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

Truck accident deaths in Lucas County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 7 in 2020, 8 in 2021, 8 in 2022, 2 in 2023 and 5 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2021 and 2022, while 2023 had the lowest count. The 2024 count was 2 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Across the reporting period, the average was 6.0 deaths per year.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths recorded in truck accidents was 13.7% in 2020, 14.8% in 2021, 20.0% in 2022, 3.8% in 2023 and 14.3% in 2024. Although 2021 and 2022 had equal truck accident death counts, their all-traffic death counts were 54 and 40, respectively. The highest truck accident share occurred 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 Lucas County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 25 deaths, or 83.3%, the largest person category in Lucas County's truck accident figures. People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 6.7%. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 10.0%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label identifies 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 a person-type classification rather than a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records include 28 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 20 and represented 71.4% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 8. The number of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each entry in this table counts vehicles. These figures are distinct from the county's 25 fatal crashes and 30 deaths involving large trucks. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count and the crash count describe different measures of the fatal crash records.^{[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

By manner of collision, rear-end crashes accounted for 10 deaths (33.3%), angle (side impact) for 6 (20.0%), head-on for 5 (16.7%) and sideswipe for 3 (10.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 6 deaths (20.0%). This classification describes the first harmful event. The quoted row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include a vehicle stopped in traffic. Examples include a rollover or striking a parked vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 3 (10.0%); two-vehicle, 21 (70.0%); and three or more vehicles, 6 (20.0%). Configuration counts vehicles involved rather than describing the manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 13, or 43.3%. The listed route-coded counts were I-80 with 4 deaths, I-475 with 4, I-75 with 3 and I-280 with 2. These figures require an interstate route classification and a readable I-route number; 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 (70.0%), while nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 9 (30.0%). Urban locations recorded 26 deaths (86.7%); rural locations recorded 4 (13.3%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These classifications count deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Ohio and the United States

Lucas County's truck accident death rate was 1.4 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 lower than both. The corresponding death counts were 30 in Lucas County, 923 in Ohio and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's July 1, 2024 population estimate of 424,255 is shown separately and is not the denominator used for this 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 a death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts group deaths by crash county, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

FARS Final Files supply the figures for 2020 through 2023. The 2024 Annual Report File is subject to change when the Final File replaces it. Rates are calculated by dividing deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiplying by 100,000, producing average annual deaths per 100,000 residents. The denominator does not use the separate July 1, 2024 estimate; rates make no adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Large truck (crash data definition)

On related publications

• Ohio truck accident statistics (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-75 truck accidents in Ohio (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• I-80 truck accidents in Ohio (2020-2024) (truckaccidentlawyers.wiki)
• Car accident statistics for Lucas County, Ohio (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)