 Indiana numbered 230, representing 29.5% of the period's large-truck crash deaths. The listed route counts were 56 on I-65, 41 on I-80, 40 on I-70 and 35 on I-69. Separately, all traffic deaths on those routes numbered 139, 76, 79 and 85, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Those route-coded rows are a supplied subset, not a complete road network. I-65 had the highest large-truck death count among the listed routes. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 73; that measure counts people killed, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed Indiana counties, Marion County had the highest truck accident death count at 71, with an average annual rate of 1.5 per 100,000 residents. Lake County recorded 47 deaths and a rate of 1.9; Allen County recorded 38 and 1.9; Porter County recorded 32 and 3.7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

LaGrange County's 17 deaths corresponded to 8.3, the highest rate among the listed counties. Hamilton County's 13 deaths corresponded to 0.7, the lowest listed rate. These rows do not include every county, 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 Indiana compares with the national rate

Indiana's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.3 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 780 in Indiana and 27,553 nationally. Indiana's rate was higher than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census population estimates across the period. It is not the separately reported July 1, 2024 population of 6,934,754. These rates do not adjust for mileage or visitors. When reading these statistics alongside a search for a truck accident lawyer, keep the population-based rates distinct from the death counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Angle collisions accounted for 266 Indiana deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 167 and means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; transport includes vehicles stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 530; nighttime deaths numbered 250. Urban deaths numbered 283, rural deaths 496, and land use was unreported for 1. Separately, crash configuration recorded 136 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 497 in two-vehicle crashes and 147 in crashes involving three or more vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Indiana during 2020 through 2024, 68 died in single-vehicle crashes and 64 in multiple-vehicle crashes. This truck occupant subset differs from the full truck accident death count, which also includes people in other vehicles and nonoccupants.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Indiana'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 counts follow the recorded crash location, not the deceased person's home.^[9][6][7][8]

Indiana's 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide period deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate is not that denominator. Mileage and visitors are not adjustments.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-65 truck accidents in Indiana (2020-2024)
• I-69 truck accidents in Indiana (2020-2024)
• I-70 truck accidents in Indiana (2020-2024)
• I-80 truck accidents in Indiana (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Indiana car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Marion County, Indiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Lake County, Indiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Allen County, Indiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Porter County, Indiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Elkhart County, Indiana (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)