Truck accident statistics for Adams County, Colorado (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Adams County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 6 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, rose to 9 in 2022, fell to 5 in 2023 and rose to 9 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2022 and 2024, while 2021 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 occurring in truck accidents followed a separate sequence: 11.3% in 2020, 6.2% in 2021, 11.1% in 2022, 7.8% in 2023 and 10.7% in 2024. Across all traffic crashes, annual deaths were 53, 65, 81, 64 and 84, respectively. These yearly figures count deaths, rather than the number of fatal crashes.^{[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 Adams County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 12.1%. People in other vehicles accounted for 24 deaths, or 72.7%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 5 deaths, or 15.2%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records list 32 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 19 and represented 59.4% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13. The records also identify 1 large truck as jackknifed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this section counts vehicles. A truck crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck counts are distinct from fatal crash counts and death counts. The jackknifed figure likewise describes a truck, rather than a death or a crash.^{[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 9 deaths, or 27.3%; head-on for 5, or 15.2%; rear-end for 6, or 18.2%; and sideswipe for 3, or 9.1%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 10 deaths, or 30.3%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, with examples including a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle, fixed object or rollover. 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: 8, or 24.2%; two-vehicle: 18, or 54.5%; and three or more vehicles: 7, or 21.2%. Configuration counts vehicles involved and is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 9, or 27.3%. The listed route counts were I-76: 3 deaths; I-25: 3 deaths; and I-70: 3 deaths. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable I-route number in the roadway identifier. The listed routes represent the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 14 deaths, or 42.4%, and nighttime for 19 deaths, or 57.6%. Urban locations accounted for 28 deaths, or 84.8%; rural locations accounted for 5 deaths, or 15.2%. The work-zone count was 1 death. That work-zone figure counts deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Colorado and the United States

The Adams County truck accident death rate was 1.2 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Colorado's rate was 1.6, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. These rates use deaths at the crash location, not deaths grouped by the home address of the person killed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Weld County had a rate of 4.6, Denver County had 0.7 and Arapahoe County had 0.6. Adams County's rate was lower than Weld County's and higher than Denver County's and Arapahoe County's. Rates divide deaths by the sum of annual population estimates and do 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, these counts are grouped by where the crash happened, not where the people killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and may be revised. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Arapahoe County, Colorado (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Denver County, Colorado (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Weld County, Colorado (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Adams County, Colorado (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)