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

Truck accident deaths in Nassau County by year

Annual truck accident deaths were 3 in 2020, 9 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 0 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2021; the lowest was 0 in 2023. The 2024 count was 2 deaths higher than the 2020 count. Deaths rose from 2020 to 2021, fell through 2023 and rose in 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 3.8%, 10.8%, 9.9%, 0.0% and 7.7%. All traffic deaths numbered 78 in 2020, 83 in 2021, 81 in 2022, 66 in 2023 and 65 in 2024. The highest truck accident share occurred in 2021, while the lowest occurred in 2023.^{[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 Nassau County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 20.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 11 deaths, or 44.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 9 deaths, or 36.0%, in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records list 26 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 6 and represented 23.1% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 20. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this breakdown counts trucks, rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count describes a different measure from the county's 23 fatal crashes and 25 truck accident deaths. The truck-tractor share likewise uses large trucks as its denominator.^{[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 1 (4.0%), rear-end for 5 (20.0%) and sideswipe for 1 (4.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 12 deaths (48.0%). This 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. A vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were 10 (40.0%) in single-vehicle crashes, 12 (48.0%) in two-vehicle crashes and 3 (12.0%) in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts vehicles; manner identifies the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 9, or 36.0%. The listed route, I-495, recorded 9 deaths. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number in the FARS road identifier. The listed route counts represent the packet's route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 14 deaths (56.0%), while nighttime accounted for 11 (44.0%). The urban classification recorded 25 deaths (100.0%); the rural classification recorded 0 (0.0%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 0. These road, time and land-use figures count deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Nassau County's truck accident death rate was 0.4 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. New York's rate was 0.6, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than each of those rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Bronx County recorded a rate of 0.6, Suffolk County 0.5 and Queens County 0.3. Nassau County's rate was lower than the Bronx and Suffolk rates and higher than the Queens rate. These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the grouping in view: these counts identify crash locations, not the home counties of people who died.^{[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. 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. County counts use crash location, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The result is average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, without adjustment for miles driven or visitors. The separately displayed July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

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