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

Truck accident deaths in Lubbock County by year

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

The share of all traffic deaths attributed to truck accidents was 14.0% in 2020, 14.3% in 2021, 15.7% in 2022, 6.8% in 2023 and 9.8% in 2024. The highest share occurred in 2022, while the highest death count occurred in 2021. All traffic deaths numbered 43, 63, 51, 59 and 51 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 Lubbock County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 7 deaths, or 21.9%. People in other vehicles accounted for 22 deaths, or 68.8%, the majority of truck accident deaths. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 9.4%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

That quoted label represents 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. It is therefore a person-type classification rather than a literal test of whether someone was outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The truck accident vehicle figures identify 32 large trucks in fatal crashes during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) numbered 12 and represented 37.5% of those large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 20. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 1.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in this table counts vehicles. These are not counts of crashes or deaths, and a crash can involve multiple large trucks. The 32 large trucks belong to a different measure from the county's 30 fatal crashes and 32 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 14 deaths, head-on 3, rear-end 4, sideswipe 3 and Other 1. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 7 deaths. This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, including events 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 configuration figures show single-vehicle crashes accounted for 5 deaths (15.6%), two-vehicle crashes for 26 (81.2%), and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 1 (3.1%). These death shares classify vehicle involvement separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 3, or 9.4%. The listed I-27 count was 3 deaths. These figures require an interstate route classification and a parseable interstate route number; the listed route counts cover the packet's coded subset, not a full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 16 deaths (50.0%), and nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 16 (50.0%). Urban locations recorded 17 deaths (53.1%), while rural locations recorded 15 (46.9%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 1. The work-zone figure counts deaths rather than vehicles or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Texas and the United States

Lubbock County's truck accident death rate was 2.0 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was lower than the Texas rate of 2.5 and higher than the United States rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts were 32 for the county, 3,712 for Texas and 27,553 nationally. No neighboring county rates are supplied in the packet.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The rates use deaths divided by the sum of annual Census population estimates and multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. Readers using the phrase "truck accident lawyer" should keep the grouping clear: these rates use crash location, not the home addresses of the people who died.^{[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.^[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 divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the sum of annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025 and multiply by 100,000. The separate July 1, 2024 estimate of 325,137 is not the denominator. Rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents without adjustments for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Lubbock County, Texas (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)