Truck accident statistics for Aiken County, South Carolina (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Aiken County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 7 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 1 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 7 in 2024. The highest count was shared by 2020 and 2024, while 2022 had the lowest count. Deaths fell from 2020 through 2022, then rose in 2023 and 2024. The count in 2024 was the same as in 2020, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 21.9% in 2020, 13.9% in 2021, 3.4% in 2022, 10.5% in 2023 and 24.1% in 2024. Although 2020 and 2024 each recorded 7 truck accident deaths, their all-traffic totals were 32 and 29 deaths, respectively.^{[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 Aiken County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 9 deaths, or 37.5%. People in other vehicles accounted for 12 deaths, or 50.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 12.5%. These categories describe the people who died in qualifying truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

The vehicle records identify 22 large trucks in fatal crashes in Aiken County during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 10 and represented 45.5% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 12. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 22 fatal crashes and 24 truck accident deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the trucks table counts vehicles involved rather than individual crash events or people who died.^{[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 (20.8%), head-on 4 (16.7%), rear-end 2 (8.3%) and sideswipe 1 (4.2%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 12 deaths (50.0%). That row means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport; examples include striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The separate crash configuration grouping assigns 12 truck accident deaths (50.0%) to single-vehicle crashes, 9 (37.5%) to two-vehicle crashes and 3 (12.5%) to crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded crashes accounted for 6 truck accident deaths, or 25.0%. The listed I-20 count was 6 deaths. These figures require an interstate route code and a parseable interstate number; the listed route is a route-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 13 deaths (54.2%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 11 (45.8%). The urban classification recorded 11 deaths (45.8%), and rural recorded 13 (54.2%). Work-zone records identified 1 death. Each of these figures counts deaths, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with South Carolina and the United States

Aiken County's truck accident death rate was 2.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. South Carolina's rate was 2.5, and the national rate was 1.6. Aiken County's rate was higher than both. The corresponding death counts were 24 for the county, 664 for the state and 27,553 nationally.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, had a rate of 7.9; Lexington County, South Carolina, had 2.0; and Richmond County, Georgia, had 2.1. Aiken County's rate was lower than Orangeburg's and higher than Lexington's and Richmond's. These rates use deaths divided by summed 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 death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts group deaths by crash county, not residence. Data for 2020 through 2023 are Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and may change.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates for those years, using Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 estimate of 178,363 is not the denominator. The result is average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, without adjustments for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Richmond County, Georgia (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Lexington County, South Carolina (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Orangeburg County, South Carolina (2020-2024)