Nevada truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Nevada by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 39 in 2020, 62 in 2021, 46 in 2022, 57 in 2023 and 43 in 2024. Their shares of Nevada traffic deaths were 11.7%, 16.1%, 11.0%, 14.0% and 10.3%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2021 and lowest in 2020; 2024 recorded 4 deaths higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Nevada's shares of national large-truck deaths were 0.8%, 1.1%, 0.8%, 1.0% and 0.8% in chronological order. The lowest share was tied across 2020, 2022 and 2024. Across the period, Nevada accounted for 0.9% of the national total. All traffic deaths reached their highest count, 417, in both 2022 and 2024.^{[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 Nevada truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 150 truck accident deaths, or 60.7%. People in the large truck accounted for 48 deaths, or 19.4%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" records 49 deaths and 19.8%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label denotes the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle. People in other vehicles were the largest person category by deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Nevada's fatal crash records include 227 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 124 trucks, or 54.6%, while the single-unit and other large trucks category contained 103. The count of large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating was 148, representing 65.2% of the large trucks recorded.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The truck accident vehicle figures also identify 1 large truck recorded as jackknifed and 7 large trucks carrying hazardous materials. Each figure counts trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than crashes or people killed. Multiple large trucks can be involved in a crash, so vehicle counts and crash counts describe separate 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 numbered 70 in Nevada during 2020 through 2024, accounting for 28.3% of large-truck crash deaths. The listed route figures show 34 deaths in large-truck crashes on I-15 and 28 on I-80.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

All traffic deaths on those routes were 109 on I-15 and 102 on I-80, separate from their large-truck death counts. These listed routes represent the supplied route-coded subset, rather than the full road network. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 11; that figure counts people killed, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Clark County had the highest truck accident death count, 116, with an average annual rate of 1.0 per 100,000 residents. Nye County recorded 24 deaths and a rate of 8.8; Washoe County recorded 23 and 0.9.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Esmeralda County recorded 6 deaths and the highest listed rate, 161.9. Douglas County had the lowest listed count, 1, and rate, 0.4. These rows are a county subset. Counts and rates measure different things, and rates for counties with few deaths can change sharply with 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 Nevada compares with the national rate

Nevada's average annual truck accident death rate was 1.6 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024, matching the national rate of 1.6. The death counts underlying those rates were 247 for Nevada and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each rate uses deaths divided by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates for the reporting years, multiplied by 100,000. Nevada's separately reported 2024 population of 3,253,543 is not that denominator. Neither rate adjusts for mileage or visitors. For a reader searching for a truck accident lawyer, these figures remain grouped by crash location, rather than residence.^{[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" accounted for 90 deaths: it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic. Head-on collisions recorded 56 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 147; nighttime deaths numbered 100. Urban deaths numbered 122, rural deaths 124, and land use was unreported for 1. Separately, crash configuration counted 62 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 130 in two-vehicle crashes and 55 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 Nevada truck accidents, 28 were in single-vehicle crashes and 20 were in multiple-vehicle crashes. These figures describe truck occupants specifically. They are distinct from counts covering everyone killed in large-truck crashes, including people in other vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Nevada'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 assignments 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 populations, multiplied into deaths per 100,000, without mileage or visitor adjustments. The separate July 1, 2024 population is not the denominator for Nevada's average annual truck accident death rate.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-15 truck accidents in Nevada (2020-2024)
• I-80 truck accidents in Nevada (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Nevada car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Clark County, Nevada (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Nye County, Nevada (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Washoe County, Nevada (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)