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

Truck accident deaths in Monterey County by year

Annual truck accident deaths numbered 7 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 3 in 2024. The highest count was 8 in 2021; the lowest was 3 in 2024. The 2024 count was 4 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Across the reporting period, the average was 5.8 deaths per year.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 14.0% in 2020, 17.0% in 2021, 12.3% in 2022, 10.3% in 2023 and 6.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 50, 47, 57, 39 and 45 in those respective years. The highest annual truck accident death count and share both occurred in 2021.^{[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 Monterey County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 75.9%, the largest person category in Monterey County's truck accident deaths. People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 10.3%. These categories identify the people who died, rather than counting the vehicles involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounts for 4 deaths, or 13.8%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The vehicle records identify 29 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in Monterey County from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 10 and represented 34.5% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 19. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These truck accident figures count vehicles, not deaths or fatal crashes. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 29 large trucks therefore remain a separate measure from the 28 fatal crashes and 29 deaths recorded during the same 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. Head-on accounted for 12 deaths (41.4%); angle (side impact), 8 (27.6%); rear-end, 2 (6.9%); sideswipe, 0 (0.0%); and Other, 1 (3.4%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 6 deaths (20.7%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, covering events such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 5 (17.2%); two-vehicle, 19 (65.5%); and three or more vehicles, 5 (17.2%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is distinct from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 0, or 0.0%, using the required interstate route classification and a parseable I-route number. No individual interstate route counts are listed in the supplied figures. This route coding does not describe the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 17 deaths (58.6%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 12 (41.4%). Urban locations recorded 10 deaths (34.5%), while rural locations recorded 19 (65.5%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These breakdowns count deaths in truck accidents, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with California and the United States

Monterey County's truck accident death rate was 1.3 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 the state rate and lower than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Fresno County recorded a rate of 2.5 and Kings County a rate of 4.4. Monterey County's rate was lower than both. These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. When reading these figures in a truck accident lawyer search, keep the grouping in mind: deaths are assigned by crash location, not the person's residence.^{[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 on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts follow crash location, not where the people who died lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 433,447 is not the denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

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