Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

As you can see from this map, most of the South Carolina tractor trailer truck accidents involving injury and death happen near the major population centers of Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. The I-85 corridor along Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Cherokee Counties has long had a reputation as a congested interstate. The map above does nothing to dispel that reputation. Certainly, I-26 and I-95 also have increasingly bad reputations for 18 wheeler truck accidents.

The ‘Large Trucks Involved in Fatal and Non-Fatal Crashes' report illustrated by the map shows how many large trucks were involved in fatal and non-fatal crashes. The crash data are aggregated to the state county level and are provided in map and table format. The fatal crash data are collected from FARS, and the non-fatal crash data are collected from MCMIS.

In the map format each county in South Carolina is color coded to represent the range of the number of large trucks involved in reportable crashes. The table format displays the number of trucks involved in reportable crashes. The option to display layers (data values, state/county names, major cities and interstates) is available in the map format. Displaying layers is used for reference purposes only.

Definitions

Fatal crash - A crash where one or more persons dies within 30 days of the crash. The fatality does not have to occur at the scene of the crash. It includes any person involved in the crash, including pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as occupants of the passenger cars, trucks and buses.

Non-fatal crash - A crash where one or more persons has non-fatal injuries requiring transportation by a vehicle for the purpose of obtaining immediate medical attention; or one or more of the vehicles were towed away from the scene due to "disabling damage". The towed vehicle need not be the truck involved in the crash.