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

Truck accident deaths in Orange County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 9 in 2020 to 3 in 2021, remained at 3 in 2022, rose to 5 in 2023 and fell to 0 in 2024. The highest count was 9 in 2020, and the lowest was 0 in 2024. The 2024 count was 9 deaths lower than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

All traffic deaths were 33 in 2020, 21 in 2021, 20 in 2022, 18 in 2023 and 15 in 2024. The corresponding truck accident shares were 27.3%, 14.3%, 15.0%, 27.8% and 0.0%. The highest share occurred in 2023, while the highest truck accident death count occurred in 2020. These are annual death counts, rather than counts of fatal crashes.^{[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 Orange County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 2 deaths, or 10.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 15 deaths, or 75.0%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 3 deaths, or 15.0%, in truck accidents during 2020 through 2024.^{[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 parked motor vehicles. The label therefore does not mean that everyone in the category was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The vehicle records identify 18 large trucks in fatal crashes in Orange County from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors (semi or tractor-trailer units) accounted for 14 trucks, representing 77.8% of the large trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks accounted for 4 trucks. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal truck accidents. They are distinct from the 16 fatal crashes and 20 deaths recorded during the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the trucks table is not a count of individual 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 11 deaths (55.0%); head-on, 3 (15.0%); angle (side impact), 2 (10.0%); and sideswipe, 1 (5.0%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 3 deaths (15.0%). 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 in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 2 (10.0%); two-vehicle, 15 (75.0%); and three or more vehicles, 3 (15.0%). 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 13, representing 65.0% of the county's truck accident deaths during 2020 through 2024. The listed route-coded count for I-10 was 13 deaths. Interstate identification uses ROUTE=1 and a parseable I-route number in TWAY_ID. The listed route counts describe that coded subset, not the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime (6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m.) accounted for 15 deaths (75.0%), and nighttime (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) accounted for 5 (25.0%). Urban locations recorded 15 deaths (75.0%); rural locations recorded 5 (25.0%). Work-zone records counted 6 deaths, a measure of people killed rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Texas and the United States

Orange County's truck accident rate was 4.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was higher than the Texas rate of 2.5 and the United States rate of 1.6. Among the listed neighboring counties, Jefferson County, Texas, and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, each had a rate of 2.7. Orange County's rate was higher than each listed neighbor's rate.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The 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. For readers using the phrase "truck accident lawyer," the grouping to keep in mind is crash location: these death counts do not identify where the people killed lived.^{[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

NHTSA's 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. Counts follow crash location, not the deceased person's residence. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. The 2020 through 2023 figures use Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File and can be revised when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Average annual deaths per 100,000 residents use 2020 through 2024 deaths divided by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, multiplied by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (2020-2024)
• Truck accident statistics for Jefferson County, Texas (2020-2024)