Truck accident statistics for Salt Lake County, Utah (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Salt Lake County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 6 in 2020 to 8 in 2021, then to 10 in 2022 and 14 in 2023. The count fell to 6 in 2024. The highest count was in 2023; 2020 and 2024 shared the lowest count. The 2020 and 2024 counts were the same, with a change of 0 deaths.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The yearly shares of all traffic deaths were 8.5%, 9.8%, 10.6%, 20.6% and 8.2%, respectively. All traffic deaths numbered 71 in 2020, 82 in 2021, 94 in 2022, 68 in 2023 and 73 in 2024. The highest truck accident death share occurred in 2023, while the lowest share occurred 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 Salt Lake County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 11 deaths, or 25.0%. People in other vehicles accounted for 27 deaths, or 61.4%, the largest person category. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" recorded 6 deaths, or 13.6%. These categories describe people killed in truck accidents from 2020 through 2024.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted row is the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. That grouping can include occupants of parked motor vehicles. Its label therefore does not mean that every person counted was physically outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Salt Lake County involved 44 large trucks from 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 26 and represented 59.1% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 18. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 2.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

Each figure in the trucks table counts vehicles. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so these figures are distinct from the 40 fatal crashes and 44 deaths recorded during the period. The jackknifed figure likewise counts trucks, rather than deaths or crashes.^{[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 13 deaths (29.5%); head-on, 7 (15.9%); rear-end, 8 (18.2%); sideswipe, 1 (2.3%); and not reported, 1 (2.3%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 14 (31.8%). 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, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were single-vehicle, 10 (22.7%); two-vehicle, 19 (43.2%); and three or more vehicles, 15 (34.1%). Configuration describes vehicle counts separately from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 15, or 34.1%. The listed route counts were I-80 with 6 deaths, I-15 with 5 and I-215 with 4. These figures require interstate route coding and a readable I-route number; the listed routes represent the packet's coded subset, not the full road network.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Daytime, from 6 a.m. to 5:59 p.m., recorded 29 deaths (65.9%); nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., recorded 15 (34.1%). Urban locations recorded 37 deaths (84.1%), and rural locations recorded 7 (15.9%). Work-zone truck accident deaths numbered 2; that figure counts deaths, not trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Utah and the United States

Salt Lake County's truck accident death rate was 0.7 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. Utah's rate was 1.6, and the national rate was 1.6. The listed neighboring county, Utah County, had a rate of 0.9. Salt Lake County's rate was lower than each of those comparison rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

The corresponding death counts were 44 in Salt Lake County, 270 in Utah, 27,553 nationally and 30 in Utah County. 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. When reading with "truck accident lawyer" in mind, keep the crash-location counts distinct from the population-based rates.^{[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. Counts follow the county where the crash occurred, not where the people killed lived. The 2020 through 2023 records are Final Files; the 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by summed annual Census Bureau population estimates from Vintage 2025, then multiply by 100,000. The result is average annual deaths per 100,000 residents, without adjustment for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 1,217,454 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

• Truck accident statistics for Utah County, Utah (2020-2024)

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Salt Lake County, Utah (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)