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

Truck accident deaths in Kings County by year

Annual truck accident deaths numbered 5 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 11 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest count was 11 in 2023. The lowest count was 5, recorded in both 2020 and 2021. Following the unchanged count in 2021, deaths rose in 2022 and 2023, then fell in 2024. The 2024 count was 1 death higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 18.5% in 2020, 20.0% in 2021, 17.5% in 2022, 28.9% in 2023 and 20.0% in 2024. These annual shares reached their highest value in 2023 and their lowest in 2022.^{[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 Kings County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 31 truck accident deaths, or 91.2%, the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 1 death, or 2.9%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 5.9%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The vehicle count for fatal truck accidents in Kings County from 2020 through 2024 was 32 large trucks. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 22 and represented 68.8% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 10. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures describe vehicles involved in fatal crashes. They are distinct from the 30 fatal crashes and 34 deaths recorded during the period. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count is not a count of separate crashes or people killed.^{[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 15 deaths, or 44.1%; head-on, rear-end and sideswipe each recorded 5 deaths, or 14.7%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 4 deaths, or 11.8%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, with examples including pedestrians, cyclists, parked vehicles, fixed objects and rollovers. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were 3 in single-vehicle crashes, or 8.8%; 27 in two-vehicle crashes, or 79.4%; and 4 in crashes involving three or more vehicles, or 11.8%. Configuration counts vehicles involved rather than describing the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 1, or 2.9%, with I-5 listed at 1 death. Interstate identification requires the interstate route code and a parseable I-route number. The 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., recorded 21 deaths, or 61.8%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., recorded 13 deaths, or 38.2%. Urban locations accounted for 8 deaths, or 23.5%, and rural locations for 26 deaths, or 76.5%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0; that measure counts people killed rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with California and the United States

Kings County's truck accident death rate was 4.4 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. California's rate was 1.1, and the national rate was 1.6. Kings County's rate was higher than both. These rates use deaths at crash locations and population estimates; they do not identify the residence of the people killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Kern County had a rate of 3.4, Fresno County 2.5, Tulare County 2.2 and Monterey County 1.3. Kings County's rate was higher than each listed neighbor's rate. The measure divides deaths by the sum of annual population estimates and multiplies by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^{[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 for a truck accident lawyer, note that these counts group crashes by location, not by where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, rather than the separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 154,119. Dividing deaths by that summed population and multiplying by 100,000 gives average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Fresno County, California (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Kern County, California (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Monterey County, California (2020-2024)

On related publications

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