Truck accident statistics for Marion County, Florida (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Marion County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 13 in 2020 to 11 in 2021, then to 10 in 2022 and 9 in 2023. The count rose to 11 in 2024. The highest count was 13 in 2020, and the lowest was 9 in 2023. The 2024 count was 2 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual truck accident shares of all traffic deaths were 12.4% in 2020, 11.8% in 2021, 8.9% in 2022, 9.1% in 2023 and 9.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 105, 93, 112, 99 and 113 in those respective years. The lowest truck accident death share occurred in 2022, while the lowest truck accident 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 Marion County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 11.1%. People in other vehicles accounted for 39 deaths, or 72.2%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 9 deaths, or 16.7%. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted row uses the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The label therefore does not mean every person counted was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Marion County involved 53 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 24 and represented 45.3% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 29. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles. It does not count fatal crashes or people killed, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 45.3% truck-tractor share likewise describes the large trucks involved, rather than a share of truck accident deaths.^{[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 25 deaths (46.3%), head-on 5 (9.3%), rear-end 6 (11.1%) and sideswipe 7 (13.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 11 deaths (20.4%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate crash configuration figures assign truck accident deaths to single-vehicle crashes, 7 (13.0%); two-vehicle crashes, 34 (63.0%); and crashes involving three or more vehicles, 13 (24.1%). These shares describe truck accident deaths grouped by the number of vehicles involved in the crash, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 12, or 22.2%, during 2020 through 2024. The listed I-75 count was 12 deaths. Interstate figures require interstate route coding and a readable I-route number; listed routes represent 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., accounted for 42 deaths (77.8%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 12 (22.2%). Urban locations recorded 31 deaths (57.4%), and rural locations recorded 23 (42.6%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These location and time figures count deaths in truck accidents, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Florida and the United States

Marion County's truck accident death rate was 2.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Florida's rate was 1.6, and the United States rate was 1.6. Marion County's rate was higher than each of those rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Lake County recorded 2.8, Volusia County 1.6, Alachua County 2.4 and Sumter County 3.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. Marion County's rate was lower than Lake County's and Sumter County's, and higher than Volusia County's and Alachua County's. The 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.^{[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. Whether reading for statistics or searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the grouping in view: counts follow 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 use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 for 2020 through 2024, rather than the separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 427,995. Dividing deaths by that sum 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 Lake County, Florida (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Alachua County, Florida (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Sumter County, Florida (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Marion County, Florida (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)