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

Truck accident deaths in Tangipahoa Parish by year

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

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 12.5% in 2020, 19.2% in 2021, 15.0% in 2022, 21.6% in 2023 and 20.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 32, 26, 40, 37 and 30 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death count and share occurred in 2023; all traffic deaths were highest in 2022.^{[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 Tangipahoa Parish truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 17.2%. People in other vehicles accounted for 20 deaths, or 69.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 4 deaths, or 13.8%. These categories describe people who died in truck accidents, rather than counts of vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted row is the FARS nonoccupant grouping. It includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. That other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label does not require every person counted to have been physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Tangipahoa Parish involved 28 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 16 and represented 57.1% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles. It does not count fatal crashes or deaths, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 57.1% share describes truck-tractors among the large trucks involved; it is not a share of people killed in a truck accident.^{[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 recorded 9 deaths (31.0%); Angle (side impact), 8 (27.6%); Head-on, 2 (6.9%); and Sideswipe, 2 (6.9%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 8 deaths (27.6%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic. Examples include striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were Single-vehicle, 7 (24.1%); Two-vehicle, 18 (62.1%); and Three or more vehicles, 4 (13.8%). These shares group deaths by the number of vehicles involved, rather than by manner of collision. Two-vehicle crashes accounted for the largest share.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 16, or 55.2%. The listed route-coded counts were 9 deaths on I-12 and 7 on I-55. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable I-route number; the listed routes are a coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 17 deaths (58.6%), while nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 12 (41.4%). Urban locations recorded 14 deaths (48.3%), and rural locations recorded 15 (51.7%). The work-zone count was 1 death. Each of these figures describes deaths in truck accidents, rather than the number of trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Louisiana and the United States

Tangipahoa Parish's truck accident death rate was 4.2 average annual 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. Listed neighboring county St. Tammany Parish recorded a rate of 2.5, also lower than Tangipahoa Parish's rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 29 in Tangipahoa Parish, 561 in Louisiana, 27,553 nationally and 34 in St. Tammany Parish. Rates use annual Census population estimates and do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping to keep in mind is crash location, not the home address of anyone who died.^{[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. Counts use the county where the crash happened, not residence. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[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 summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. These average annual rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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