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

Truck accident deaths in Spokane County by year

Truck accident deaths fell from 3 in 2020 to 2 in 2021, then rose to 6 in 2022, 7 in 2023 and 10 in 2024. The highest count was 10 in 2024; the lowest was 2 in 2021. The 2024 count was 7 deaths higher than the 2020 count.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The yearly share of traffic deaths occurring in truck accidents was 5.8% in 2020, 3.5% in 2021, 14.6% in 2022, 11.7% in 2023 and 18.2% in 2024. All traffic deaths numbered 52, 57, 41, 60 and 55 in those respective years. Although truck accident deaths rose from 2022 to 2023, their share of all traffic deaths fell.^{[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 Spokane County truck accidents

People in the large truck accounted for 5 deaths, or 17.9%. People in other vehicles accounted for 17 deaths, or 60.7%, the largest person category in these truck accident records. The row "Pedestrians, bicyclists and other people outside vehicles" accounted for 6 deaths, or 21.4%.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The quoted label refers to the FARS nonoccupant grouping, which includes pedestrians, pedalcyclists and other or unknown nonoccupants. Whether someone was outside a vehicle is not literally what it tests: occupants of motor vehicles not in transport, such as parked vehicles, can fall within the other category.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

The trucks involved

The fatal truck accident records list 24 large trucks for 2020 through 2024. Truck-tractors, described as semi or tractor-trailer units, numbered 9 and represented 37.5% of those trucks. Single-unit and other large trucks numbered 15. The count of large trucks recorded as jackknifed was 0.^{[1][2][3][4][5][8][7]}

These figures count vehicles, not fatal crashes or deaths. A crash can involve multiple large trucks. Although the packet also records 24 fatal crashes, that crash count is a separate measure from the 24 large trucks involved.^{[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 11 deaths (39.3%), head-on 5 (17.9%), rear-end 0 (0.0%) and sideswipe 1 (3.6%). "Not a collision with another moving vehicle" recorded 11 (39.3%). This means no collision with a motor vehicle in transport, such as striking a pedestrian, cyclist, parked vehicle or fixed object, or a rollover. A vehicle in transport can be stopped in traffic.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Separately, truck accident deaths by crash configuration were 11 (39.3%) in single-vehicle crashes, 13 (46.4%) in two-vehicle crashes and 4 (14.3%) in crashes involving three or more vehicles. Configuration counts vehicles involved; it is separate from manner of collision.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Interstates, time of day and setting

Interstate-coded truck accident deaths numbered 3, or 10.7%; the listed I-90 count was 3 deaths. These figures require an interstate route classification and a readable interstate route number in the road identifier. The listed route is a 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 (71.4%). Nighttime, from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., accounted for 8 (28.6%). Urban locations recorded 18 deaths (64.3%), and rural locations recorded 10 (35.7%). Work-zone records identified 2 deaths, a count of people killed rather than trucks or crashes.^{[1][2][3][4][5][7]}

Truck accident death rate compared with Washington and the United States

The average annual truck accident death rate was 1.0 per 100,000 residents in Spokane County, the same as Washington's 1.0 and lower than the national rate of 1.6. The corresponding death counts for 2020 through 2024 were 28 in the county, 389 statewide and 27,553 nationally. The supplied figures do not list neighboring county rates.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

These rates express average annual deaths per 100,000 residents using the sum of annual Census population estimates. They do not adjust for miles driven or visitors. The county's separately reported 2024 population was 555,485. For readers searching for a truck accident lawyer, the grouping remains crash location, not the home county of the people killed.^{[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. Nonfatal crashes and injuries are excluded. County counts follow where the crash happened, not where those killed lived.^[9][6][7][8]

The 2020 through 2023 records are FARS Final Files. The 2024 Annual Report File can change when replaced by the Final File. Rates 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 population estimate is not the denominator. These average annual rates do not adjust for miles driven or visitors.^[9][6][7][8]

See also

On related publications

• Car accident statistics for Spokane County, Washington (2020-2024) (caraccidentlawyers.wiki)