Truck accident statistics for Hennepin County, Minnesota (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Hennepin County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 3 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 4 in 2022, 6 in 2023 and 3 in 2024. The highest count was 6 in 2023. The lowest count was 3, recorded in both 2020 and 2024. The count rose, fell, rose and fell across successive years, leaving the 2020 to 2024 change at 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All traffic deaths numbered 46 in 2020, 74 in 2021, 61 in 2022, 55 in 2023 and 55 in 2024. Truck accident shares were 6.5%, 6.8%, 6.6%, 10.9% and 5.5%, respectively. Although the truck accident death counts matched in 2020 and 2024, their shares of all traffic deaths differed.^{[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 Hennepin County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 14.3%. People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 66.7%, the largest person category in the truck accident records. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 4 deaths, or 19.0%.^{[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 is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident records contain 20 large trucks involved in fatal crashes from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units in the table, numbered 11 and represented 55.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 9. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 19 fatal crashes and 21 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the large trucks in fatal crashes, rather than a share of crashes or 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), head-on, rear-end and sideswipe each accounted for 3 deaths and 14.3%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 9 deaths and 42.9%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 5 and 23.8%; two-vehicle: 13 and 61.9%; and three or more vehicles: 3 and 14.3%. Configuration describes vehicle involvement separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 7, or 33.3%. The listed route-coded counts were I-94: 3 deaths; I-35: 3 deaths; and I-494: 1 death. These figures require interstate route coding and a parseable I-route number in the roadway identifier. The listed routes are a coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 17 deaths and 81.0%; nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 4 and 19.0%. Urban locations recorded 19 deaths and 90.5%; rural locations recorded 1 and 4.8%. Land use was not reported for 1 death, or 4.8%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Minnesota and the United States

Hennepin County's truck accident rate was 0.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Minnesota's rate was 1.3, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. The corresponding death counts were 21 for Hennepin County, 365 for Minnesota and 27,553 for the United States. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's July 1, 2024 population estimate of 1,277,084 is shown separately; it is not the denominator used to calculate the truck accident 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 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. Counts follow crash location, not where those killed lived. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that location grouping in mind when reading these counts.^[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 2020 through 2024 deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Hennepin County, Minnesota (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)