Truck accident statistics for Sedgwick County, Kansas (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Sedgwick County by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 8 in 2020, 7 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 5 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2020 and 2022, while 2023 had the lowest count. The 2024 count was 2 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Deaths fell from 2020 to 2021, rose in 2022, fell in 2023 and rose in 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 12.3%, 10.4%, 11.3%, 9.3% and 9.8%, respectively. All traffic deaths numbered 65 in 2020, 67 in 2021, 71 in 2022, 54 in 2023 and 61 in 2024. These annual totals provide the context for each year's truck accident death share.^{[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 Sedgwick County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 5.9%. People in other vehicles accounted for 31 deaths, or 91.2%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 2.9%.^{[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 motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It therefore does not describe a literal outside-the-vehicle test. These categories classify people killed, rather than the vehicles involved.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident records include 29 large trucks involved in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 14, representing 48.3% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 15. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this table counts vehicles. It does not count deaths or fatal crashes, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 29 large trucks are therefore a different measure from the county's 26 fatal crashes and 34 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. Angle (side impact) accounted for 21 deaths, or 61.8%; head-on for 6, or 17.6%; rear-end for 5, or 14.7%; and sideswipe for 2, or 5.9%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 0 deaths, or 0.0%. That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a fixed object. 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: 0, or 0.0%; two-vehicle: 26, or 76.5%; and three or more vehicles: 8, or 23.5%. Configuration counts involved vehicles rather than describing the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 12, representing 35.3%. The listed route-coded counts were 4 deaths on I-35, 4 on I-135 and 4 on I-235. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable I-route number; the listed routes are a subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 29 deaths, or 85.3%, and nighttime for 5, or 14.7%. Urban locations recorded 22 deaths, or 64.7%, while rural locations recorded 12, or 35.3%. Work-zone deaths numbered 3. These location and time figures describe deaths in the qualifying crashes, not numbers of trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Kansas and the United States

Sedgwick County's truck accident death rate was 1.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That was lower than the Kansas rate of 2.6 and the United States rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 34 for the county, 386 for Kansas and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separately reported 2024 population of 534,386 is not the rate denominator. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these counts remain grouped by crash location.^{[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. 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. County assignment follows where the crash happened, not where the people killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rate calculations use annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, summing the estimates for 2020 through 2024 rather than using the separate July 1, 2024 estimate. Dividing deaths by that sum and multiplying by 100,000 gives average annual deaths per 100,000 residents.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Sedgwick County, Kansas (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)