Truck accident statistics for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Calcasieu Parish by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 4 in 2020, 7 in 2021, 4 in 2022, 8 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was 8 in 2023. The lowest count was 4, recorded in both 2020 and 2022. Comparing the endpoints, the 2024 count was 1 death higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 12.5% in 2020, 12.5% in 2021, 13.3% in 2022, 19.0% in 2023 and 16.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 32, 56, 30, 42 and 30 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death count and highest share occurred in 2023; the highest all-traffic death count occurred in 2021.^{[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 Calcasieu Parish truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 14.3%. People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 78.6%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 7.1%. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted label denotes the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. That grouping can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Calcasieu Parish involved 26 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 18 and represented 69.2% of those large trucks. The Single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 8 vehicles. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 25 fatal crashes and 28 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the trucks table does not give a crash count for each vehicle category. The jackknife figure also counts trucks, rather than deaths or 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) recorded 5 deaths (17.9%); Head-on, 3 (10.7%); Rear-end, 8 (28.6%); Sideswipe, 3 (10.7%); and Not reported, 1 (3.6%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 (28.6%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, 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, 5 (17.9%); Two-vehicle, 16 (57.1%); and Three or more vehicles, 7 (25.0%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; 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 50.0%. The listed route-coded counts were 13 deaths for I-10 and 1 for I-20. These figures use the interstate route classification plus a parseable interstate number in the road identifier. The listed routes are the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) and nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) each recorded 14 deaths, or 50.0%. Urban locations recorded 18 deaths (64.3%), while rural locations recorded 10 (35.7%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 4. The work-zone figure counts people killed, rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Louisiana and the United States

Calcasieu Parish's truck accident death rate was 2.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Louisiana's rate was 2.4, and the national rate was 1.6. The parish rate was higher than both. Listed neighboring Orange County, Texas, recorded a rate of 4.7, higher than the parish rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The death counts accompanying these rates were 28 for Calcasieu Parish, 561 for Louisiana, 27,553 for the United States and 20 for Orange County. Rates use annual Census population estimates and do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the grouping in view: these counts identify where crashes happened, not where the people killed lived.^{[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. Counts follow crash location, not the deceased person's residence. The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File remains subject to revision.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separately displayed July 1, 2024 population estimate of 207,027 is not the denominator used for the truck accident death rate.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Orange County, Texas (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)