Truck accident statistics for Grant County, Washington (2020-2024)

Truck accident deaths in Grant County by year

Truck accident deaths rose from 7 in 2020 to 8 in 2021, then fell to 5 in 2022 and 3 in 2023. The count rose to 9 in 2024, the highest year in the period. The lowest year was 2023. The 2024 count was 2 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The truck accident share of all traffic deaths was 36.8% in 2020, 36.4% in 2021, 15.6% in 2022, 12.5% in 2023 and 34.6% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 19, 22, 32, 24 and 26 in those respective years. The highest truck accident death count occurred in 2024, while the highest share occurred in 2020.^{[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 Grant County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 3 deaths, or 9.4%. People in other vehicles accounted for 28 deaths, or 87.5%, 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 3.1%. This label represents the FARS nonoccupant grouping, including pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. The other category can include occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, so the label is not a literal test of being outside a vehicle.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

Fatal truck accidents in Grant County involved 30 large trucks during 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described in the table as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 17 and represented 56.7% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 13. Large trucks recorded as jackknifed numbered 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles involved in fatal crashes. They are distinct from the 27 fatal crashes and 32 deaths recorded for the period. A crash can involve multiple large trucks, so the truck count is not a count of separate truck accidents 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) accounted for 13 deaths, or 40.6%; head-on for 7, or 21.9%; rear-end for 7, or 21.9%; and sideswipe for 2, or 6.2%. "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" accounted for 3 deaths, or 9.4%. It means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, which can include a vehicle stopped in traffic. Examples include a rollover or striking a fixed object.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separate crash-configuration figures classify truck accident deaths by vehicle count: single-vehicle crashes accounted for 2 deaths, or 6.2%; two-vehicle crashes for 23, or 71.9%; and crashes involving three or more vehicles for 7, or 21.9%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 3, or 9.4%, with 3 listed for I-90. These figures require ROUTE=1 and a parseable interstate route number in TWAY_ID. The listed route counts describe 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 20 deaths, or 62.5%. Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 12 deaths, or 37.5%. Urban locations recorded 2 deaths, or 6.2%, and rural locations recorded 30 deaths, or 93.8%. Work-zone deaths numbered 0; this measure counts deaths rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Washington and the United States

Grant County's truck accident death rate was 6.3 average annual deaths per 100,000 residents for 2020 through 2024. That rate was higher than Washington's 1.0 and the national rate of 1.6. Yakima County, the listed neighboring county, had a rate of 2.6. The corresponding death counts were 32 in Grant County, 389 in Washington, 27,553 nationally and 34 in Yakima County.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates divide deaths by the sum of annual Census population estimates and express the result per 100,000 residents per year. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. For a reader searching for a truck accident lawyer, the counts here are grouped by crash location, not by 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

FARS is NHTSA's census of fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes on trafficways customarily open to the public, with an occupant or nonoccupant death within 30 days. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts identify where crashes happened, not where people killed lived. Data for 2020 through 2023 use Final Files; 2024 uses the Annual Report File, subject to revision when replaced by the Final File.^[9][6][7][8]

Average annual rates divide 2020 through 2024 deaths by the summed annual Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025, and multiply by 100,000. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The separate July 1, 2024 population estimate of 104,834 is not the rate denominator.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

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