Maryland truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Maryland by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 56 in 2020, representing 9.8% of all Maryland traffic deaths. The count fell to 41 in 2021, with a 7.3% share, then rose to 62 and 11.0% in 2022. In 2023, deaths reached 72 and the share was 11.6%; both were highest for the period. The lowest count and share occurred in 2021. The 2024 count was 64, with an 11.1% share, and was 8 deaths higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Maryland's shares of national large-truck deaths were 1.1%, 0.7%, 1.0%, 1.3% and 1.2%, respectively, from 2020 through 2024. Across the period, Maryland accounted for 1.1% 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 Maryland truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 208 Maryland truck accident deaths, or 70.5%, the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 38 deaths, or 12.9%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 49 deaths, or 16.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label identifies 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

Maryland's fatal crashes involved 297 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 137 trucks, or 46.1%. The separate category of single-unit and other large trucks contained 160 trucks. Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 209, representing 70.4% of the large trucks counted.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records identified 2 large trucks as jackknifed and 18 as carrying hazardous materials. Every count in this section measures trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than crashes or deaths. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle total and the fatal crash total describe different measures.^{[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 Maryland numbered 87 during 2020 through 2024, representing 29.5% of the state's large-truck crash deaths. The interstate classification uses the recorded route category and a parseable interstate route number.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

For the listed route, I-95, the records show 35 deaths in large-truck crashes and 145 deaths across all traffic crashes. Those are distinct measures; the all-traffic count is not a truck accident count. The listed route is a route-coded subset, not a complete road network. Separately, work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 10.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Prince George's County had the highest truck accident death count at 38, followed by Baltimore County at 34. Their respective average annual rates per 100,000 residents were 0.8 and 0.8. Frederick County recorded 25 deaths and a 1.7 rate; Howard County recorded 22 and 1.3; Anne Arundel County recorded 21 and 0.7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed rows, Garrett County had the highest rate, 6.3, with 9 deaths. Montgomery County had the lowest rate, 0.3, with 14 deaths. These rows are a supplied subset.^{[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 Maryland compares with the national rate

Maryland's average annual truck accident death rate was 1.0 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 295 in Maryland and 27,553 nationally. Maryland's rate was lower than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census population estimates across the period; it does not use only Maryland's July 1, 2024 estimate of 6,245,314. These rates make no adjustment for mileage or visitors. For a reader searching for a truck accident lawyer, the distinction to keep in view here is between death counts and population-based rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 84 deaths (28.5%); it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include a vehicle stopped in traffic. Rear-end collisions recorded 81 deaths (27.5%).^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 167 deaths; nighttime, 128. Urban locations recorded 215; rural locations, 76; land use was unreported for 4. Separately, crash configuration counted 65 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 177 in two-vehicle crashes and 53 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 Maryland, 28 were in single-vehicle crashes and 10 were in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These figures describe truck occupants only, a distinct subset of all people killed in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Maryland's records come from FARS, 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 assignments follow crash location, not the deceased person's residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000. The separate 2024 population is not the denominator; mileage and visitors are unadjusted.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-95 truck accidents in Maryland (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Maryland car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Prince George's County, Maryland (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Baltimore County, Maryland (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Frederick County, Maryland (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Howard County, Maryland (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Anne Arundel County, Maryland (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)