Truck accident statistics for Nye County, Nevada (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Nye County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 3 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 2 in 2022, 9 in 2023 and 2 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2023. The lowest count, 2, occurred in both 2022 and 2024. The 2024 count was 1 death lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 21.4% in 2020, 32.0% in 2021, 15.4% in 2022, 30.0% in 2023 and 16.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths for those years numbered 14, 25, 13, 30 and 12, respectively. Although 2023 had the highest truck accident death count, the highest annual share was 32.0% 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 Nye County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 25.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 18 deaths, or 75.0%, the majority of truck accident deaths in Nye County during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 0 deaths and 0.0%. This label identifies the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The grouping can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked 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 Nye County during 2020 through 2024 involved 19 large trucks. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 12 and represented 63.2% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 7. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each entry in the trucks table counts vehicles. These figures are distinct from the 16 fatal crashes and 24 deaths recorded for the period. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so a truck count is not 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. Head-on recorded 14 deaths (58.3%); sideswipe, 6 (25.0%); angle (side impact), 0 (0.0%); and rear-end, 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 4 deaths (16.7%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, encompassing events such as striking a 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 (12.5%); two-vehicle, 13 (54.2%); and three or more vehicles, 8 (33.3%). These shares classify deaths by the number of vehicles involved, distinct from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 0, representing 0.0% of the county total for 2020 through 2024. This classification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. No individual interstate route counts are supplied in the packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 12 deaths (50.0%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., also accounted for 12 (50.0%). Urban locations recorded 3 deaths (12.5%), while rural locations recorded 21 (87.5%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These location and time figures count deaths in truck accidents, rather than trucks or fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Nevada and the United States

Nye County's truck accident death rate was 8.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Nevada's rate was 1.6, and the United States rate was 1.6. Listed neighboring Clark County had a rate of 1.0. Nye County's rate was higher than each of these comparison rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 24 in Nye County, 247 in Nevada, 27,553 in the United States and 116 in Clark County. Rates use deaths at the crash location and the sum of annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The rate therefore expresses truck accident deaths relative to population, rather than relative to travel mileage.^{[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 a death within 30 days. It excludes nonfatal crashes and injuries. Counts follow crash location, not where the people killed lived. For a reader searching "truck accident lawyer," the grouping to remember is the county where the crash happened.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Clark County, Nevada (2020-2024)