Mississippi truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Mississippi by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 84 in 2020, 104 in 2021, 87 in 2022, 105 in 2023 and 103 in 2024. Their shares of Mississippi traffic deaths were 11.2%, 13.6%, 12.4%, 14.3% and 13.7%, respectively. Deaths and their traffic-death share were highest in 2023 and lowest in 2020. The 2024 death count was 19 higher than in 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Mississippi's shares of national large-truck deaths were 1.7%, 1.8%, 1.5%, 1.9% and 1.9% in those years. The highest national share was tied in 2023 and 2024; the lowest was in 2022. For the full period, Mississippi accounted for 1.8% 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 Mississippi truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 350 truck accident deaths, or 72.5%. People in the large truck accounted for 92 deaths, or 19.0%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 41 deaths, or 8.5%.^{[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. These categories classify people killed, rather than trucks involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Mississippi's fatal crashes involved 470 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors numbered 309, representing 65.7% of those trucks. The single-unit and other large trucks category contained 161 vehicles. These are vehicle counts: a truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the figures do not count fatal crashes or people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 347, or 73.8% of the large trucks involved. Records identified 5 large trucks as jackknifed and 5 as carrying hazardous materials. Each measure describes trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than a separate tally of truck accident deaths.^{[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 totaled 130, or 26.9% of Mississippi's large-truck crash deaths. In the listed route-coded subset, I-20 recorded 35 large-truck crash deaths, I-55 recorded 33, I-59 recorded 23 and I-10 recorded 22.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

All traffic deaths on those routes were 96, 173, 73 and 64, respectively. Those route totals are distinct from the large-truck death counts. Among the listed rows, I-20 had the highest large-truck death count; I-55 had the highest all-traffic death count. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 6. The listed routes do not represent the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Lauderdale County had the highest truck accident death count at 28, with an average annual rate of 7.8 per 100,000 residents. Harrison County recorded 22 deaths and a rate of 2.1; Jones County recorded 18 and 5.4.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Perry County's 11 deaths corresponded to 19.2, the highest rate among the listed counties. Hinds County recorded 14 deaths and 1.3, the lowest listed rate. Counts and rates describe different measures. These rows are a county subset, and rates with small death counts 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 Mississippi compares with the national rate

Mississippi's average annual truck accident death rate was 3.3 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The state rate was higher. These rates accompany 483 deaths in Mississippi and 27,553 nationally during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator sums annual Census Bureau population estimates for the reporting years, using Vintage 2025. Dividing deaths by that population sum and multiplying by 100,000 produces the average annual rate. Mississippi's separately displayed 2024 population of 2,950,172 is not the denominator. Neither rate adjusts for miles driven or visitors. The counts concern crash locations, rather than the residences of people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Angle collisions recorded 149 deaths. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 111: this means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include vehicles stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 339 deaths; nighttime, 144. Urban locations recorded 118; rural locations, 363; land use was unreported for 2. Separately, crash configuration recorded 93 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 331 in two-vehicle crashes and 59 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. These classifications describe different aspects of truck accident deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died, 58 deaths occurred in single-vehicle crashes and 34 in multiple-vehicle crashes. This truck accident subset concerns truck occupants alone. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that grouping distinct from counts covering everyone killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Mississippi records come from NHTSA 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.^[9][6][7][8]

State and county assignments follow crash locations, not people's residences. Mississippi's 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census population estimates, not the latest population alone. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without mileage or visitor adjustments.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-10 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024)
• I-20 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024)
• I-55 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024)
• I-59 truck accidents in Mississippi (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Mississippi car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Lauderdale County, Mississippi (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Harrison County, Mississippi (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)