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

Truck accident deaths in Florence County by year

Deaths in truck accidents declined each year, from 9 in 2020 to 6 in 2021, 5 in 2022, 4 in 2023 and 3 in 2024. The highest count was in 2020, and the lowest was in 2024. The 2024 count was 6 deaths lower than the 2020 count. Across the reporting period, the average was 5.4 deaths per year.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All traffic deaths followed a different sequence: 32 in 2020, 41 in 2021, 39 in 2022, 30 in 2023 and 28 in 2024. The truck accident share was 28.1%, 14.6%, 12.8%, 13.3% and 10.7%, respectively. That share rose from 2022 to 2023 even as the truck accident death count fell.^{[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 Florence County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 7.4%. People in other vehicles accounted for 24 deaths, or 88.9%, the largest share of truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 1 death, or 3.7%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

The trucks involved

Fatal truck crashes in Florence County involved 27 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, identified as semi or tractor-trailer units in the table, numbered 20 and represented 74.1% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 7. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 24 fatal crashes and 27 truck accident deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck counts describe vehicles involved rather than the number of crashes or 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. Rear-end recorded 12 deaths (44.4%); Angle (side impact), 6 (22.2%); Head-on, 6 (22.2%); and Sideswipe, 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 3 deaths (11.1%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as a rollover or striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object. A vehicle stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate crash configuration figures classify truck accident deaths by vehicles involved: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 2 deaths (7.4%), two-vehicle crashes for 18 (66.7%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 7 (25.9%). These shares describe deaths, not numbers of crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 8, representing 29.6% of the county count. The listed I-95 count was 8 deaths. These figures require ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID; the listed route counts 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 16 deaths (59.3%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 11 (40.7%). Urban locations recorded 7 deaths (25.9%), while rural locations recorded 20 (74.1%). Work-zone deaths numbered 0; that measure counts people killed, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Florence County's truck accident death rate was 3.9 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with 2.5 for South Carolina and 1.6 for the United States. The county rate was higher than both comparison rates. The corresponding death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 27 in Florence County, 664 statewide and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the fact sheet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates for the reporting years, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The population basis expresses the rate per resident, while the deaths remain assigned to the county where each crash occurred.^{[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 a death within 30 days. It excludes nonfatal crashes and injuries. Counts follow crash location rather than home address. Readers searching for a truck accident lawyer should keep that geographic grouping in mind when reading these statistics.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File. Rates use summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, not the separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 138,317. Dividing deaths by that annual population sum and multiplying by 100,000 yields 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 Florence County, South Carolina (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)