Truck accident statistics for City of St. Louis, Missouri (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in City of St. Louis by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 5 in 2020, 3 in 2021, 5 in 2022, 3 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest count was 6 in 2024. The lowest count was 3, recorded in both 2021 and 2023. The 2024 count was 1 death higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual truck accident shares were 6.2% in 2020, 4.2% in 2021, 6.3% in 2022, 5.8% in 2023 and 12.5% in 2024. All traffic deaths for those years were 81, 71, 79, 52 and 48, respectively. While the truck accident death count rose from 2023 to 2024, the all-traffic death count fell from 52 to 48.^{[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 City of St. Louis truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 1 death, or 4.5%. People in other vehicles accounted for 16 deaths, or 72.7%, the largest person category for truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 5 deaths, or 22.7%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents 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. The grouping does not literally test whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The trucks table records 22 large trucks involved in fatal crashes from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 14, representing 63.6% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 8. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from truck accident deaths and fatal crash counts. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. Although this packet also records 22 fatal crashes and 22 deaths, the trucks table measures the vehicles involved, rather than the number of 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 8 deaths (36.4%); head-on, 1 (4.5%); rear-end, 5 (22.7%); and sideswipe, 3 (13.6%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 5 deaths (22.7%). It 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]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 3 (13.6%); two-vehicle, 13 (59.1%); and three or more vehicles, 6 (27.3%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 11, or 50.0%. The listed route-coded counts were 6 on I-70, 4 on I-44 and 1 on I-64. These figures require ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate number in TWAY_ID; 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 14 deaths (63.6%); nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 8 (36.4%). Urban locations recorded 22 deaths (100.0%), and rural locations recorded 0 (0.0%). Work-zone deaths numbered 1. The 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

The City of St. Louis truck accident death rate was 1.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Missouri's rate was 2.1, and the national rate was 1.6. The city's rate was lower than both.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, St. Louis County, Missouri, had a rate of 0.9; Madison County, Illinois, had 2.0; and St. Clair County, Illinois, had 2.0. The city's rate was higher than St. Louis County's and lower than the rates in Madison and St. Clair counties. These rates use deaths at crash locations and annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors and do not measure deaths among residents specifically.^{[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 dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts are grouped by crash location, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000 to give average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Madison County, Illinois (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for St. Clair County, Illinois (2020-2024)
• Large truck (crash data definition)
• Truck accident statistics for St. Louis County, Missouri (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Missouri truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-44 truck accidents in Missouri (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-55 truck accidents in Missouri (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-70 truck accidents in Missouri (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Car accident statistics for City of St. Louis, Missouri (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)