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

Truck accident deaths in Madison County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 3 in 2020 to 4 in 2021 and 8 in 2022. The count then fell to 7 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was 8 in 2022, while the lowest was 3 in 2020. The 2024 count was 2 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths involving trucks followed the same sequence of increases and decreases: 9.4%, 14.3%, 21.6%, 17.9% and 12.8%. All traffic deaths numbered 32 in 2020, 28 in 2021, 37 in 2022, 39 in 2023 and 39 in 2024. These annual figures count deaths, rather than the number of fatal crashes.^{[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 Madison County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 11.1%, in Madison County truck accidents during 2020 through 2024. People in other vehicles accounted for 24 deaths, or 88.9%, the majority of deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 0 deaths and 0.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle figures identify 26 large trucks in fatal crashes in Madison County from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 16 and represented 61.5% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 10. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each of these figures counts vehicles. They are distinct from the 24 fatal crashes and 27 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count is not a count of separate crashes.^{[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 15 deaths (55.6%), head-on for 5 (18.5%), rear-end for 3 (11.1%) and sideswipe for 2 (7.4%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 2 deaths (7.4%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include striking a 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 deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 1 (3.7%); two-vehicle, 24 (88.9%); and three or more vehicles, 2 (7.4%). Configuration describes the vehicle count, a separate classification from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 11, or 40.7%, during 2020 through 2024. The listed route counts were I-55, 3 deaths; I-70, 3; I-270, 3; and I-255, 2. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number in the roadway identifier. The listed routes are a route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 20 deaths (74.1%), and nighttime accounted for 7 (25.9%). Urban locations recorded 17 deaths (63.0%), while rural locations recorded 10 (37.0%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 2; that figure counts deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Illinois and the United States

Madison County's truck accident death rate was 2.0 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. Among the listed neighbors, St. Louis County, Missouri, had a rate of 0.9; St. Clair County, Illinois, had 2.0; and City of St. Louis, Missouri, had 1.5.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The county's rate matched St. Clair County's and was higher than the rates for the other listed neighbors. These rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should read these figures as location-based death rates.^{[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 census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes is FARS. For inclusion, a motor vehicle must be traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public, and an occupant or nonoccupant must die within 30 days. The county in which the crash happened determines the counts, rather than the person's county of residence. Neither nonfatal crashes nor injuries are included.^[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 from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for St. Clair County, Illinois (2020-2024)