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

Truck accident deaths in Jerome County by year

Annual truck accident deaths went from 1 in 2020 to 3 in 2021, then fell to 2 in 2022. The count rose to 11 in 2023 before falling to 5 in 2024. The highest count was 11 in 2023, and the lowest was 1 in 2020. The 2024 count was 4 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 33.3% in 2020, 23.1% in 2021, 33.3% in 2022, 61.1% in 2023 and 71.4% in 2024. Although the death count fell from 2023 to 2024, the share rose. All traffic deaths numbered 18 in 2023 and 7 in 2024.^{[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 Jerome County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 7 deaths, or 31.8%. People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 63.6%, the largest person category in these truck accident figures. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 4.5%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The FARS nonoccupant grouping is represented by that quoted label and includes 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

The fatal truck accidents involved 24 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 14 and represented 58.3% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 10. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 19 fatal crashes and 22 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the trucks involved, rather than a share of crashes or people who died.^{[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) recorded 8 deaths (36.4%), head-on 2 (9.1%), rear-end 4 (18.2%) and sideswipe 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths (36.4%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, with examples including a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle, fixed object or rollover. A vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 5 (22.7%); two-vehicle, 13 (59.1%); and three or more vehicles, 4 (18.2%). Configuration counts vehicles involved and is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 8, or 36.4%. The listed route, I-84, recorded 8 deaths. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable I-route number; 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 18 deaths (81.8%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 4 (18.2%). Rural locations recorded 22 deaths (100.0%), while urban locations recorded 0 (0.0%). Work-zone records accounted for 5 deaths. These location and time figures count people who died, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Idaho and the United States

Jerome County's truck accident death rate was 17.4 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with Idaho's 2.5 and the national rate of 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 22 for Jerome County, 242 for Idaho and 27,553 for the United States. No neighboring county rates are supplied in this data packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Rates use deaths from 2020 through 2024 divided by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 26,288 is not the denominator used for the county 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

NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System 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.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 figures use the Annual Report File and may change when NHTSA replaces it with the Final File. Counts are assigned to the county where the crash happened, not where the people who died lived. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that crash-location grouping in mind when reading these statistics.^[9][6][7][8]