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

Truck accident deaths in Horry County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 5 in 2020 to 4 in 2021, then rose to 9 in 2022. The count fell to 6 in 2023 before rising to 8 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2022, and the lowest was 4 in 2021. The 2024 count was 3 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The corresponding shares of all traffic deaths were 7.9%, 5.0%, 11.2%, 9.1% and 13.8%, respectively. All traffic deaths numbered 63 in 2020, 80 in 2021, 80 in 2022, 66 in 2023 and 58 in 2024. Although the truck accident death count was highest in 2022, its share of all traffic deaths was highest 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 Horry County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 6.2%. People in other vehicles accounted for 25 deaths, or 78.1%, the largest person category for truck accident deaths from 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row labeled "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 5 deaths, or 15.6%. This is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. The label therefore does not mean that every person counted was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident records include 30 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 8, accounting for 26.7% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 22. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count and crash count describe different measures. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, keep that vehicle-count distinction in mind when reading the table.^{[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 14 deaths (43.8%), head-on for 7 (21.9%), rear-end for 4 (12.5%) and sideswipe for 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 7 deaths (21.9%). That row 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]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 7 (21.9%); two-vehicle, 23 (71.9%); and three or more vehicles, 2 (6.2%). Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate truck accident deaths numbered 0, or 0.0%, using the interstate route code and a parseable I-route number. No individual interstate route counts are listed in the packet. These route-coded figures do not describe the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime recorded 20 deaths (62.5%), while nighttime recorded 12 (37.5%). Urban locations accounted for 17 deaths (53.1%), and rural locations accounted for 15 (46.9%). The work-zone count was 1 death. Each of these figures counts deaths in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024, rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

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

Horry County's truck accident death rate was 1.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That was lower than South Carolina's rate of 2.5 and higher than the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 32 for Horry County, 664 for South Carolina and 27,553 for the United States.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The listed neighboring county, Robeson County, North Carolina, recorded 35 deaths and a rate of 6.0. Horry County's rate was lower. These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors, and the deaths are grouped by crash location rather than the home addresses 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 a census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. It excludes nonfatal crashes and injuries. County counts use crash location, not where those killed lived. The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the revisable Annual Report File.^[9][6][7][8]

Truck accident death rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. This yields average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjusting 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 Robeson County, North Carolina (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Horry County, South Carolina (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)