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

Truck accident deaths in Torrance County by year

Annual truck accident deaths rose from 1 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, fell to 4 in 2022, and rose to 11 in 2023. The count then fell to 6 in 2024. The highest count was 11 in 2023, and the lowest was 1 in 2020. The 2024 count was 5 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 16.7% in 2020, 66.7% in 2021, 44.4% in 2022, 68.8% in 2023 and 42.9% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 6, 9, 9, 16 and 14 in those respective years. Across the reporting period, truck accident deaths averaged 5.6 per year.^{[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 Torrance County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 7 deaths, or 25.0% of truck accident deaths. People in other vehicles accounted for 14 deaths, or 50.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 7 deaths, or 25.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The FARS nonoccupant grouping is what that quoted label refers to; it 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 is not literally what the grouping tests.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accidents involved 33 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 28, accounting for 84.8% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 5. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles. These are distinct from the 26 fatal crashes and 28 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count is not a count of separate truck accidents 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) recorded 8 deaths (28.6%); head-on, 1 (3.6%); rear-end, 9 (32.1%); and sideswipe, 1 (3.6%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 9 deaths (32.1%). That row 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. Vehicles in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 8 (28.6%); two-vehicle, 15 (53.6%); and three or more vehicles, 5 (17.9%). Configuration groups deaths by the number of 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 21, or 75.0%. The listed I-40 count was 21 deaths. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable interstate route number; the listed route is 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 15 deaths (53.6%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 13 (46.4%). Rural locations recorded 28 deaths (100.0%), while urban locations recorded 0 (0.0%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 6. These location and time figures count deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Torrance County's truck accident death rate was 36.2 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was higher than New Mexico's 3.9 and the United States rate of 1.6. The listed neighboring county, Bernalillo County, had a rate of 1.7. The associated death counts were 28 for Torrance County, 413 for New Mexico, 27,553 nationally and 57 for Bernalillo County.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these figures remain grouped by crash location, not by 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 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. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts use crash location, not the deceased person's residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000, yielding average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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