Arizona is the 16th most deadly state for truck drivers, study finds

Arizona is the 16th most deadly state for truck drivers, according to a study.

A study from the Parrish Law Firm , truck accident attorneys in Virginia, examined data from the U.S. Department of Transportation to analyze the number of truck driver collisions within each state in 2022.

The study then analyzed data from the Federal Highway Administration to calculate the number of casualties per billion miles driven.

Arizona was determined 1.18 truck driver deaths per million miles driven, which is more than twice the rate of the 14 safest states and more than five times the rate of the safest state, Maine at 0.21 deaths per million miles driven.

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Conversely, Arizona’s truck driver fatality rate is less than half the rate of the most deadly state – neighboring New Mexico with a rate of 2.77 deaths per million miles.

In 2022, 90 incidents involving truckers occurred in New Mexico, resulting in 22 deaths.

While Arizona also scored slightly safer than neighboring Nevada (1.26), neighboring California (0.4), Utah (0.5) and Colorado (0.83) all had significantly safer scores than the Grand Canyon State.

Editor's note: The above was republished from a Parrish Law Firm news release.