Truck accident statistics for Harrison County, Mississippi (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Harrison County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 4 in 2020, 3 in 2021, 6 in 2022, 5 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was 6 in 2022; the lowest was 3 in 2021. After rising from 2021 to 2022, the count fell in 2023 and again in 2024. The 2020 and 2024 counts were the same, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 10.5% in 2020, 7.7% in 2021, 20.0% in 2022, 17.2% in 2023 and 16.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 38, 39, 30, 29 and 24 in those respective years. The highest truck accident share occurred in 2022, while the lowest occurred in 2021.^{[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 Harrison County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 7 deaths, or 31.8%. People in other vehicles accounted for 13 deaths, or 59.1%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 2 deaths, or 9.1%. These categories describe the people who died in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted row is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Its other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Harrison County involved 23 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 12 and represented 52.2% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 11. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles. They are distinct from the 21 fatal crashes and 22 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so a truck count does not represent a count of separate crashes or people killed.^{[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) accounted for 10 deaths (45.5%), head-on for 0 (0.0%), rear-end for 3 (13.6%) and sideswipe for 1 (4.5%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 8 (36.4%). That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 7 (31.8%); two-vehicle: 14 (63.6%); and three or more vehicles: 1 (4.5%). Configuration counts vehicles involved, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 12, representing 54.5% of the county total. The listed I-10 route-coded count was 12 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route figures 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 15 deaths (68.2%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 7 (31.8%). Urban locations recorded 16 deaths (72.7%), and rural locations recorded 6 (27.3%). The work-zone count was 1 death, a count of people killed rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Mississippi and the United States

Harrison County's truck accident death rate was 2.1 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Mississippi's rate was 3.3, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than the state rate and higher than the national rate. The corresponding death counts were 22 in Harrison County, 483 in Mississippi and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in this packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Whether reading for statistical research or searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the crash-location grouping in mind when interpreting this resident-based 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. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Counts follow the county where the crash happened, not the person's home. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File figures can change when replaced by the Final File. Rate denominators sum annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 for 2020 through 2024. The separately reported July 1, 2024 population estimate of 214,594 is not the denominator used for the truck accident death rate.^[9][6][7][8]