Truck accident statistics for Johnston County, North Carolina (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Johnston County by year

Truck accident deaths remained at 4 in 2020, 2021 and 2022, rose to 12 in 2023, and fell to 4 in 2024. The highest count was in 2023. The lowest count, 4, occurred in 2020 and was also recorded in 2021, 2022 and 2024. The count was the same at the beginning and end of the period.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All traffic deaths numbered 39 in 2020, 39 in 2021, 38 in 2022, 32 in 2023 and 40 in 2024. The truck accident share was 10.3%, 10.3%, 10.5%, 37.5% and 10.0%, respectively. While 2023 had the highest truck accident death count and share, 2024 had the highest count of all traffic deaths.^{[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 Johnston County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 10.7%. People in other vehicles accounted for 21 deaths, or 75.0%, the largest person category for truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 4 deaths, or 14.3%.^{[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 vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. The label therefore should not be read as a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Johnston County involved 27 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 15, representing 55.6% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. The records also identified 2 large trucks as jackknifed.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles. These are distinct from the 25 fatal crashes and 28 deaths recorded during the period. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the vehicle count is not interchangeable with either the fatal crash count or the death count.^{[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 11 truck accident deaths; head-on, 2; rear-end, 4; sideswipe, 1; and not reported, 1. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 9 deaths. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, crash configuration describes vehicle involvement: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 6 deaths (21.4%), two-vehicle crashes for 14 (50.0%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 8 (28.6%). These shares classify truck accident deaths by vehicle configuration, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 12, or 42.9%. The listed route-coded counts were 10 deaths on I-95 and 2 on I-40. These figures require ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed routes are a coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 21 deaths (75.0%), while nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 7 (25.0%). Urban locations recorded 6 deaths (21.4%); rural locations recorded 22 (78.6%). The work-zone figure was 1 truck accident death, a count of deaths rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with North Carolina and the United States

Johnston County's truck accident death rate was 2.4 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. North Carolina's rate was 1.7, and the United States rate was 1.6. The listed neighboring county, Wake County, had a rate of 0.6. Johnston County's rate was higher than each of these comparison rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 28 for Johnston County, 933 for North Carolina, 27,553 for the United States and 33 for Wake 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. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these figures remain 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 a 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. County counts follow crash location, not where the people killed lived.^[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 use deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 249,522 is not the rate denominator. The rates 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 Wake County, North Carolina (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Johnston County, North Carolina (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)