Truck accident statistics for Boone County, Missouri (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Boone County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 3 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, then fell to 3 in 2022. The count rose to 5 in 2023 and remained at 5 in 2024. The highest count was 6 in 2021; the lowest was 3, recorded in both 2020 and 2022. 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 30.0% in 2020 and 30.0% in 2021. It fell to 13.0% in 2022, then rose to 19.2% in 2023 and 25.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 10, 20, 23, 26 and 20 in those respective years.^{[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 Boone County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 27.3%. People in other vehicles accounted for 13 deaths, or 59.1%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 13.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The FARS nonoccupant grouping is represented by that quoted label and includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, can fall within the other category. Whether someone was outside a vehicle is therefore not literally tested by this grouping.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records include 25 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 12 and represented 48.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this table counts vehicles, rather than fatal crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 25 trucks represent a different measure from the county's 20 fatal crashes and 22 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. Rear-end recorded 8 deaths (36.4%); angle (side impact), 4 (18.2%); sideswipe, 2 (9.1%); head-on, 1 (4.5%); and other, 1 (4.5%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 6 deaths (27.3%). This 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, 5 (22.7%); two-vehicle, 12 (54.5%); and three or more vehicles, 5 (22.7%). These shares describe vehicle involvement, rather than manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 11, or 50.0%. The listed route-coded count for I-70 was 11 deaths. Interstate identification uses ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-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 (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 15 deaths, or 68.2%; nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 7, or 31.8%. Urban and rural classifications each recorded 11 deaths and 50.0%. The work-zone count was 1 death. That work-zone figure counts deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Missouri and the United States

Boone County's truck accident death rate was 2.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Missouri's rate was 2.1, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 22 for Boone County, 657 for Missouri and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in this packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping here remains crash location, not the home county of the people 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 NHTSA's 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 dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts use crash location, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File figures may change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000, yielding average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 190,897 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]