Truck accident statistics for Worcester County, Massachusetts (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Worcester County by year

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

The share of all traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents changed from 21.2% in 2020 to 8.5% in 2021, 9.0% in 2022, 11.1% in 2023 and 2.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 33, 59, 78, 45 and 49 in those respective years. The highest all-traffic death count was in 2022; the lowest was in 2020.^{[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 Worcester County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 16.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 17 deaths, or 68.0%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 4 deaths, or 16.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Worcester County involved 24 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 9 and represented 37.5% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 15. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes. They are distinct from the county's 22 fatal truck crashes and 25 truck accident deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count is not a count of separate 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. Deaths were 4 for angle (side impact), 6 for head-on, 4 for rear-end, 1 for sideswipe and 1 for not reported. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 9 deaths. That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, with examples including a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle, fixed object or rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The separate crash configuration grouping assigns 6 deaths, or 24.0%, to single-vehicle crashes; 11 deaths, or 44.0%, to two-vehicle crashes; and 8 deaths, or 32.0%, to crashes involving three or more vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 10, or 40.0%. The listed route counts were 6 deaths on I-90, 2 on I-290, 1 on I-495 and 1 on I-190. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable interstate number in the road identifier. They describe the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 13 deaths, or 52.0%, and nighttime for 12 deaths, or 48.0%. Urban locations accounted for 24 deaths, or 96.0%, while rural locations accounted for 1 death, or 4.0%. The work-zone figure was 1 death; it counts a death rather than a truck or crash.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Massachusetts and the United States

Worcester County's truck accident death rate was 0.6 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Massachusetts had a rate of 0.5, and the United States had a rate of 1.6. The county rate was higher than the state rate and lower than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the listed neighboring county, had a rate of 0.4, compared with Worcester County's 0.6. These rates use deaths at the crash location and do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. When reading these figures with a truck accident lawyer in mind, keep the population-based rates distinct from the death counts.^{[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. County assignment follows crash location, not where people lived. The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, subject to revision when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000 for average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 883,722 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Middlesex County, Massachusetts (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Worcester County, Massachusetts (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)