Utah truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Utah by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 40 in 2020, 67 in 2021, 51 in 2022, 63 in 2023 and 49 in 2024. Their shares of Utah traffic deaths were 14.5%, 20.2%, 16.0%, 22.5% and 17.7%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2021 and lowest in 2020; the traffic-death share was highest in 2023.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The 2024 death count was 9 higher than 2020. Utah's shares of national large-truck deaths were 0.8%, 1.2%, 0.9%, 1.2% and 0.9% across those years. The highest national share was tied in 2021 and 2023; 2020 had the lowest. Across the full period, Utah accounted for 1.0% 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 Utah truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 55 deaths, or 20.4%, while People in other vehicles accounted for 187, or 69.3%. The latter category had the largest share of Utah truck accident deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" records 28 deaths, or 10.4%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping: pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other or unknown nonoccupants. It can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, so the label does not impose a literal outside-the-vehicle test.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Utah fatal crashes involved 255 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 131 trucks and 51.4% of that count. The Single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 124 trucks. Trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating over 26,000 pounds numbered 164, representing 64.3% of the large trucks involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The records also identify 8 large trucks as jackknifed and 2 as carrying hazardous materials. Each figure describes trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than a count of truck accident deaths or crashes. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so vehicle counts and crash counts remain distinct 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 83 in Utah during 2020 through 2024, representing 30.7% of large-truck crash deaths. The listed I-15 row records 51 deaths in large-truck crashes and 166 deaths from all traffic crashes on that route. Those figures describe different groups of deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The route figures use interstate coding and a parseable interstate route number in the FARS records. The listed route is a route-coded subset, not a complete road network. Separately, work-zone records identify 8 deaths in large-truck crashes, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Salt Lake County had the highest truck accident death count, 44, followed by Utah County with 30 and Weber County with 19. Their average annual deaths per 100,000 residents were 0.7, 0.9 and 1.4, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Grand County recorded 12 deaths and the highest rate among the listed counties, 24.7. Davis County recorded 9 deaths and the lowest listed rate, 0.5. These rows do not cover every Utah county. County death counts and population-based rates are separate measures, 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 Utah compares with the national rate

Utah'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 corresponding death counts were 270 for Utah and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The calculation divides deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, then multiplies by 100,000. Utah's separately displayed 2024 population of 3,502,983 is not that denominator. These rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. When reading these figures alongside a search for a truck accident lawyer, keep their grouping by crash location separate from the population denominator.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Manner of collision and setting

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Utah's "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" row counts 79 deaths: it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include a vehicle stopped in traffic. Angle collisions recorded 67 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 168; nighttime deaths numbered 102. Urban deaths were 122 and rural deaths were 148. Separately, crash configuration records 60 single-vehicle deaths, 146 two-vehicle deaths and 64 deaths in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration differs from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

Among people in the large truck who died in Utah, 37 died in single-vehicle crashes and 18 in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These truck accident figures concern truck occupants only, a subset distinct from everyone killed in crashes involving large trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Utah'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 recorded crash locations, not where people lived.^[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 estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied into deaths per 100,000 residents. They exclude mileage and visitor adjustments; the separately shown July 1, 2024 population is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-15 truck accidents in Utah (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Utah car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Salt Lake County, Utah (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Utah County, Utah (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)