Truck accident statistics for Imperial County, California (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Imperial County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 1 in 2020 to 19 in 2021, then fell to 4 in 2022. The count remained at 4 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest year was 2021, while 2020 had the lowest count. The 2024 count was 3 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 3.4% in 2020, 34.5% in 2021, 10.0% in 2022, 23.5% in 2023 and 15.4% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 29, 55, 40, 17 and 26, respectively. Although truck accident deaths were unchanged from 2022 through 2024, their share of all traffic deaths changed each year.^{[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 Imperial County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 1 death, or 3.1%. People in other vehicles accounted for 28 deaths, or 87.5%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 9.4%.^{[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 other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records list 19 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 17, representing 89.5% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 2. The records also identify 1 large truck as jackknifed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles, not crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 19 trucks and 17 fatal crashes describe different measures. The jackknifed figure likewise counts trucks, rather than deaths or crashes.^{[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 17 deaths, or 53.1%; head-on for 2, or 6.2%; rear-end for 5, or 15.6%; and sideswipe for 4, or 12.5%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 4 deaths, or 12.5%. It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or impact with a parked vehicle. Vehicles in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 4, or 12.5%; two-vehicle: 21, or 65.6%; and three or more vehicles: 7, or 21.9%. Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 3, or 9.4%. The listed route-coded counts were 2 deaths for I-8 and 1 for I-5. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable interstate number in the road identifier. They describe the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 25 deaths, or 78.1%; nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 7, or 21.9%. Urban records listed 1 death, or 3.1%, and rural records listed 31, or 96.9%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These are death counts, including the work-zone figure, rather than truck counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with California and the United States

Imperial County's truck accident death rate was 3.6 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. California's rate was 1.1, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than both.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Riverside County, California had a rate of 1.3; San Diego County, California, 0.6; La Paz County, Arizona, 38.7; and Yuma County, Arizona, 1.9. Imperial County's rate was lower than La Paz County's and higher than the other listed neighbors. These rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors, and they group deaths by crash location.^{[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 covers fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, with a 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; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, subject to revision when replaced by the Final File. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 182,771 is not the rate denominator. Dividing deaths by that summed population and multiplying by 100,000 yields average annual deaths per 100,000 residents.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for La Paz County, Arizona (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Yuma County, Arizona (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Riverside County, California (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Imperial County, California (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)