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

Truck accident deaths in Ventura County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 5 in 2020 to 7 in 2021, then fell to 5 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 0 in 2024. The highest count was 7 in 2021; the lowest was 0 in 2024. The 2024 count was 5 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 8.5% in 2020, 11.5% in 2021, 8.8% in 2022, 5.6% in 2023 and 0.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 59, 61, 57, 72 and 58, respectively. The highest truck accident share occurred in 2021, while the highest all-traffic death count occurred in 2023.^{[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 Ventura County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 9.5%. People in other vehicles accounted for 17 deaths, or 81.0%, the majority of truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 9.5%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. It therefore does not require every person counted in that row to have been physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Ventura County involved 20 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 8 and represented 40.0% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These truck accident figures count vehicles, distinct from the 19 fatal crashes and 21 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so a truck count does not represent 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) recorded 7 deaths (33.3%); head-on, 5 (23.8%); rear-end, 2 (9.5%); and sideswipe, 3 (14.3%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 4 (19.0%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include striking pedestrians, cyclists, parked vehicles or fixed objects, 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 3 (14.3%) in single-vehicle crashes, 12 (57.1%) in two-vehicle crashes and 6 (28.6%) in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration describes vehicle counts, 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%. This classification requires an interstate route code and a parseable interstate route number in the road identifier. No individual interstate route counts are supplied in the packet; route-coded figures do not describe the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 13 deaths (61.9%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 8 deaths (38.1%). Urban locations recorded 10 deaths (47.6%), and rural locations recorded 11 (52.4%). Work-zone deaths numbered 1. These figures describe deaths in truck accidents, rather than counts of trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with California and the United States

Ventura County's truck accident death rate was 0.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. California's rate was 1.1, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. The corresponding death counts were 21 for Ventura County, 2,101 for California and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Los Angeles County recorded a rate of 0.7 and 326 deaths; Kern County recorded a rate of 3.4 and 154 deaths. Ventura County's rate was lower than each listed neighbor's rate. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. They measure average annual deaths relative to population, rather than deaths per mile traveled.^{[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 a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these counts are grouped by crash location, not 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 divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 833,431 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Kern County, California (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Los Angeles County, California (2020-2024)

On related publications

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