Truck accident statistics for Bronx County, New York (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Bronx County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 7 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, then rose to 16 in 2022. The count fell to 10 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest count was 16 in 2022, while the lowest was 4 in 2021. The 2024 count was 1 death lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual shares of all traffic deaths followed the same sequence: 12.7%, 8.3%, 29.1%, 22.7% and 11.5%. All traffic deaths numbered 55 in 2020, 48 in 2021, 55 in 2022, 44 in 2023 and 52 in 2024. Each truck accident share uses the corresponding year's all-traffic death count.^{[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 Bronx County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 0 deaths, or 0.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 27 deaths, or 62.8%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 16 deaths, or 37.2%, in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. It is therefore not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle. These categories describe people killed in the crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Bronx County involved 43 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 21 and represented 48.8% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 22. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 41 fatal crashes and 43 deaths recorded for the period. A truck crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share describes the vehicles involved, rather than the share of crashes or the share of 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. Deaths were 7 for Angle (side impact), 0 for Head-on, 15 for Rear-end, 2 for Sideswipe, 17 for "Not a collision with another moving vehicle", 1 for Other and 1 for Not reported. The quoted row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include pedestrian, cyclist, parked-vehicle or fixed-object impacts and rollovers. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident configuration figures count 14 single-vehicle deaths (32.6%), 18 two-vehicle deaths (41.9%) and 11 deaths in crashes involving three or more vehicles (25.6%). These group deaths by vehicle count, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 19, or 44.2%. The listed route-coded counts were I-95: 11 deaths; I-87: 6; I-295: 1; and I-97: 1. These figures use ROUTE=1 with a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. The listed routes are a route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 16 deaths (37.2%), and nighttime accounted for 27 (62.8%). The daytime window is 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.; nighttime is 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. Urban records accounted for 43 deaths (100.0%), while rural records accounted for 0 (0.0%). Work-zone records counted 3 deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The Bronx County truck accident death rate was 0.6 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. New York's rate was also 0.6, while the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than the national rate and the same as the state rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Queens County had a rate of 0.3, New York County 0.4, Bergen County, New Jersey, 0.5, and Nassau County 0.4. Bronx County's rate was higher than each listed neighbor's rate. These 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, and the deaths are grouped by 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 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 group deaths by crash county, not home county.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000 to express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Bergen County, New Jersey (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for New York County, New York (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Nassau County, New York (2020-2024)

On related publications

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