Truck accident statistics for Licking County, Ohio (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Licking County by year

Annual truck accident deaths rose from 1 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, then to 5 in 2022 and 9 in 2023. The count fell to 4 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2023, while the lowest was 1 in 2020. Comparing the endpoints, the 2024 count was 3 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 5.9% in 2020, 16.0% in 2021, 29.4% in 2022, 39.1% in 2023 and 23.5% in 2024. All traffic deaths for those years were 17, 25, 17, 23 and 17, respectively. The annual average for truck accident deaths during the period was 4.6.^{[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 Licking County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 21.7%. People in other vehicles accounted for 17 deaths, or 73.9%, the largest person category in the truck accident death totals. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 4.3%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Licking County involved 20 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 7, representing 35.0% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes, rather than crashes or deaths. A truck accident can involve multiple large trucks, so the 20 trucks should be read separately from the 18 fatal crashes and 23 deaths. The truck-tractor share uses the large-truck vehicle count 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 8 deaths, or 34.8%; head-on for 2, or 8.7%; rear-end for 7, or 30.4%; and sideswipe for 1, or 4.3%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 5 deaths, or 21.7%. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a parked vehicle. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 3, or 13.0%; two-vehicle: 11, or 47.8%; and three or more vehicles: 9, or 39.1%. Configuration describes vehicle numbers, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 8, or 34.8%. The listed I-70 count was 8 deaths. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable interstate route number; the listed route is a coded subset, not a complete road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 18 deaths, or 78.3%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 5 deaths, or 21.7%. Urban locations recorded 9 deaths, or 39.1%, while rural locations recorded 14, or 60.9%. Work-zone 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 Ohio and the United States

Licking County's truck accident death rate was 2.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Ohio's rate was 1.6, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 23 for Licking County, 923 for Ohio and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Delaware County had the higher rate at 2.2, compared with Franklin County at 0.8. Their death counts were 25 and 54, respectively. Licking County's rate was higher than each listed neighbor's. These population-based rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep the distinction between death counts and population-based rates in view.^{[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. Counts use the crash county, not the deceased person's home county. Data for 2020 through 2023 are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. They measure average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustment for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 184,340 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Delaware County, Ohio (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Franklin County, Ohio (2020-2024)