Truck accident statistics for Camden County, New Jersey (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Camden County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 5 in 2020, 3 in 2021, 10 in 2022, 3 in 2023 and 4 in 2024. The highest count was 10 in 2022. The lowest count was 3, recorded in both 2021 and 2023. Comparing the endpoints, the 2024 count was 1 death lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 13.2% in 2020, 4.3% in 2021, 18.5% in 2022, 7.3% in 2023 and 10.8% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 38, 69, 54, 41 and 37 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death count and share occurred in 2022; all traffic deaths were highest 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 Camden County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 8.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 15 deaths, or 60.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 8 deaths, or 32.0%, of the county's truck accident deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. It is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle: the other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records for 2020 through 2024 include 27 large trucks. Of those vehicles, 12 were truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units. Truck-tractors represented 44.4% of the large trucks recorded. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 15 vehicles, and 1 large truck was recorded as jackknifed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts. They do not count fatal crashes or people killed, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The county recorded 24 fatal truck crashes and 25 deaths during the same period; those measures remain distinct from the truck counts.^{[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 6 deaths (24.0%), head-on for 2 (8.0%), rear-end for 4 (16.0%) and sideswipe for 2 (8.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 11 (44.0%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 9 (36.0%); two-vehicle, 12 (48.0%); and three or more vehicles, 4 (16.0%). Configuration counts vehicles involved and is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 5, or 20.0%. The listed route-coded counts were I-676 with 2 deaths, I-95 with 1, I-295 with 1 and I-76 with 1. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable I-route number; the listed routes 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 16 deaths (64.0%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 9 (36.0%). Urban locations recorded 24 deaths (96.0%), and rural locations recorded 1 (4.0%). Work-zone records counted 2 deaths, a measure of people killed rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with New Jersey and the United States

Camden County's truck accident death rate was 0.9 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. New Jersey's rate was 0.8, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than the state rate and lower than the national rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Burlington County, New Jersey, had a rate of 1.5; Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, had 0.4; and Gloucester County, New Jersey, had 1.8. Gloucester County had the highest rate among the listed neighboring counties, and Philadelphia County had the lowest. These rates use deaths at crash locations and annual population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping here remains crash location.^{[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. County counts follow crash location, not where those killed lived. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and may change with its replacement by the Final File. Rates divide deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 533,595 is not the rate denominator. Rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Burlington County, New Jersey (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Gloucester County, New Jersey (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Camden County, New Jersey (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)