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

Truck accident deaths in Orange County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 13 in 2020 to 15 in 2021 and 16 in 2022. The count then fell to 10 in 2023 before rising to 23 in 2024. The highest count was in 2024, and the lowest was in 2023. The 2024 count was 10 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 7.5% in 2020, 6.9% in 2021, 7.8% in 2022, 5.8% in 2023 and 14.6% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 174, 216, 205, 172 and 158 in those respective years. While truck accident deaths reached their highest count in 2024, all traffic deaths reached their lowest count that year.^{[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 Orange County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 10 deaths, or 13.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 47 deaths, or 61.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 20 deaths, or 26.0%, of truck accident deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The FARS nonoccupant grouping is what that quoted label denotes, encompassing pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Whether someone was outside a vehicle is not literally what the grouping tests: occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, can fall within the other category.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accident records for 2020 through 2024 included 83 large trucks. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 37 and represented 44.6% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 46. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 75 fatal crashes and 77 deaths recorded during the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 44.6% truck-tractor share therefore describes the large trucks involved, rather than the share of crashes or the share of people who died.^{[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 recorded 24 deaths (31.2%), angle (side impact) 14 (18.2%), head-on 4 (5.2%), sideswipe 0 (0.0%) and other 1 (1.3%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 34 deaths (44.2%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, 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 describe truck accident deaths by vehicle count: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 20 deaths (26.0%), two-vehicle crashes for 42 (54.5%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 15 (19.5%).^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 7, or 9.1%, with I-4 listed at 7 deaths. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number. The listed route counts 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 37 deaths (48.1%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 40 (51.9%). Urban locations recorded 66 deaths (85.7%), rural locations 6 (7.8%), and locations with land use not reported 5 (6.5%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 6; that figure counts deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Florida and the United States

Orange County's truck accident death rate was 1.0 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with 1.6 for Florida and 1.6 for the United States. Rates for the listed neighboring counties were 2.9 in Polk County, 2.8 in Lake County, 1.6 in Volusia County and 1.3 in Brevard County. Orange County's rate was lower than each of these rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Polk County had the highest rate and Brevard County had the lowest. These rates divide deaths from 2020 through 2024 by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate 2024 population estimate of 1,520,988 is not Orange County's rate denominator.^{[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 follow crash location, not where people lived. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that location grouping in mind when reading these counts.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and can change when replaced by the Final File. Rate denominators sum annual Census Bureau population estimates for 2020 through 2024 from Vintage 2025, rather than using the separate July 1, 2024 estimate.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Brevard County, Florida (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Lake County, Florida (2020-2024)

On related publications

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