Vermont truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Vermont by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 4 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 13 in 2022, 7 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. Their shares of all Vermont traffic deaths were 6.5%, 10.8%, 17.1%, 10.1% and 6.8%, respectively. Deaths were highest in 2022; 2020 and 2024 tied for lowest. The change from 2020 to 2024 was 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Vermont's share of the national large-truck death total was 0.2% in 2022 and 0.1% in each other listed year. Across the full period, Vermont accounted for 0.1% of the national 27,553 deaths. The annual truck accident share was highest in 2022 and lowest in 2020.^{[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 Vermont truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 12 deaths, or 33.3%. People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 61.1%, the largest share among the listed rows. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 5.6%.^{[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 grouping can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Vermont's fatal crashes involved 36 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors accounted for 12 trucks, or 33.3%; the Single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 24. The count of large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating was 23, representing 63.9% of the large trucks in these fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Records identified 2 large trucks as jackknifed and 1 as carrying hazardous materials. Each figure here counts trucks, rather than truck accident deaths or fatal crashes. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count and the crash count describe different units in the Vermont data.^{[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 3, accounting for 8.3% of Vermont's large-truck crash deaths. The interstate classification requires the recorded interstate route category and a parseable I-route number. Work-zone records separately counted 2 deaths in large-truck crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

No interstate segment met the 20-death threshold for route listing. The table's 0 entries accompany that threshold message; they do not replace the statewide interstate count. Its columns distinguish large-truck crash deaths from all deaths on a listed route. Route-coded listings represent a subset, rather than the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Rutland County had the highest truck accident death count, 8, with a rate of 2.6. Franklin County recorded 7 and 2.8; Windham County, 5 and 2.2. Addison County, Caledonia County, Orleans County and Windsor County each recorded 3 deaths, with respective rates of 1.6, 2.0, 2.2 and 1.0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Orange County recorded 2 deaths and 1.3; Bennington County, 1 and 0.5; Washington County, 1 and 0.3. Rates are average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. These supplied rows are a county subset, not a complete statewide listing.^{[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 Vermont compares with the national rate

Vermont's average annual truck accident death rate was 1.1 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 36 in Vermont and 27,553 nationally. Vermont'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 is not simply the 2024 population of 646,521. Rates do not adjust for mileage or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the rate's population denominator distinct from the crash-location basis used to assign deaths to Vermont.^{[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" means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic; it recorded 12 deaths. Angle recorded 10, head-on 9, rear-end 3 and sideswipe 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 30; nighttime, 6. Urban deaths numbered 5; rural, 31. Separate crash-configuration figures were single-vehicle, 11; two-vehicle, 21; and three or more vehicles, 4. These configuration counts describe vehicle involvement, distinct from the first harmful event and the time or land-use classifications.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck occupant deaths by crash configuration

People in the large truck who died in single-vehicle crashes numbered 9, compared with 3 in multiple-vehicle crashes. These Vermont counts cover truck occupants only. They are a subset of truck accident deaths, distinct from figures that also include people in other vehicles and nonoccupants.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Vermont'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 use crash locations, 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 Vintage 2025 population estimates and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate is not that denominator. Neither mileage nor visitors are included as rate adjustments.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Vermont car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)