Data report · FMCSA Crash File · Updated September 30, 2026

Truck accident statistics by state

Every reportable crash involving a commercial truck from 2016 through 2025, by state and year, from FMCSA’s crash records, counted once per crash. Refreshed from the source, sortable, downloadable and free to cite.

Texas has the most truck accident deaths: 7,137 people died in crashes involving commercial trucks there from 2016 through 2025 (732 in 2024 alone), followed by California (4,369) and Florida (3,310). Nationwide, 5,182 people died in 2024. 2025 figures are preliminary.

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By Sam Alishahi, independent insurance broker · Data through 2026-09-30

2024, the latest complete year

Crashes involving commercial trucks, nationwide

5,182people died in crashes involving commercial trucks in 2024, +11% from 2016

158,085reportable truck crashes in 2024: a death, an injury treated away from the scene, or a vehicle towed

5,944deaths in 2022, the highest year from 2016 through 2025

29%of truck crash deaths from 2016 through 2025 were in Texas, California and Florida

By year

Deaths peaked in 2022, then fell

Deaths in crashes involving commercial trucks per year nationwide. *2025 is preliminary: states are still filing crash reports for it, so the figure is likely to rise.

By state

The 15 states with the most truck crash deaths, 2016–2025

Total deaths in crashes involving commercial trucks, by the state where the crash happened.

What the data shows

51,044 people died in crashes involving commercial trucks from 2016 through 2025. Deaths rose from 4,651 in 2016 to a peak of 5,944 in 2022, and were 5,182 in 2024, the latest complete year.

Texas has the most truck crash deaths by a wide margin: 7,137 over the period, then California (4,369), Florida (3,310), Georgia (2,051), Illinois (1,663), Ohio (1,651). The totals count where crashes happened and are not adjusted for miles driven or population.

Change from 2016 to 2024, among states with at least 50 deaths in 2016: increases in Arizona (+68%), Tennessee (+45%), South Carolina (+44%), Virginia (+44%), Oregon (+43%); decreases in Kentucky (-25%), Alabama (-24%), Iowa (-19%), Michigan (-11%), Louisiana (-8%).

Most reportable crashes are not fatal. Of 158,085 reportable truck crashes in 2024, 4,647 involved a death and 55,826 an injury; the rest met FMCSA’s threshold because a vehicle was towed from the scene.

For a trucking company, a reportable crash stays on its record: FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System uses the last 24 months of crashes, and the crash history is one of the first things an underwriter checks (how CSA scores work; truck insurance).

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Every state, sortable

Click a column to sort. Ranked by total deaths 2016–2025. *2025 is preliminary.

Rank	State	Deaths 2016–2025	Deaths 2024	Fatal crashes 2024	Injury crashes 2024	All reportable crashes 2024	Deaths, 2016→2024	Deaths 2025*
1	Texas	7,137	732	664	8,075	18,831	+16%	580
2	California	4,369	400	371	4,000	11,654	-7%	305
3	Florida	3,310	363	334	3,326	8,909	+16%	252
4	Georgia	2,051	181	167	2,980	8,668	+6%	185
5	Illinois	1,663	165	147	2,395	6,677	+7%	141
6	Ohio	1,651	164	144	1,875	5,186	+28%	147
7	North Carolina	1,571	175	155	2,280	5,172	+11%	129
8	Tennessee	1,554	167	154	1,391	3,961	+45%	132
9	Pennsylvania	1,552	158	135	2,247	7,102	-3%	138
10	Indiana	1,409	141	133	1,267	5,042	+22%	100
11	Alabama	1,323	116	112	1,115	3,399	-24%	110
12	Missouri	1,296	149	128	1,681	5,071	+19%	111
13	Arizona	1,204	143	115	778	2,562	+68%	138
14	New York	1,201	124	119	2,669	3,691	+5%	91
15	South Carolina	1,198	145	130	1,344	3,072	+44%	115
16	Oklahoma	1,174	123	108	973	2,907	-1%	130
17	Virginia	1,079	122	110	1,621	5,125	+44%	101
18	Michigan	994	102	90	1,192	5,507	-11%	124
19	Louisiana	988	80	74	1,300	3,472	-8%	99
20	Kentucky	962	79	72	926	2,725	-25%	80
21	Colorado	923	105	84	471	1,805	+28%	63
22	Arkansas	915	95	78	899	2,614	+27%	88
23	Mississippi	876	90	80	647	1,367	+12%	52
24	Wisconsin	858	79	61	619	2,269	+0%	58
25	Kansas	787	64	58	425	1,774	-7%	65
26	New Jersey	785	77	70	1,974	5,326	+4%	76
27	Iowa	690	60	54	570	2,076	-19%	48
28	New Mexico	664	72	63	271	806	—	52
29	Washington	663	64	59	389	1,938	+10%	54
30	Oregon	644	77	63	424	1,825	+43%	61
31	Minnesota	616	72	62	552	1,982	+18%	58
32	Maryland	603	74	70	1,183	3,440	+12%	49
33	Nebraska	533	55	48	346	1,006	-4%	54
34	Utah	422	42	33	311	940	—	42
35	Idaho	408	43	40	299	675	—	33
36	West Virginia	394	26	24	280	880	—	31
37	Nevada	382	38	31	281	849	—	42
38	Massachusetts	319	35	33	636	1,681	—	22
39	Connecticut	292	36	32	412	1,377	—	13
40	Wyoming	256	17	17	193	888	—	27
41	Montana	245	26	25	160	611	—	30
42	Maine	205	26	25	325	747	—	25
43	North Dakota	202	22	21	159	501	—	19
44	South Dakota	196	24	22	41	481	—	21
45	Delaware	136	10	10	188	519	—	4
46	New Hampshire	114	8	8	113	394	—	15
47	Vermont	65	2	2	55	180	—	6
48	Hawaii	64	2	2	60	104	—	10
49	Alaska	54	8	7	15	38	—	3
50	Rhode Island	39	4	3	49	104	—	0
51	District of Columbia	8	0	0	44	155	—	0

Method and source

All figures come from FMCSA’s Crash File on the Department of Transportation’s open data portal, queried through its public API (crash reports dated through 2026-09-30). States report crashes involving commercial motor vehicles that meet the federal threshold: a fatality, an injury requiring treatment away from the scene, or a vehicle towed because of disabling damage. We count crash reports with at least one truck that FMCSA marks as federally recordable, by the state where the crash happened. The file lists one row per vehicle and repeats the crash’s death and injury totals on each row, so we count each crash report once; summing rows would overstate deaths. Bus-only crashes are excluded. “Injury crashes” are crashes with at least one injury. 2025 is preliminary because states continue to file reports after the year ends.

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