Truck accident statistics for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Tuscaloosa County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 2 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, fell to 3 in 2022, and then rose to 4 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was 6 in 2021; the lowest was 2 in 2020. The 2024 count was 3 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 5.4% in 2020, 12.5% in 2021, 6.8% in 2022, 12.9% in 2023 and 14.3% in 2024. All traffic deaths were 37, 48, 44, 31 and 35 in those respective years. While 2021 had the highest truck accident death count, 2024 had the highest share of traffic deaths in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Deaths within 30 days in crashes on public roads. 2024 figures come from the FARS Annual Report File and can be revised.

Who died in Tuscaloosa County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 0 deaths, or 0.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 18 deaths, or 90.0%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 2 deaths, or 10.0%. These categories describe people who died in the county's truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted label represents 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 whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Tuscaloosa County involved 18 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, accounted for 11 trucks and 61.1% of the large trucks recorded. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 7 trucks. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts within fatal crashes, not counts of truck accident deaths or separate crashes. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 18 large trucks therefore describe a different measure from the county's 17 fatal crashes and 20 deaths during the period.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Counts are trucks, not crashes. One crash can involve more than one large truck.

How the fatal truck crashes happened

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Rear-end collisions accounted for 9 deaths, or 45.0%; angle (side impact), 5 and 25.0%; head-on, 3 and 15.0%; and sideswipe, 2 and 10.0%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 1 death, or 5.0%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a fixed object or a rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 1 and 5.0%; two-vehicle, 14 and 70.0%; and three or more vehicles, 5 and 25.0%. Configuration describes vehicle involvement separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 11, representing 55.0% of the county's truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. The listed route-coded counts were 9 deaths for I-59 and 2 for I-359. These figures require ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed routes are a coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 12 deaths, or 60.0%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 8 deaths, or 40.0%. Urban classifications recorded 8 deaths and 40.0%; rural classifications recorded 12 and 60.0%. Work-zone records accounted for 2 deaths, a death count rather than a truck or crash count.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Alabama and the United States

Tuscaloosa County's truck accident death rate was 1.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Alabama's rate was 2.8, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than the state rate and higher than the national rate. Jefferson County, the listed neighboring county, recorded a rate of 1.8, compared with Tuscaloosa County's 1.7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates use deaths recorded by crash location and the sum of annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers using the phrase "truck accident lawyer," the relevant grouping here remains deaths by crash location, not the home county of the people who died.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates, so they show deaths per 100,000 residents per year. They do not adjust for miles driven or for visitors.

About these figures

FARS is NHTSA's census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. County counts use crash location, not residence. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, subject to revision.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The result is average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, without adjustment for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 240,880 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Jefferson County, Alabama (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)