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

Truck accident deaths in LaSalle County by year

Annual truck accident deaths fell from 6 in 2020 to 2 in 2021 and remained at 2 in 2022. The count rose to 7 in 2023, the highest year, then fell to 3 in 2024. The lowest count was 2 in 2021 and 2022. The 2024 count was 3 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 26.1% in 2020, 14.3% in 2021, 14.3% in 2022, 28.0% in 2023 and 10.3% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 23, 14, 14, 25 and 29 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death count and share occurred in 2023; the highest all-traffic death count occurred 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 LaSalle County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 25.0%, while People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 70.0%. People in other vehicles were the largest category of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 5.0%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label does not provide a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in LaSalle County involved 21 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 10 and represented 47.6% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 11. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes. They are distinct from the county's 18 fatal crashes and 20 deaths during the same period. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count is not a count of separate 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

Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. Angle (side impact) recorded 6 deaths, or 30.0%; Head-on, 3, or 15.0%; Rear-end, 4, or 20.0%; and Sideswipe, 2, or 10.0%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 5 deaths, or 25.0%. That row 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: 5, or 25.0%; Two-vehicle: 8, or 40.0%; and Three or more vehicles: 7, or 35.0%. Configuration counts vehicles involved rather than describing the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 6, or 30.0%. The listed route counts were I-80 with 4 deaths and I-39 with 2. These use interstate route coding plus a parseable interstate number, representing 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 15 deaths, or 75.0%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 5, or 25.0%. Urban locations recorded 8 deaths, or 40.0%, and rural locations recorded 12, or 60.0%. Work-zone deaths numbered 3; that figure counts people killed, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Illinois and the United States

LaSalle County's truck accident death rate was 3.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was higher than Illinois at 1.4 and the United States at 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 20 for the county, 913 for Illinois and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates for the period and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's separately displayed 2024 population estimate of 107,875 is not the denominator used for this 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. It includes crashes involving a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public when an occupant or nonoccupant dies within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Counts follow crash location, not the deceased person's residence. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should read these as counts grouped by crash location.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census population estimates from Vintage 2025, not the separately shown July 1, 2024 estimate. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]