Truck accident statistics for Cibola County, New Mexico (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Cibola County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 7 in 2020, 9 in 2021, 4 in 2022, 9 in 2023 and 3 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2021 and 2023, while 2024 had the lowest count. The 2024 count was 4 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Annual counts rose, fell, rose and then fell across the period.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 46.7% in 2020, 37.5% in 2021, 25.0% in 2022, 60.0% in 2023 and 50.0% in 2024. That share was highest in 2023 and lowest in 2022. All traffic deaths numbered 15, 24, 16, 15 and 6 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 Cibola County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 11 deaths, or 34.4% of truck accident deaths. People in other vehicles accounted for 19 deaths, or 59.4%, the largest share of the person categories. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 2 deaths, or 6.2%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label refers to the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which encompasses pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The grouping does not literally test 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 included 43 large trucks. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 37 and represented 86.0% of those trucks. The Single-unit and other large trucks category recorded 6 vehicles. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the county's 25 fatal crashes and 32 deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the trucks table does not assign a separate crash or death to each vehicle. The jackknife figure likewise counts trucks rather than 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. Rear-end recorded 15 deaths (46.9%), head-on 7 (21.9%), angle (side impact) 4 (12.5%) and sideswipe 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 6 deaths (18.8%). This 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 in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 4 (12.5%); two-vehicle, 12 (37.5%); and three or more vehicles, 16 (50.0%). Configuration describes vehicle involvement separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 28, representing 87.5% of the county count. The listed I-40 route-coded count was 28 deaths. Interstate identification requires ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route counts are a subset rather than a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime recorded 22 deaths (68.8%), and nighttime recorded 10 (31.2%). Daytime runs from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.; nighttime runs from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. Rural classifications accounted for 29 deaths (90.6%), and urban classifications accounted for 3 (9.4%). Work-zone records counted 2 deaths, a measure of people killed rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Cibola County's truck accident death rate was 23.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. New Mexico's rate was 3.9, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than each of those rates. These figures use deaths at the crash location and do not identify deaths among county residents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, McKinley County had a rate of 11.4 and Bernalillo County had a rate of 1.7. Cibola County's rate was higher than both. The rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors; the separate 2024 population estimate is not the denominator.^{[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 death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts are grouped by crash location, not where the people killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, rather than the separate July 1, 2024 estimate. They express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for McKinley County, New Mexico (2020-2024)
• Large truck (crash data definition)

On related publications

• New Mexico truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-40 truck accidents in New Mexico (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)