Kansas truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Kansas by year

Annual Kansas truck accident deaths were 70 in 2020, 79 in 2021, 82 in 2022, 89 in 2023 and 66 in 2024. Their shares of all traffic deaths were 16.4%, 18.7%, 20.0%, 23.0% and 19.5%, respectively. Deaths reached their highest count in 2023 and their lowest in 2024; the 2024 count was 4 deaths lower than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Kansas accounted for 1.4% of national large-truck deaths in each of 2020, 2021 and 2022, followed by 1.6% in 2023 and 1.2% in 2024. Across the full period, its share of the national 27,553 deaths was 1.4%. The annual truck accident share was lowest in 2020.^{[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 Kansas truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 80 deaths, or 20.7%, while people in other vehicles accounted for 278, or 72.0%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 28 deaths, or 7.3%, in Kansas truck accidents.^{[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 motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal Kansas truck accidents involved 370 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 245 trucks, or 66.2%. The single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 125 trucks. There were 291 large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, representing 78.6% of the large trucks counted.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records identified 11 large trucks as jackknifed and 11 as carrying hazardous materials. Each figure in this section counts trucks, rather than fatal crashes or people killed. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so these vehicle counts describe a different measure from the Kansas truck accident death total.^{[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 Kansas numbered 67 during 2020 through 2024, representing 17.4% of large-truck crash deaths. The interstate classification uses the recorded route category and a parseable interstate route number. Listed route figures cover the supplied route-coded subset rather than the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

For I-70, the listed figures are 23 deaths in large-truck crashes and 89 deaths from all crashes on the route. Those are distinct measures. Work-zone records separately identified 13 deaths in Kansas large-truck crashes; that figure counts people killed, not trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Sedgwick County had the highest truck accident death count, 34, with an average annual rate of 1.3 per 100,000 residents. Johnson County recorded 15 deaths and a rate of 0.5, the lowest rate among the listed counties. Pratt County's 12 deaths corresponded to 26.3, the highest listed rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Ford County also recorded 12 deaths, with a rate of 7.0; Shawnee County recorded 12 and 1.3. These rows are a county subset. Small death counts can make county 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 Kansas compares with the national rate

The average annual Kansas truck accident death rate was 2.6 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 386 for Kansas and 27,553 for the United States. Kansas had the higher population-based rate among these areas.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census population estimates across the period. It does not use only the separately reported 2024 population of 2,965,252. These rates make no adjustment for miles driven or visitors. When reading with "truck accident lawyer" in mind, keep the death counts and population-based rates distinct.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Kansas recorded 162 angle-collision deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 88 deaths; this means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate classifications recorded 266 daytime deaths, 118 nighttime deaths and 2 with time unreported; urban deaths numbered 84 and rural deaths 302. Crash configuration separately recorded 79 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 258 in two-vehicle crashes and 49 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 Kansas during 2020 through 2024, 56 died in single-vehicle crashes and 24 in multiple-vehicle crashes. This truck-occupant subset is distinct from all truck accident deaths, which also include people in other vehicles and nonoccupants.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Kansas records come from NHTSA FARS, a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public. Inclusion requires an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. State and county counts follow crash location, not residence. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

Records for 2020 through 2023 use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population is not the denominator; rates omit mileage and visitor adjustments.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-70 truck accidents in Kansas (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Kansas car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Sedgwick County, Kansas (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)