Truck accident statistics for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Allegheny County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 12 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, rose to 11 in 2022, then fell to 5 in 2023. The count remained at 5 in 2024. Within this period, 2020 had the highest count and 2021 had the lowest. The 2024 count was 7 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 20.0% in 2020, 5.9% in 2021, 13.1% in 2022, 6.5% in 2023 and 6.8% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 60, 68, 84, 77 and 74 in those respective years. Although truck accident deaths were unchanged between 2023 and 2024, their share of all traffic deaths rose.^{[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 Allegheny County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 16.2%. People in other vehicles accounted for 21 deaths, or 56.8%, the largest person category. The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 10 deaths, or 27.0%. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents, rather than counts of vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. That grouping can include occupants of parked motor vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents involved 37 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 10 and represented 27.0% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 27. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 36 fatal crashes and 37 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share describes the trucks involved in fatal crashes; it is not a share of crashes or a share of 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) recorded 5 deaths (13.5%); head-on, 7 (18.9%); rear-end, 5 (13.5%); sideswipe, 1 (2.7%); and Other, 1 (2.7%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 18 deaths (48.6%). It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed-object impact, or a rollover. 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, 13 (35.1%); two-vehicle, 16 (43.2%); and three or more vehicles, 8 (21.6%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from the manner-of-collision classification.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 9, or 24.3%. The listed route-coded counts were I-376 with 4 deaths, I-79 with 3, I-76 with 1 and I-279 with 1. These figures require interstate route coding 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 23 deaths (62.2%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 14 (37.8%). Urban locations recorded 35 deaths (94.6%); rural locations, 1 (2.7%); and locations with land use not reported, 1 (2.7%). Work-zone records accounted for 4 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Pennsylvania and the United States

Allegheny County's truck accident death rate was 0.6 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Pennsylvania's rate was 1.3, and the United States rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both. Westmoreland County, the listed neighboring county, recorded a rate of 1.4 and 24 deaths, compared with Allegheny County's 37 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and express the result per 100,000 residents per year. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping remains by crash location: the death counts do not identify 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

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. County counts use crash location, not the home address of the person killed. The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. They measure average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for miles driven or visitors. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)

On related publications

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