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

Truck accident deaths in San Bernardino County by year

Truck accident deaths were unchanged at 51 in 2020 and 51 in 2021, the highest annual counts during the period. The count then fell to 49 in 2022, 43 in 2023 and 38 in 2024. The lowest year was 2024, with 13 fewer deaths than in 2020.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 13.8% in 2020, 12.1% in 2021, 10.6% in 2022, 11.1% in 2023 and 10.9% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 369, 422, 461, 386 and 350 in those respective years. The highest all-traffic death count occurred in 2022, which also had the lowest truck accident share.^{[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 San Bernardino County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 14 deaths, or 6.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 177 deaths, or 76.3%, the largest person category for truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 41 deaths, or 17.7%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accidents involved 224 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 163 and represented 72.8% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 61. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 4.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this table counts vehicles, rather than crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 224 trucks and 208 fatal crashes describe different measures. The truck-tractor share likewise refers to trucks, rather than the 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. Rear-end crashes accounted for 72 deaths, angle (side impact) for 60, head-on for 30, sideswipe for 15 and Other for 4. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 51 deaths. 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: 41 (17.7%); two-vehicle: 139 (59.9%); and three or more vehicles: 52 (22.4%). These shares classify deaths by the number of vehicles involved, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 89, or 38.4%. The listed route-coded counts were I-15: 46; I-215: 15; I-10: 14; and I-40: 12. Interstate identification uses ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. These listed routes are a 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 101 deaths (43.5%), while nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 131 (56.5%). Urban locations recorded 154 deaths (66.4%); rural locations recorded 78 (33.6%). Work-zone deaths numbered 17. These location and time figures count people killed 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

San Bernardino County's truck accident death rate was 2.1 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with California's 1.1 and the United States rate of 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. These rates cover 2020 through 2024 and use the sum of annual Census population estimates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, the rates were 0.7 for Los Angeles County, California; 1.3 for Riverside County, California; 3.4 for Kern County, California; and 1.0 for Clark County, Nevada. Kern County had the highest rate among the listed neighboring counties, and Los Angeles County had the lowest. The rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors; deaths are assigned 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 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. Counts use crash location, not where people lived. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," that location grouping applies to these counts.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 to 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide 2020 to 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. Rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

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