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

Truck accident deaths in Montgomery County by year

The annual truck accident death count was 1 in 2020 and remained 1 in 2021. It rose to 6 in 2022, then to 7 in 2023 and 9 in 2024. The highest count was in 2024; 2020 and 2021 shared the lowest count. The 2024 count was 8 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Truck accident deaths represented 2.9% of all traffic deaths in 2020, 2.6% in 2021, 11.3% in 2022, 13.5% in 2023 and 18.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths were 35, 39, 53, 52 and 50 in those respective years. The highest all-traffic death count occurred in 2022, while the highest truck accident death share occurred in 2024.^{[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 other vehicles accounted for 16 deaths, or 66.7% of truck accident deaths in Montgomery County from 2020 through 2024. This was the largest person category. People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 16.7%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" also recorded 4 deaths, or 16.7%. That label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. It is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle: the other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle count for 2020 through 2024 was 22 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in Montgomery County. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 9 and represented 40.9% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 1. Each entry in this table counts trucks, not deaths or fatal crashes. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 22 vehicles are a different measure from the county's 20 fatal crashes and 24 deaths.^{[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 2 deaths (8.3%); head-on, 5 (20.8%); rear-end, 5 (20.8%); sideswipe, 2 (8.3%); and Other, 1 (4.2%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 9 deaths (37.5%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, covering events such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 6 (25.0%); two-vehicle, 10 (41.7%); and three or more vehicles, 8 (33.3%). Configuration counts vehicles involved rather than describing the first harmful event.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 7, or 29.2% of the county total. The listed route, I-476, recorded 7 deaths. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable I-route number; the listed routes are a route-coded subset, not a complete road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 16 deaths (66.7%), while nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 8 (33.3%). Urban locations recorded 18 deaths (75.0%), and rural locations recorded 6 (25.0%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0. These location and time figures describe deaths in fatal crashes, not counts of trucks.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Pennsylvania and the United States

Montgomery 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 national rate was 1.6. The county rate was lower than both.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Berks County and Lehigh County each had a rate of 1.4, Chester County had 0.8, and Philadelphia County had 0.4. Montgomery County's rate was lower than the rates for Berks, Lehigh and Chester counties and higher than Philadelphia County's rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates use deaths at crash locations and annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. When reading for a truck accident lawyer search, keep the grouping in view: deaths are assigned by crash location, not home address.^{[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 on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts 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. Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate is not the 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 Berks County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Bucks County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Chester County, Pennsylvania (2020-2024)

On related publications

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