Truck accident statistics for Klamath County, Oregon (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Klamath County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 3 in 2020 to 2 in 2021, then rose to 5 in 2022, 7 in 2023 and 15 in 2024. The highest count was 15 in 2024; the lowest was 2 in 2021. The 2024 count was 12 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 16.7% in 2020, 7.7% in 2021, 18.5% in 2022, 29.2% in 2023 and 57.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 18, 26, 27, 24 and 26 in those respective years. Unlike the truck accident death count, the all-traffic death count was highest 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 Klamath County truck accidents

People in other vehicles accounted for 32 deaths, or 100.0% of truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. People in the large truck accounted for 0 deaths and 0.0%. These categories describe the people killed, rather than the vehicles involved in the fatal crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 0 deaths and 0.0%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so its label is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle figures list 20 large trucks involved in fatal crashes from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 13 and represented 65.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 7.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 3. Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles, rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks. The county's separate count of 20 fatal crashes therefore measures crashes, even though it matches the large-truck vehicle 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. Head-on recorded 16 deaths, or 50.0%; Angle (side impact) recorded 12, or 37.5%. Rear-end and Sideswipe each recorded 0 deaths and 0.0%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 4 deaths, or 12.5%. That label means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic; examples include a rollover or striking a parked vehicle or fixed object.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were Single-vehicle: 0 and 0.0%; Two-vehicle: 28 and 87.5%; and Three or more vehicles: 4 and 12.5%. 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 0, or 0.0%, using the packet's route coding and requirement for a parseable interstate route number. These figures describe the route-coded subset, rather than a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., recorded 16 deaths and 50.0%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., also recorded 16 deaths and 50.0%. Rural locations accounted for 32 deaths and 100.0%, while urban locations accounted for 0 deaths and 0.0%. Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 0; that measure counts deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Oregon and the United States

Klamath County's truck accident death rate was 9.1 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Oregon's rate was 2.0, and the national rate was 1.6. The county rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 32 for Klamath County, 424 for Oregon and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, rates were 1.7 in Lane County, 2.3 in Deschutes County and 4.1 in Douglas County. Klamath County's rate was higher than each of these rates. The rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^{[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. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts group deaths by crash location, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates for 2020 through 2024, using Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 70,371 is not the rate denominator. Rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Deschutes County, Oregon (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Douglas County, Oregon (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Lane County, Oregon (2020-2024)