Truck accident statistics for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Oklahoma County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 5 in 2020 to 16 in 2021, fell to 10 in 2022, rose to 15 in 2023 and fell to 7 in 2024. The highest count was 16 in 2021; the lowest was 5 in 2020. The 2024 count was 2 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths followed the same sequence of increases and decreases: 6.8% in 2020, 15.0% in 2021, 10.8% in 2022, 13.6% in 2023 and 6.9% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 74, 107, 93, 110 and 102 in those respective years. The highest all-traffic death count occurred in 2023, while the highest truck accident death count 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 Oklahoma County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 9 deaths, or 17.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 32 deaths, or 60.4%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 12 deaths, or 22.6%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The grouping can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles; it is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle. These categories describe people who died in truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Oklahoma County involved 56 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 28 and represented 50.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 28. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the county's 53 fatal crashes and 53 truck accident deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share therefore describes the large trucks involved in fatal crashes, rather than a share of crashes 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. Deaths were: angle (side impact), 11 (20.8%); head-on, 7 (13.2%); rear-end, 12 (22.6%); sideswipe, 4 (7.5%); and other, 1 (1.9%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 18 (34.0%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events involving pedestrians, cyclists, parked vehicles, fixed objects or rollovers. Vehicles in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, crash configuration groups truck accident deaths by the number of vehicles involved. Single-vehicle crashes accounted for 12 deaths (22.6%), two-vehicle crashes for 26 (49.1%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 15 (28.3%). These configuration categories are separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 32, or 60.4%. The listed route counts were I-40, 13 deaths; I-44, 10; I-35, 6; and I-240, 1. Interstate identification requires the interstate route code and a parseable I-route number. The listed routes are a route-coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime accounted for 29 deaths (54.7%), nighttime for 23 (43.4%), and time not reported for 1 (1.9%). Daytime spans 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.; nighttime spans 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m. Urban locations accounted for 48 deaths (90.6%) and rural locations for 5 (9.4%). Work-zone deaths numbered 4; that figure counts deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Oklahoma and the United States

Oklahoma County's truck accident death rate was 1.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. The Oklahoma rate was 3.0, and the United States rate was 1.6. Canadian County, the listed neighboring county, had a rate of 2.6. Oklahoma County's rate was lower than each of these comparison rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 53 in Oklahoma County, 603 in Oklahoma, 27,553 nationally and 22 in Canadian County. Rates use deaths recorded by crash location and annual population estimates; they do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep the grouping in view: these counts describe where crashes happened, not where the people killed lived.^{[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

NHTSA's census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes is FARS. To qualify for inclusion, a crash must involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death occurring within 30 days. The crash location determines where a death is counted, rather than the deceased person's residence. Neither nonfatal crashes nor injuries are included.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the denominator. 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 Canadian County, Oklahoma (2020-2024)

On related publications

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