Truck accident statistics for Yuma County, Arizona (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Yuma County by year

Annual truck accident deaths numbered 4 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 4 in 2022, 3 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was 5 in 2021, while the lowest was 3 in 2023. The 2020 and 2024 counts were the same, with a change of 0 deaths between those years. The average annual count for the period was 4.0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 13.3% in 2020, 17.9% in 2021, 16.0% in 2022, 10.7% in 2023 and 16.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 30, 28, 25, 28 and 24 in those respective years.^{[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 Yuma County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 15.0% of truck accident deaths. People in other vehicles accounted for 16 deaths, or 80.0%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 5.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It is therefore not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records identify 19 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 11, accounting for 57.9% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 8. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each measure in this table counts trucks, rather than crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The separate fatal-crash count for Yuma County was 19, while the death count was 20; these figures describe different measures.^{[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. Angle (side impact) accounted for 8 deaths (40.0%), head-on for 5 (25.0%), rear-end for 2 (10.0%) and sideswipe for 1 (5.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 4 deaths (20.0%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object. 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, 4 (20.0%); two-vehicle, 14 (70.0%); and three or more vehicles, 2 (10.0%). Configuration counts vehicles involved, rather than describing the manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 5, or 25.0%. The listed I-8 route count was 5 deaths. Interstate identification requires an interstate route code and a parseable interstate number in the road identifier. These listed route counts cover the packet's route-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 16 deaths (80.0%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 4 (20.0%). Urban locations recorded 9 deaths (45.0%), and rural locations recorded 11 (55.0%). The work-zone count was 1 death, a count of deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Arizona and the United States

Yuma County's truck accident death rate was 1.9 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Arizona's rate was 2.0, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than the state rate and higher than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, rates were 1.1 in Maricopa County, Arizona; 1.2 in Pima County, Arizona; 38.7 in La Paz County, Arizona; and 3.6 in Imperial County, California. La Paz had the highest rate among the listed neighboring counties, and Maricopa had the lowest. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. They measure deaths by crash location against population estimates, rather than deaths among county residents.^{[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 a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts are grouped by crash county, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for La Paz County, Arizona (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Maricopa County, Arizona (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Pima County, Arizona (2020-2024)