Wyoming truck accident statistics (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Wyoming by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 25 in 2020, 19 in 2021, 30 in 2022, 41 in 2023 and 22 in 2024. Their shares of all traffic deaths were 19.7%, 17.3%, 22.4%, 28.5% and 20.6%, respectively. Both deaths and the truck accident share were highest in 2023 and lowest in 2021. The 2024 death count was 3 lower than in 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Wyoming's shares of national large-truck deaths were 0.5% in 2020, 0.3% in 2021, 0.5% in 2022, 0.7% in 2023 and 0.4% in 2024. Across the full period, Wyoming accounted for 0.5% of the national total of 27,553 deaths in crashes involving large trucks.^{[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 Wyoming truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 50 deaths, or 36.5%, while people in other vehicles accounted for 73, or 53.3%. The latter category had the largest death count among the listed rows. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 14 deaths, or 10.2%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The Wyoming truck accident records include 149 large trucks involved in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Of these, 108 were truck-tractors, representing 72.5%. The category single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 41. Large trucks over 26,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating numbered 115, or 77.2% of the large trucks recorded.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

The vehicle records also identify 14 large trucks as jackknifed and 9 as carrying hazardous materials. Every figure in this section counts trucks, rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count is distinct from the fatal-crash count.^{[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 65 in Wyoming during 2020 through 2024, accounting for 47.4% of the state's large-truck crash deaths. For the listed route, I-80, the records show 55 deaths in large-truck crashes and 95 deaths from all traffic crashes. Those are distinct measures; the all-deaths figure is not a truck accident count.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The route figures describe the supplied route-coded subset, not the full road network. Separately, work-zone records identify 6 deaths in large-truck crashes. That work-zone figure counts people killed, rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Counties with the most truck accident deaths

Among the listed counties, Sweetwater County had the highest truck accident death count at 27, followed by Carbon County at 17 and Albany County at 14. Their average annual deaths per 100,000 residents were 13.0, 23.6 and 7.4, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Carbon County's 23.6 was the highest rate among the listed counties; Natrona County's 1.5 was the lowest, alongside 6 deaths. The supplied county rows are a subset, not every Wyoming county. Counts and rates measure different things, and rates based on 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 Wyoming compares with the national rate

Wyoming's average annual truck accident death rate was 4.7 per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death totals for 2020 through 2024 were 137 for Wyoming and 27,553 for the United States. Wyoming's rate was higher.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The denominator adds the annual Census population estimates across the period; it is not the separately reported 2024 population of 586,722. These rates do not adjust for mileage or visitors. When reading with the phrase "truck accident lawyer" in mind, keep the grouping clear: these are deaths assigned by crash location, not 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" recorded 53 deaths: it means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic. Angle collisions recorded 31 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 86 deaths and nighttime 51; urban locations recorded 22 and rural locations 115. Separately, crash configuration recorded 45 deaths in single-vehicle crashes, 71 in two-vehicle crashes and 21 in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate 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 Wyoming, 33 were in single-vehicle crashes and 17 were in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2020 through 2024. These truck occupant figures describe a subset of truck accident deaths, excluding people in other vehicles and nonoccupants.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

About these figures

Wyoming's FARS records cover fatal crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, involving a motor vehicle and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. State and county assignments follow crash location, not where those killed lived.^[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 population estimates, Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. They exclude mileage and visitor adjustments; the separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not their denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• I-80 truck accidents in Wyoming (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Wyoming car accident statistics (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Truck accident statistics for Sweetwater County, Wyoming (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyer.wiki)