Oregon truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Oregon by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 73 in 2020, 84 in 2021, 87 in 2022, 97 in 2023 and 83 in 2024. Their shares of Oregon traffic deaths were 14.4%, 14.0%, 14.5%, 16.5% and 15.4%, respectively. The highest death count was in 2023; the lowest was in 2020. The 2024 count was 10 deaths higher than 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Oregon's shares of the national large-truck death total were 1.5%, 1.4%, 1.5%, 1.8% and 1.6% in those respective years. Across the full period, Oregon accounted for 1.5% of the national total. The state's annual traffic-death share was highest in 2023 and lowest in 2021.^{[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 Oregon truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 281 truck accident deaths, or 66.3%, the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 61 deaths, or 14.4%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 82 deaths, or 19.3%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label identifies the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. It is not a literal test of being 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 truck accidents in Oregon involved 380 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 188 trucks, or 49.5%. The single-unit and other large trucks category contained 192 trucks. These are vehicle counts; they do not describe the number of fatal crashes or the number of people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records identified 250 large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating, representing 65.8% of the large trucks counted. They also recorded 10 jackknifed large trucks and 3 large trucks carrying hazardous materials. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count has a distinct counting basis.^{[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 80 in Oregon during 2020 through 2024, representing 18.9% of the state's large-truck crash deaths. The listed route-coded figures show 42 deaths in large-truck crashes on I-5 and 36 on I-84. Separately, all traffic deaths on those routes numbered 136 and 96, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Those route totals must remain distinct from deaths involving large trucks. The listed routes are a route-coded subset, not a complete road network. Work-zone truck accident records counted 14 deaths; that measure counts people killed, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Marion County and Multnomah County tied for the highest truck accident death count at 33 each. Their average annual rates per 100,000 residents were 1.9 and 0.8, respectively. Klamath County and Lane County each recorded 32 deaths, with rates of 9.1 and 1.7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Klamath County had the highest rate among the listed counties. Washington County had the lowest at 0.4, with 13 deaths. These rows are a county subset. Counts and rates measure different things, 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 Oregon compares with the national rate

Oregon's average annual truck accident death rate was 2.0 per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 424 in Oregon and 27,553 nationally. Oregon's population-based 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 displayed 2024 population of 4,265,324. Rates have no mileage or visitor adjustment. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the distinction to retain here is between deaths counted at crash locations and population used to calculate 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 135 deaths, meaning no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; transport includes vehicles stopped in traffic. Head-on collisions recorded 129 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident classifications recorded daytime deaths of 282 and nighttime deaths of 142; urban deaths numbered 127 and rural deaths 297. Crash configuration separately counted 121 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 248 in two-vehicle crashes and 55 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration is distinct from collision manner.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Oregon truck accidents, 44 died in single-vehicle crashes and 17 in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. This truck-occupant subset is distinct from the count of everyone killed in crashes involving a large truck.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Oregon's FARS records cover fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, with death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county assignments follow recorded crash locations, not the homes of those killed.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Average annual deaths per 100,000 residents use deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate is not that denominator. Rates omit mileage and visitor adjustments.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-5 truck accidents in Oregon (2020-2024)
• I-84 truck accidents in Oregon (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Oregon car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Marion County, Oregon (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Multnomah County, Oregon (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Klamath County, Oregon (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Lane County, Oregon (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Deschutes County, Oregon (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)