Truck accident statistics for DuPage County, Illinois (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in DuPage County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 7 in 2020 and 7 in 2021, making those the joint highest years. The count fell to 6 in 2022, remained at 6 in 2023 and fell to 5 in 2024, the lowest year. The 2024 count was 2 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 14.3% in 2020, 15.2% in 2021, 15.8% in 2022, 12.5% in 2023 and 8.9% in 2024. The highest share occurred in 2022. All traffic deaths numbered 49, 46, 38, 48 and 56 in those respective years. Thus, 2024 had the highest all-traffic death count but the lowest truck accident death count.^{[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 DuPage County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 9.7%. People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 71.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 6 deaths, or 19.4%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including 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 parked motor vehicles. These categories describe people who died in truck accidents, not counts of vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records include 32 large trucks for 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 22, representing 68.8% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 10. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each entry in this table counts vehicles. It does not count deaths or fatal crashes, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 32 large trucks therefore remain a separate measure from the county's 29 fatal crashes and 31 truck accident deaths.^{[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 13 deaths (41.9%); Angle (side impact), 6 (19.4%); Head-on, 2 (6.5%); Sideswipe, 1 (3.2%); and Other, 1 (3.2%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths (25.8%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events involving pedestrians, cyclists, parked vehicles, fixed objects or rollovers. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were 5 (16.1%) in single-vehicle crashes, 23 (74.2%) in two-vehicle crashes and 3 (9.7%) in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts involved vehicles; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 14, or 45.2%. Listed route counts were I-88 with 6 deaths, I-55 with 4, I-290 with 2 and I-355 with 2. These use ROUTE=1 with a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID, a route-coded subset rather than a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime recorded 20 deaths (64.5%), compared with nighttime's 11 (35.5%). The daytime interval is 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.; nighttime is 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. Urban records accounted for 31 deaths (100.0%), and rural records for 0 (0.0%). Work-zone records counted 1 death, a measure of deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Illinois and the United States

DuPage County's truck accident death rate was 0.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Illinois recorded 1.4 and the United States recorded 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. These rates accompany death counts of 31 for DuPage County, 913 for Illinois and 27,553 nationally.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Cook County had a rate of 0.7, Will County 1.4 and Kane County 0.8. DuPage County matched Cook County and had a lower rate than Will County and Kane County. The calculation uses deaths divided by summed annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^{[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. For a reader searching "truck accident lawyer," the geographic grouping is crash location, not the deceased person's residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and may change upon finalization. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 for 2020 through 2024. The separately displayed July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. Rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Cook County, Illinois (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Kane County, Illinois (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Will County, Illinois (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for DuPage County, Illinois (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)