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

Truck accident deaths in Walton County by year

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

The annual share of traffic deaths involving large trucks was 3.4% in 2020, 17.9% in 2021, 20.8% in 2022, 23.8% in 2023 and 20.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 29, 39, 24, 21 and 25 in those respective years. Although the truck accident death count stayed unchanged from 2022 through 2024, its share of all traffic deaths changed.^{[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 Walton County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 13.0%, while People in other vehicles accounted for 18 deaths, or 78.3%. People in other vehicles were the largest category of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 8.7%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The supplied label therefore does not mean that every person counted was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The trucks table records 22 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in Walton County during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 10 and represented 45.5% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or deaths. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle total is a separate measure from the 21 fatal crashes and 23 deaths recorded for the period. The truck-tractor share likewise describes trucks rather than 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. Rear-end recorded 8 deaths (34.8%); head-on, 6 (26.1%); angle (side impact), 4 (17.4%); sideswipe, 1 (4.3%); and Other, 1 (4.3%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 3 (13.0%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident configuration counts were single-vehicle, 3 deaths (13.0%); two-vehicle, 17 (73.9%); and three or more vehicles, 3 (13.0%). These shares classify deaths by the number of vehicles involved, rather than manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 6, or 26.1%. The listed I-10 count was 6 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route counts represent a 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 18 deaths (78.3%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 5 (21.7%). Rural classifications recorded 21 deaths (91.3%), and urban classifications recorded 2 (8.7%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These road, time and land-use figures describe deaths, not counts of trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Florida and the United States

Walton County's truck accident death rate was 5.5 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. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 23 for Walton County, 1,780 for Florida and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these figures remain grouped by crash location rather than the home addresses of 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

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 death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts follow crash location, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

Data for 2020 through 2023 use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and may be revised. Rates use 2020 through 2024 deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate of 90,096 is not the rate denominator. The rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]