Truck accident statistics for Lowndes County, Georgia (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Lowndes County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 3 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 3 in 2022, 5 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2021 and 2023, while 2020 and 2022 shared the lowest count. The 2024 count was 1 death higher than the 2020 count. Across the reporting period, the average was 4.0 deaths per year.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths involving large trucks was 25.0% in 2020, 17.9% in 2021, 15.8% in 2022, 27.8% in 2023 and 22.2% in 2024. That share was highest in 2023 and lowest in 2022. All traffic deaths numbered 12, 28, 19, 18 and 18 in those respective years.^{[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 Lowndes County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 20.0% of truck accident deaths. People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 70.0%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 10.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The truck accident records identify 21 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 17 and represented 81.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 4. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the county's 18 fatal crashes and 20 deaths involving large trucks. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the vehicles in the trucks table, rather than a share of crashes or 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

By manner of collision, truck accident deaths were rear-end, 8 (40.0%); angle (side impact), 4 (20.0%); head-on, 3 (15.0%); sideswipe, 1 (5.0%); and Other, 1 (5.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 3 (15.0%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a parked vehicle. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Separately, crash configuration records single-vehicle deaths at 1 (5.0%), two-vehicle deaths at 12 (60.0%), and deaths in crashes involving three or more vehicles at 7 (35.0%). These shares describe deaths, not crash counts.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 12, or 60.0% of the county total. The listed route-coded count for I-75 was 12 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route is a 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 14 deaths (70.0%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 6 (30.0%). Urban locations recorded 9 deaths (45.0%), and rural locations recorded 11 (55.0%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0; that figure counts people killed, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Lowndes County's truck accident death rate was 3.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Georgia's rate was 2.1, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 20 for Lowndes County, 1,136 for Georgia and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping to keep in mind is crash location: the county rate uses deaths in crashes within Lowndes County, regardless of where the people killed lived.^{[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 NHTSA's 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 assignment follows crash location, not the home address of the person killed.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Average annual rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 122,385 is not the rate denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]