Truck accident statistics for Lake County, Indiana (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Lake County by year

Annual truck accident deaths fell from 12 in 2020 to 9 in 2021, rose to 11 in 2022, fell to 6 in 2023 and rose to 9 in 2024. The highest count was 12 in 2020, and the lowest was 6 in 2023. The 2024 count was 3 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents followed a separate series: 20.7% in 2020, 12.5% in 2021, 18.0% in 2022, 10.9% in 2023 and 25.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 58, 72, 61, 55 and 36 in those respective years. Although 2020 had the highest truck accident death count, 2024 had the highest share of all traffic deaths.^{[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 Lake County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 10.6%. People in other vehicles accounted for 37 deaths, or 78.7%, the largest person category in the truck accident figures. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 5 deaths, or 10.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It is therefore a person-type grouping rather than a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records list 48 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 36 and represented 75.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles. They are distinct from the 44 fatal crashes and 47 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck total is not a count of separate crash events 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. Rear-end crashes recorded 16 deaths (34.0%); angle (side impact), 14 (29.8%); head-on, 3 (6.4%); and sideswipe, 3 (6.4%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 11 deaths (23.4%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as striking a parked vehicle or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident configuration figures describe vehicle counts: single-vehicle crashes recorded 8 deaths (17.0%), two-vehicle crashes recorded 29 (61.7%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles recorded 10 (21.3%). These categories are separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 24, or 51.1%. The listed route-coded counts were 19 deaths for I-80, 2 for I-65, 2 for I-90 and 1 for I-94. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable I-route number in the road identifier. The listed routes represent the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 27 deaths (57.4%), and nighttime accounted for 20 (42.6%). Urban locations recorded 41 deaths (87.2%); rural locations recorded 6 (12.8%). Work-zone records identified 7 deaths. The work-zone figure counts people killed, rather than trucks or crash events.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Indiana and the United States

Lake County's truck accident death rate was 1.9 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Indiana's rate was 2.3, and the national rate was 1.6. Lake County's rate was lower than the state rate and higher than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Cook County, Illinois, had a rate of 0.7; Will County, Illinois, had 1.4; and Porter County, Indiana, had 3.7. Lake County's rate was higher than Cook County's and Will County's and lower than Porter County's. These rates use deaths by crash location and annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors, and they do not measure deaths specifically among county residents.^{[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 on trafficways customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Counts use crash location, not where people lived. When reading these figures alongside the phrase "truck accident lawyer," keep that location grouping in mind.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File remains subject to revision. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census population estimates for 2020 through 2024, using Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Lake County, Indiana (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)