Truck accident statistics for St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in St. Tammany Parish by year

Annual truck accident deaths fell from 7 in 2020 to 3 in 2021, then rose to 10 in 2022. The count fell to 9 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was 10 in 2022, and the lowest was 3 in 2021. The 2024 count was 2 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents followed the same sequence of increases and decreases: 17.1% in 2020, 10.3% in 2021, 29.4% in 2022, 22.5% in 2023 and 16.1% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 41, 29, 34, 40 and 31 in those respective years. These annual figures count deaths rather than 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 St. Tammany Parish truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for the largest share of truck accident deaths: 27 deaths, or 79.4%. People in the large truck accounted for 1 death, or 2.9%. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 6 deaths, or 17.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. It therefore does not establish that every person counted in that row was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The vehicle count for fatal truck accidents in St. Tammany Parish was 34 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) accounted for 23 trucks, or 67.6% of the large trucks recorded. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 11 trucks. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures describe vehicles involved in fatal crashes. They are not counts of crashes or deaths, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor percentage uses the large-truck vehicle count as its denominator.^{[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

By manner of collision, truck accident deaths were rear-end, 17 (50.0%); head-on, 7 (20.6%); angle (side impact), 2 (5.9%); and sideswipe, 1 (2.9%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 7 deaths (20.6%). Manner of collision describes the first harmful event. The quoted row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events 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, crash configuration assigns 4 deaths (11.8%) to single-vehicle crashes, 21 (61.8%) to two-vehicle crashes and 9 (26.5%) to crashes involving three or more vehicles. These shares classify deaths by vehicle count, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 21, or 61.8%. The listed route-coded counts were 15 deaths on I-12 and 6 on I-10. These figures require interstate route coding and a parseable I-route identifier; the listed routes represent the supplied 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 14 deaths (41.2%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 20 deaths (58.8%). Urban locations recorded 18 deaths (52.9%), and rural locations recorded 16 (47.1%). Work-zone records identified 2 deaths. Each figure in these location and time groupings counts deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Louisiana and the United States

The average annual truck accident death rate in St. Tammany Parish was 2.5 deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Louisiana's rate was 2.4, and the United States rate was 1.6. The parish rate was higher than both. Neighboring Tangipahoa Parish recorded a rate of 4.2, higher than St. Tammany Parish's 2.5.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 34 for St. Tammany Parish, 561 for Louisiana, 27,553 for the United States and 29 for Tangipahoa Parish. Rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents using annual population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The deaths used in these rates are assigned by crash location, not the home addresses of the people killed.^{[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. For a reader searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts remain grouped by crash location, not residence.^[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. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separately displayed July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

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