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

Truck accident deaths in Richmond County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 0 in 2020 to 7 in 2021, fell to 2 in 2022, then rose to 4 in 2023 and 9 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2024, and the lowest was 0 in 2020. The 2024 count was 9 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The yearly share of traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents followed the same sequence: 0.0%, 15.6%, 5.9%, 7.8% and 20.9%. All traffic deaths numbered 30 in 2020, 45 in 2021, 34 in 2022, 51 in 2023 and 43 in 2024. While truck accident deaths reached their highest count in 2024, the highest all-traffic 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 Richmond County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 22.7%. People in other vehicles accounted for 15 deaths, or 68.2%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 2 deaths, or 9.1%, in truck accidents from 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Richmond County involved 19 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 11 and represented 57.9% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 8. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 18 fatal crashes and 22 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the vehicles 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 6 deaths, or 27.3%; head-on for 4, or 18.2%; rear-end for 6, or 27.3%; and sideswipe for 1, or 4.5%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 5 deaths, or 22.7%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a pedestrian, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident configuration counts were single-vehicle: 5 deaths, 22.7%; two-vehicle: 15 deaths, 68.2%; and three or more vehicles: 2 deaths, 9.1%. Configuration describes vehicle involvement, separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accidents accounted for 4 deaths, or 18.2%. The listed I-520 count was 4 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID. Listed routes represent the packet's route-coded subset, rather than a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 13 truck accident deaths, or 59.1%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 9 deaths, or 40.9%. Urban locations recorded 21 deaths, or 95.5%, and rural locations recorded 1 death, or 4.5%. The work-zone count was 0 deaths; that measure counts people killed, rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Georgia and the United States

Richmond County's truck accident death rate was 2.1 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Georgia's rate was also 2.1, while the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was the same as the state rate and higher than the national rate. The corresponding death counts were 22 for Richmond County, 1,136 for Georgia and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The listed neighboring county, Aiken County, South Carolina, recorded 24 deaths and a rate of 2.8. Richmond County's rate was lower. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should read these counts as grouped by crash location, rather than by 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. County counts use crash location, not the deceased person's residence. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File figures can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000 to give average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Aiken County, South Carolina (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Richmond County, Georgia (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)