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

Truck accident deaths in Montgomery County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 4 in 2020 to 9 in 2021, then reached 12 in 2022. The count fell to 5 in 2023 before rising to 9 in 2024. The highest count was in 2022, and the lowest was in 2020. The 2024 count was 5 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 5.6% in 2020, 12.2% in 2021, 17.6% in 2022, 7.8% in 2023 and 13.8% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 71, 74, 68, 64 and 65 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death share occurred in 2022, while the highest count of all traffic deaths occurred in 2021.^{[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 Montgomery County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 10 deaths, or 25.6%. People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 56.4%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 7 deaths, or 17.9%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including 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 truck accident deaths are grouped by person category within the fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck crashes involved 36 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 18 and represented 50.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 18. 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. These figures are distinct from the 32 fatal crashes and 39 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so a vehicle count should not be read as a count of truck accidents or people killed.^{[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) and rear-end each recorded 11 deaths, or 28.2%; head-on recorded 0, or 0.0%; sideswipe recorded 3, or 7.7%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 14 deaths, or 35.9%. 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 in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle: 10, or 25.6%; two-vehicle: 20, or 51.3%; and crashes involving at least three vehicles: 9, or 23.1%. Configuration counts vehicles involved, separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 22, or 56.4%. The listed route-coded counts were I-75: 18 deaths; I-70: 3; and I-675: 1. Interstate identification uses ROUTE=1 with a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID. These listed routes are the packet's route-coded subset, not a complete road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., recorded 21 deaths, or 53.8%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., recorded 18, or 46.2%. Urban locations accounted for 37 deaths, or 94.9%, and rural locations for 2, or 5.1%. Work-zone deaths numbered 10; that figure counts deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Ohio and the United States

Montgomery County's truck accident death rate was 1.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Ohio's rate was 1.6, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. The corresponding death counts were 39 for Montgomery County, 923 for Ohio and 27,553 for the United States. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates for the period and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's July 1, 2024 population estimate of 536,930 is shown separately; it is not the denominator used for the truck accident death 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. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Counts use crash location, not the deceased person's home. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that location grouping in mind when reading these counts.^[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. This gives average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, without adjustment for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Montgomery County, Ohio (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)