Truck accident statistics for Gregg County, Texas (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Gregg County by year

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

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 14.8% in 2020, 25.0% in 2021, 24.2% in 2022, 7.4% in 2023 and 20.0% in 2024. Although 2022 had the highest truck accident death count, 2021 had the highest share. All traffic deaths numbered 27, 20, 33, 27 and 25 in those respective years.^{[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 Gregg County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 4 deaths, or 16.7%. People in other vehicles accounted for 15 deaths, or 62.5%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 5 deaths, or 20.8%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The grouping can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles; it is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle. These categories describe people killed in qualifying truck accidents.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal crashes in Gregg County involved 28 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) accounted for 19 trucks, or 67.9% of the large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 9 trucks. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These are vehicle counts, distinct from the 23 fatal crashes and 24 truck accident deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. The truck-tractor share uses large trucks as its denominator, rather than fatal 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. Angle (side impact) recorded 8 deaths (33.3%); head-on, 0 (0.0%); rear-end, 6 (25.0%); sideswipe, 2 (8.3%); and other, 3 (12.5%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 5 deaths (20.8%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events involving a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle, fixed object or rollover. Vehicles stopped in traffic can be in transport.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, crash configuration classifies truck accident deaths by vehicle count: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 3 deaths (12.5%), two-vehicle crashes for 17 (70.8%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 4 (16.7%). These shares describe configuration, not manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded crashes accounted for 12 truck accident deaths, or 50.0%. The listed route, I-20, recorded 12 deaths. Interstate figures require an interstate route code and a readable interstate route number; the listed routes represent 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 11 deaths (45.8%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 13 deaths (54.2%). Urban locations recorded 10 deaths (41.7%), while rural locations recorded 14 (58.3%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 0. These figures count deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Texas and the United States

Gregg County's truck accident death rate was 3.8 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. The Texas rate was 2.5, and the national rate was 1.6. Gregg County's rate was higher than both. The listed neighboring counties had rates of 4.1 in Smith County and 6.8 in Harrison County, each higher than Gregg County's rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Among the listed neighboring counties, Harrison County had the higher rate, while Smith County recorded 49 deaths compared with Harrison County's 24. Rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors, and the deaths are counted 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 NHTSA's 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 death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. Readers searching for "truck accident lawyer" should note that these counts group deaths by crash county, not home county.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 figures use FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rate calculations use the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025. The separately reported July 1, 2024 population estimate of 126,387 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Harrison County, Texas (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Smith County, Texas (2020-2024)