Truck accident statistics for Kent County, Michigan (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Kent County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 4 in 2020, 7 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2021 and 2022; the lowest count was shared by 2020, 2023 and 2024. The 2020 to 2024 change was 0 deaths. Counts rose between 2020 and 2021, stayed unchanged in 2022, fell in 2023 and stayed unchanged in 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 7.3% in 2020, 10.6% in 2021, 12.7% in 2022, 6.2% in 2023 and 6.3% in 2024. That share reached its highest value in 2022 and its lowest value in 2023.^{[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 Kent County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 7.7%, while People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 84.6%. People in other vehicles were the largest category of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 7.7%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The label therefore does not mean that every person in this category was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records identify 25 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 12 and represented 48.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes, rather than the crashes themselves or the people who died. A truck crash can involve multiple large trucks. The vehicle total of 25 should therefore retain its vehicle label when read alongside the county's 24 fatal crashes and 26 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) recorded 7 deaths (26.9%); head-on, 4 (15.4%); rear-end, 4 (15.4%); and sideswipe, 6 (23.1%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 5 deaths (19.2%). That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident configuration figures count deaths by vehicles involved: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 4 deaths (15.4%), two-vehicle crashes for 15 (57.7%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 7 (26.9%). These describe configuration, not manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 3, or 11.5%. The listed route-coded count for I-96 was 3 deaths. Interstate identification requires the interstate route code and a parseable interstate 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 20 deaths (76.9%); nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 6 (23.1%). Urban locations recorded 18 deaths (69.2%), rural locations 7 (26.9%), and locations with land use not reported 1 (3.8%). Work-zone records identified 2 deaths. These location and time figures count deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Michigan and the United States

Kent County's truck accident death rate was 0.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Michigan's rate was 1.0, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both the state and national rates. The corresponding death counts were 26 for Kent County, 511 for Michigan and 27,553 for the United States. No neighboring county rates are supplied in this fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rate uses deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separately reported 2024 population of 670,412 is not the denominator used for this rate.^{[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 a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Whether reading for statistics or searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the grouping in view: counts follow crash location, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates use the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, rather than the separate July 1, 2024 estimate, to express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Kent County, Michigan (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)