Truck accident statistics for Canyon County, Idaho (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Canyon County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 7 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, then to 2 in 2022. The count remained at 2 in 2023 before rising to 6 in 2024. The highest count was 7 in 2020; 2022 and 2023 shared the lowest count of 2. The 2024 count was lower than the 2020 count by 1 death.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual shares of all traffic deaths were 29.2% in 2020, 20.7% in 2021, 12.5% in 2022, 6.7% in 2023 and 26.1% in 2024. All traffic deaths for those years were 24, 29, 16, 30 and 23, respectively. Although truck accident deaths were unchanged between 2022 and 2023, their share of all traffic deaths fell.^{[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 Canyon County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 13.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 19 deaths, or 82.6%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 4.3%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists, and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. The label therefore does not impose a literal outside-the-vehicle test.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle counts identify 22 large trucks involved in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) accounted for 8 trucks and 36.4% of the large trucks counted. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 14 trucks. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 22 trucks describe a different measure from the county's 21 fatal crashes and 23 deaths. The truck-tractor share likewise describes trucks, not 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 14 deaths, or 60.9%; head-on for 4, or 17.4%; rear-end for 1, or 4.3%; and sideswipe for 3, or 13.0%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 1 death, or 4.3%. 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]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 1, or 4.3%; two-vehicle: 17, or 73.9%; and three or more vehicles: 5, or 21.7%. Configuration counts vehicles involved rather than describing the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 2, or 8.7%, with 2 deaths listed for I-84. These figures use interstate route coding and a parseable interstate route number. The listed route counts cover the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 19 deaths, or 82.6%, and nighttime for 4, or 17.4%. Urban locations recorded 7 deaths, or 30.4%; rural locations recorded 16, or 69.6%. The work-zone count was 1 death. These location and time figures describe deaths in truck accidents, while the trucks table separately counts vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Idaho and the United States

Canyon County's truck accident death rate was 1.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was lower than Idaho's 2.5 and higher than the United States rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 23 for Canyon County, 242 for Idaho and 27,553 nationally. No rates for listed neighboring counties are supplied in this fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Each rate uses deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's separately displayed 2024 population estimate of 267,444 is not the denominator used to calculate its average annual rate.^{[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. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts are grouped by crash location, not the deceased person's residence.^[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 use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, rather than the separately shown July 1, 2024 estimate. They measure average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]