Truck accident statistics for Wilson County, Tennessee (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Wilson County by year

Truck accident deaths numbered 2 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2022, 2 in 2023 and 9 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2024. The lowest count was 2, recorded in 2020 and also in 2022 and 2023. The 2024 count was 7 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The annual share of traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 11.8% in 2020, 19.2% in 2021, 10.5% in 2022, 8.0% in 2023 and 36.0% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 17, 26, 19, 25 and 25 in those respective years. Although the truck accident death count was unchanged from 2022 to 2023, its share of all traffic deaths 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 Wilson County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 6 deaths, or 30.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 13 deaths, or 65.0%, the largest person category for truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 1 death, or 5.0%. This label identifies the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The grouping can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles; the label should not be read as a literal test of being outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle records include 20 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 10 and accounted for 50.0% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 10. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles, rather than crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the 20 large trucks are distinct from the county's 18 fatal crashes and 20 truck accident 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 1 death (5.0%), head-on 6 (30.0%), rear-end 7 (35.0%) and sideswipe 0 (0.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 6 deaths (30.0%). This 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 in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 5 (25.0%); two-vehicle, 13 (65.0%); and three or more vehicles, 2 (10.0%). These shares describe vehicle counts in the crash, not its manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 9, or 45.0%, during 2020 through 2024. The listed route-coded count for I-40 was 9 deaths. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number. The listed route represents the packet's 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 12 deaths (60.0%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 8 (40.0%). Urban locations recorded 12 deaths (60.0%), while rural locations recorded 8 (40.0%). The work-zone figure was 1 death, a count of deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Tennessee and the United States

Wilson County's truck accident death rate was 2.5 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Tennessee's rate was 2.4, and the United States rate was 1.6. Among the listed neighboring counties, Davidson County recorded 1.8 and Rutherford County recorded 1.4. Wilson County's rate was higher than each of these comparison rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 20 in Wilson County, 837 in Tennessee, 27,553 nationally, 64 in Davidson County and 26 in Rutherford County. 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 assigned by crash location rather than residence.^{[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. Inclusion requires a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and an occupant or nonoccupant dying within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. For readers searching "truck accident lawyer," these counts group deaths by crash county, not residence.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates use deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. The separately shown July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Davidson County, Tennessee (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Rutherford County, Tennessee (2020-2024)