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

Truck accident deaths in Suffolk County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 7 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, then rose to 11 in 2022. The count fell to 10 in 2023 and 7 in 2024. The highest count was 11 in 2022, while the lowest was 6 in 2021. The 2020 and 2024 counts were the same, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 6.2% in 2020, 3.9% in 2021, 6.7% in 2022, 6.3% in 2023 and 5.8% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 113, 153, 164, 158 and 120 in those respective years. Both the truck accident death count and its share of traffic deaths were highest in 2022.^{[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 Suffolk County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 28 deaths, or 68.3%, the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 12.2%. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 8 deaths, or 19.5%.^{[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 parked motor vehicles. These categories describe people who died in truck accidents, rather than counts of vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Suffolk County involved 43 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 8 and represented 18.6% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 35. 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. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle figures are distinct from the county's 40 fatal crashes and 41 deaths. The truck-tractor share likewise describes the large trucks involved, rather than the share of crashes or deaths.^{[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 12 deaths (29.3%); Angle (side impact), 11 (26.8%); Head-on, 5 (12.2%); and Sideswipe, 1 (2.4%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 12 deaths (29.3%). 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 stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate truck accident configuration figures classify deaths by vehicle count: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 12 deaths (29.3%), two-vehicle crashes for 23 (56.1%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 6 (14.6%). These are death shares, not crash shares.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 5, or 12.2%. The listed route, I-495, recorded 5 deaths. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable interstate route number; the listed route counts 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 19 deaths (46.3%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 22 (53.7%). Urban locations recorded 40 deaths (97.6%), while rural locations recorded 1 (2.4%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. The work-zone figure counts people who died, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Suffolk County's truck accident death rate was 0.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. New York's rate was 0.6, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. Nassau County, the listed neighboring county, had a rate of 0.4, lower than Suffolk County's 0.5.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 41 for Suffolk County, 610 for New York, 27,553 for the United States and 25 for Nassau County. 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 separately reported 2024 population estimate of 1,543,330 is not the denominator used for Suffolk County's rate.^{[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 on trafficways customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these counts are grouped by crash location, not the home county of anyone who died.^[9][6][7][8]

Figures for 2020 through 2023 use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File figures can change when NHTSA replaces that file with the Final File. Average annual rates use deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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

On related publications

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