Truck accident statistics for Hot Spring County, Arkansas (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Hot Spring County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 1 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, then reached their highest count of 10 in 2022. The count fell to 5 in 2023 and 1 in 2024. The lowest count occurred in both 2020 and 2024. Comparing the beginning and end of the period, the death count was the same, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of all traffic deaths followed the same sequence of increases and decreases: 20.0% in 2020, 26.7% in 2021, 52.6% in 2022, 38.5% in 2023 and 16.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 5, 15, 19, 13 and 6 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 Hot Spring County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 12 deaths, or 57.1% of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. People in other vehicles accounted for 8 deaths, or 38.1%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 4.8%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. It is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle: the grouping can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The categories describe people killed, rather than counts of vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Hot Spring County involved 35 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 31 and represented 88.6% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 4. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 3.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this truck accident vehicle breakdown counts trucks. None is a count of deaths or fatal crashes. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 35 vehicles and the county's 18 fatal crashes measure different things.^{[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 recorded 7 deaths (33.3%); sideswipe, 3 (14.3%); angle (side impact), 2 (9.5%); and head-on, 1 (4.8%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths (38.1%). That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle, fixed object or 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, 6 (28.6%); two-vehicle, 11 (52.4%); and three or more vehicles, 4 (19.0%). These shares classify deaths by vehicle count, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 17, or 81.0% of the county total. The listed I-30 count was 17 deaths. These figures require an interstate route code and a readable interstate route number in the road identifier. The listed route counts describe the packet's route-coded subset, rather than the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 16 deaths (76.2%), compared with nighttime's 5 (23.8%). Urban locations recorded 3 deaths (14.3%), and rural locations recorded 18 (85.7%). The work-zone figure was 1 death. These roadway and setting figures count people killed, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Arkansas and the United States

Hot Spring County's truck accident death rate was 12.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Arkansas recorded 3.3, and the United States recorded 1.6 on the same measure. The county rate was higher than both the state and national rates. The corresponding death counts were 21 for the county, 510 for Arkansas and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rate divides deaths by the sum of annual population estimates and expresses the result per 100,000 residents per year. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Deaths are assigned by crash location, not the home county of the people killed. No neighboring county rates are supplied for comparison.^{[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 a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Whether reading for statistics or searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the grouping in mind: county counts follow crash location, not where people lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. They measure average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for mileage or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]