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

Truck accident deaths in Multnomah County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 6 in 2020, 6 in 2021, 9 in 2022, 6 in 2023 and 6 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2022. The lowest count was 6, recorded in 2020 and also in 2021, 2023 and 2024. The 2020 and 2024 counts were the same, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 7.2% in 2020, 7.5% in 2021, 10.2% in 2022, 6.7% in 2023 and 7.7% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 83, 80, 88, 90 and 78 in those respective years. Truck accident deaths averaged 6.6 per year during the period.^{[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 Multnomah County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 0 deaths, or 0.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 21 deaths, or 63.6%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 12 deaths, or 36.4%. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted row uses the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles. The label therefore does not require every person counted to have been physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle count was 32 large trucks involved in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 18 and represented 56.2% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 14. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this table counts trucks rather than crashes or deaths. A fatal crash can involve multiple large trucks. The county's 30 fatal truck crashes and 33 deaths are separate measures from the 32 large trucks involved.^{[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 7 deaths (21.2%), head-on for 5 (15.2%), rear-end for 5 (15.2%) and sideswipe for 3 (9.1%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 13 deaths (39.4%). That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can be stopped in traffic. Examples include striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident configuration counts were single-vehicle: 9 deaths (27.3%); two-vehicle: 18 (54.5%); and three or more vehicles: 6 (18.2%). These shares group deaths by the number of vehicles involved, rather than the manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 9, or 27.3%. The listed route-coded counts were 7 deaths on I-84, 1 on I-5 and 1 on I-205. These figures require the interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number; the listed routes are a coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., accounted for 18 deaths (54.5%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 15 (45.5%). Urban locations recorded 30 deaths (90.9%), and rural locations recorded 3 (9.1%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 0. The work-zone figure counts deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Oregon and the United States

Multnomah County's truck accident death rate was 0.8 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 lower than both. The corresponding death counts were 33 for Multnomah County, 424 for Oregon and 27,553 for the United States. No neighboring county rates are supplied in this packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

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. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, these counts are grouped by crash location, not by the home address of the people killed.^{[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 NHTSA's 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 death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County assignments identify where crashes happened, not where those killed lived.^[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. Rate denominators sum annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 for 2020 through 2024. The separately shown July 1, 2024 estimate of 794,472 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

On related publications

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