{
  "data_source": "NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), National CSV downloads, 2018-2024",
  "data_pulled": "2026-09-15",
  "state": "Washington",
  "date_range": "2018-01-01 to 2024-12-31",
  "preliminary_years": [
    2024
  ],
  "severity_filter": "Fatal crashes only. FARS records a crash when at least one person dies within 30 days.",
  "definitions": {
    "large_truck": "FARS BODY_TYP 60-64, 66, 67, 71, 72 or 78: trucks over 10,000 lbs GVWR.",
    "pedestrian": "PER_TYP 5, plus people on personal conveyances (PER_TYP 8, or 11-13 in 2020-2021).",
    "cyclist": "PER_TYP 6 or 7.",
    "struck_by_truck": "The person record's striking vehicle (STR_VEH) is a large truck.",
    "contact": "Area of impact on the truck for the crash event in which it struck the person; the truck's initial contact point where that event is missing or ambiguous."
  },
  "totals": {
    "crashes": 485,
    "deaths": 541,
    "truck_occupant_deaths": 75,
    "other_vehicle_deaths": 339,
    "motorcyclist_deaths": 45,
    "ped_deaths": 69,
    "bike_deaths": 13,
    "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
    "vru_struck_by_truck": 77,
    "all_traffic_deaths": 4607,
    "truck_share_pct": 11.7,
    "all_ped_deaths": 915,
    "all_bike_deaths": 93,
    "peds_struck_by_truck": 64,
    "cyclists_struck_by_truck": 13,
    "peds_struck_share_pct": 7.0,
    "cyclists_struck_share_pct": 14.0,
    "geocoded_points": 485,
    "geocoded_pct": 100.0,
    "repeat_locations": 6
  },
  "pooled": {
    "early_years": [
      2018,
      2019,
      2020
    ],
    "late_years": [
      2022,
      2023,
      2024
    ],
    "truck_deaths": [
      205,
      244
    ],
    "truck_deaths_change_pct": 19.0,
    "all_deaths": [
      1651,
      2282
    ],
    "all_deaths_change_pct": 38.2,
    "vru_struck_by_truck": [
      25,
      34
    ],
    "vru_struck_by_truck_change_pct": 36.0
  },
  "contact": {
    "front": 51,
    "side": 12,
    "underside": 6,
    "rear": 4,
    "other": 0,
    "unknown": 4
  },
  "us_contact_pct": {
    "front": 67.8,
    "side": 12.7,
    "underside": 3.4,
    "rear": 5.5,
    "other": 2.2,
    "unknown": 8.5
  },
  "top_corridor": "I-5",
  "top_corridor_deaths": 60,
  "seattle": {
    "crashes": 20,
    "deaths": 21,
    "truck_occupant_deaths": 2,
    "other_vehicle_deaths": 5,
    "motorcyclist_deaths": 5,
    "ped_deaths": 8,
    "bike_deaths": 1,
    "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
    "vru_struck_by_truck": 8,
    "by_year": [
      {
        "year": 2018,
        "crashes": 1,
        "deaths": 1,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 0,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 1,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 1
      },
      {
        "year": 2019,
        "crashes": 2,
        "deaths": 2,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 1,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 1,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 1
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "crashes": 1,
        "deaths": 1,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 1,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 0,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 0
      },
      {
        "year": 2021,
        "crashes": 4,
        "deaths": 4,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 1,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 2,
        "bike_deaths": 1,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 3
      },
      {
        "year": 2022,
        "crashes": 4,
        "deaths": 4,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 1,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 1,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 2,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 2
      },
      {
        "year": 2023,
        "crashes": 4,
        "deaths": 4,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 1,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 1,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 2,
        "ped_deaths": 0,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 0
      },
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "crashes": 4,
        "deaths": 5,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 0,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 3,
        "ped_deaths": 2,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 1
      }
    ],
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      "zones": [
        {
          "zone": "front",
          "count": 6,
          "pct": 75.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "side",
          "count": 0,
          "pct": 0.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "underside",
          "count": 0,
          "pct": 0.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "rear",
          "count": 0,
          "pct": 0.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "other",
          "count": 0,
          "pct": 0.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "unknown",
          "count": 2,
          "pct": 25.0
        }
      ]
    },
    "vru_ids": [
      "2018-530354-1",
      "2019-530387-1",
      "2021-530096-1",
      "2021-530314-1",
      "2021-530625-1",
      "2022-530676-1",
      "2022-530565-1",
      "2024-530678-1"
    ]
  },
  "king_county": {
    "crashes": 94,
    "deaths": 99,
    "truck_occupant_deaths": 10,
    "other_vehicle_deaths": 45,
    "motorcyclist_deaths": 13,
    "ped_deaths": 26,
    "bike_deaths": 5,
    "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
    "vru_struck_by_truck": 29,
    "by_year": [
      {
        "year": 2018,
        "crashes": 12,
        "deaths": 13,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 1,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 5,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 2,
        "ped_deaths": 3,
        "bike_deaths": 2,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 5
      },
      {
        "year": 2019,
        "crashes": 10,
        "deaths": 10,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 6,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 1,
        "ped_deaths": 3,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 3
      },
      {
        "year": 2020,
        "crashes": 7,
        "deaths": 8,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 0,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 7,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 1,
        "ped_deaths": 0,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 0
      },
      {
        "year": 2021,
        "crashes": 23,
        "deaths": 23,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 3,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 9,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 1,
        "ped_deaths": 9,
        "bike_deaths": 1,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 10
      },
      {
        "year": 2022,
        "crashes": 13,
        "deaths": 13,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 2,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 6,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 0,
        "ped_deaths": 5,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 5
      },
      {
        "year": 2023,
        "crashes": 18,
        "deaths": 20,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 2,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 9,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 4,
        "ped_deaths": 3,
        "bike_deaths": 2,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 5
      },
      {
        "year": 2024,
        "crashes": 11,
        "deaths": 12,
        "truck_occupant_deaths": 2,
        "other_vehicle_deaths": 3,
        "motorcyclist_deaths": 4,
        "ped_deaths": 3,
        "bike_deaths": 0,
        "other_nonmotorist_deaths": 0,
        "vru_struck_by_truck": 1
      }
    ],
    "vru_contact": {
      "n": 29,
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        {
          "zone": "front",
          "count": 19,
          "pct": 65.5
        },
        {
          "zone": "side",
          "count": 2,
          "pct": 6.9
        },
        {
          "zone": "underside",
          "count": 3,
          "pct": 10.3
        },
        {
          "zone": "rear",
          "count": 2,
          "pct": 6.9
        },
        {
          "zone": "other",
          "count": 0,
          "pct": 0.0
        },
        {
          "zone": "unknown",
          "count": 3,
          "pct": 10.3
        }
      ]
    },
    "vru_ids": [
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      "2018-530219-1",
      "2018-530354-1",
      "2018-530335-1",
      "2018-530477-1",
      "2019-530008-1",
      "2019-530324-1",
      "2019-530387-1",
      "2021-530080-1",
      "2021-530096-1",
      "2021-530087-1",
      "2021-530167-1",
      "2021-530314-1",
      "2021-530625-1",
      "2021-530396-1",
      "2021-530421-1",
      "2021-530578-1",
      "2021-530602-1",
      "2022-530003-1",
      "2022-530146-1",
      "2022-530111-1",
      "2022-530676-1",
      "2022-530565-1",
      "2023-530273-1",
      "2023-530451-1",
      "2023-530550-1",
      "2023-530598-1",
      "2023-530592-1",
      "2024-530678-1"
    ]
  },
  "underride_not_reported_pct_2021_2024": {
    "washington": 86.2,
    "rest_of_us": 26.3
  }
}