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

Truck accident deaths in Greene County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 11 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, rose to 8 in 2022, and fell to 5 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was 11 in 2020. The lowest count was 4, recorded in both 2021 and 2024. The 2024 count was 7 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths associated with truck accidents was 27.5% in 2020, 8.2% in 2021, 17.4% in 2022, 9.3% in 2023 and 10.5% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 40, 49, 46, 54 and 38 in those respective years. The truck accident death count fell between 2023 and 2024, while its share of all traffic deaths rose.^{[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 Greene County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 9.4%. People in other vehicles accounted for 24 deaths, or 75.0%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 5 deaths, or 15.6%.^{[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 when the truck accident happened is not literally what the grouping tests.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal crashes involved 30 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 13 and represented 43.3% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 17. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each entry in this table counts vehicles. These figures are distinct from the 29 fatal crashes and 32 truck accident deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count and the fatal crash count describe different measures.^{[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 (31.2%); head-on, 7 (21.9%); rear-end, 5 (15.6%); and sideswipe, 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 10 deaths (31.2%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events such as 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]}

The separate crash configuration categories recorded single-vehicle deaths of 6 (18.8%), two-vehicle deaths of 20 (62.5%), and deaths in crashes involving three or more vehicles of 6 (18.8%). These classify vehicle involvement separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 5, or 15.6%. The listed I-44 count was 5 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route counts represent that 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 14 deaths (43.8%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 18 deaths (56.2%). Urban locations recorded 20 deaths (62.5%), and rural locations recorded 12 (37.5%). The work-zone count was 1 death. These location and time figures count deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Missouri and the United States

Greene County's truck accident death rate was 2.1 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Missouri's rate was also 2.1, while the national rate was 1.6. The county rate matched the state rate and was higher than the national rate. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rate uses deaths divided by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. It does not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's 307,174 population estimate for 2024 is separate from that denominator. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping to keep in mind is crash location, rather than where the people killed lived.^{[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. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts follow the crash location, not the deceased person's residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can 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. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Greene County, Missouri (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)