Texas has one of the highest rates of truck accidents in the country. As Texas’s biggest city, Houston is responsible for a large share of these collisions.
In 2021, there were a total of 38,149 crashes in Texas involving commercial vehicles. Harris County was the scene of 5,743 truck accidents in 2021 — over 15% of the accidents statewide. These collisions resulted in 44 fatalities and 149 serious injuries. They also caused nearly 1,900 minor injuries.