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

Truck accident deaths in Sumter County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 5 in 2020 to 8 in 2021, fell to 4 in 2022, rose to 6 in 2023 and fell to 2 in 2024. The highest count was 8 in 2021; the lowest was 2 in 2024. The 2024 count was 3 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of all traffic deaths followed the same sequence of increases and decreases: 20.8%, 27.6%, 10.5%, 27.3% and 9.5%. All traffic deaths numbered 24 in 2020, 29 in 2021, 38 in 2022, 22 in 2023 and 21 in 2024. The highest year for all traffic deaths was 2022, while truck accident deaths reached their highest count in 2021.^{[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 Sumter County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 7 deaths, or 28.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 16 deaths, or 64.0%, the majority of truck accident deaths in Sumter County during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" records 2 deaths, or 8.0%. This label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck crashes in Sumter County involved 28 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 19, representing 67.9% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 9. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 24 fatal crashes and 25 truck accident deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the large trucks involved, rather than the share of crashes or the share of 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) accounted for 5 deaths (20.0%), head-on for 6 (24.0%), rear-end for 4 (16.0%), sideswipe for 1 (4.0%) and Other for 1 (4.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths (32.0%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as striking a parked vehicle or a 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, 4 (16.0%); two-vehicle, 15 (60.0%); and three or more vehicles, 6 (24.0%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 7, or 28.0%, during 2020 through 2024. The listed route-coded count for I-75 was 7 deaths. Interstate identification requires the interstate route classification and a readable I-route number; the listed route represents the packet's coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime truck accident deaths numbered 16 (64.0%), compared with 9 (36.0%) at nighttime. Daytime covers 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.; nighttime covers 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. Urban deaths numbered 4 (16.0%), and rural deaths numbered 21 (84.0%). The work-zone figure was 1 death, a count of people killed rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Florida and the United States

Sumter County's truck accident death rate was 3.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Florida's rate was 1.6, and the national rate was 1.6. Among the listed neighboring counties, the rates were 2.9 for Polk County, 2.8 for Lake County, 2.7 for Marion County and 1.4 for Pasco County. Sumter County's rate was higher than each of these rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rate divides deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiplies by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these figures group deaths by crash location, not by the home county of the people killed.^{[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

NHTSA's FARS is a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Counts follow the county where the crash happened, not where the person lived. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates use deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. They measure average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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