# Caddo Parish Truck Crash Data, 2020 to 2024: What the Numbers Show Caddo Parish truck crash data for 2020 through 2024 is a record of 19 fatal large-truck crashes and 22 deaths, 11 of the crashes inside Shreveport and most of them on I-20 and I-49. The parish's two interstates carry the region's freight through the middle of the city, and the federal fatality file, the state's crash reports and the regional safety plans all point at the same stretches of road. The figures below set out what those records show year by year, where the fatal crashes concentrate, which agencies investigate them, and the filing deadline that applies to anyone hurt in one. ## Caddo Parish truck deaths, 2020 to 2024 Caddo Parish sits where I-20 and I-49 cross, and the trucks that move through Northwest Louisiana move through Shreveport. Medium and heavy trucks are about a fifth of peak-period traffic on I-[20 through downtown](https://www.nlcog.org/pdfs/library/CMP/2025_Update/NLCOG_2025CMP_FINAL_12192025.pdf), the highest truck share of any congested segment the regional planning council measured. The Inner Loop carries about 6,800 trucks a day, among the ten heaviest truck routes in Louisiana, [and the state's freight plan](https://dotd.la.gov/media/qquhsdst/2024-louisiana-state-freight-plan.pdf) ranks I-20 through Shreveport among its highest-need corridors. Across all crash severities, about one in five large-truck or bus crashes in the parish from [2020 through](https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip) 2024 happened on I-20. The record below covers the parish and Shreveport inside it from 2020 through 2024: what the federal and state figures each measure, where the fatal crashes concentrate, and who investigates them. From 2020 through 2024, [the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System](https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/) recorded 19 fatal crashes in Caddo Parish that involved a large truck, and 22 people died in them. At least 11 of those crashes happened inside Shreveport city limits, and 14 people died in them.
Fatal large-truck crashes and deaths, Caddo Parish and inside Shreveport, 2020 to 2024
YearCaddo crashesCaddo deathsShreveport crashesShreveport deaths
20204433
20215724
20224433
20231100
20245634
Fatal large-truck crashes by year, for the parish and for Shreveport. In 2024 alone, the fatality file shows five Caddo Parish crashes with a large truck, and six people died in them. ## Two counts of Caddo Parish truck crashes in 2024 The counts above cover only fatal crashes. For 2024, [a state report](https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf) and a federal file each count truck crashes more broadly, and they differ because they measure different things. Louisiana's crash data counts every police-reported commercial vehicle crash at any severity. [The federal file](https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip) keeps only the crashes the state has uploaded. The file takes only crashes with a death, an injury treated away from the scene, or a tow-away. ### The state count and the federal count for 2024 In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 214 [crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle](/blog/truck-accident-statistics/), according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report. Five of them were fatal and 116 caused injuries. That report breaks the 214 into 5 fatal crashes, 116 injury crashes and 93 property-damage-only crashes. Federal records list 207 crashes involving a large truck or bus in Caddo Parish in 2024, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)'s crash file. Six people were killed and 153 injured.
Commercial vehicle crashes in Caddo Parish, 2024, state report and federal crash file
MeasureState report (commercial motor vehicles)Federal crash file (large trucks and buses)
Fatal crashes55
Injury crashes11695
Property damage only or towaway93107
Total214207
People killed and injurednot given per vehicle type6 killed, 153 injured
The state report counts crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle; the federal file counts crashes involving a large truck or bus. The two labels overlap but are not identical. States send crash records to the federal file after the fact, and a recent year can run short until the uploads catch up. That is a general reason the two files can differ, not a finding about the Caddo numbers. ### Three measures of Caddo Parish truck crashes, kept apart The state count, the federal count and the fatal count in the first section are three different measures. [The fatality file](https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/) counts only crashes where someone died, so its 2024 figure for Caddo is far smaller than either of the other two. None of the three counts says what caused any crash. ## Caddo Parish against the rest of Louisiana From [2020 through](https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf) 2024, Caddo Parish had 17 of Louisiana's 482 fatal crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle, about 3.5%. In the same years it had about 4.8% of the state's licensed drivers. In 2024 alone, 13.16% of Caddo's fatal crashes involved a commercial vehicle, above the statewide 10.76%. The 17 [here is the state report's](https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/) count. The 19 in the first section is the federal fatality file's, and the two are not one series. In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 38 fatal crashes and 42 people killed, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report. Commercial vehicles were involved in 5 of those 38 fatal crashes, about 13%. Statewide, 76 of the 482 commercial-vehicle fatal crashes in the five years happened in 2024. ### Northwest Louisiana in the state's commercial vehicle safety plan [The state's commercial vehicle safety plan](https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/FY%2025%20Louisiana%20CVSP%20-%20Final.pdf) adds a regional comparison, grouping Caddo with two neighboring parishes rather than measuring the parish alone. In 2023, Caddo and those two neighboring parishes together accounted for 11.83% of all commercial vehicle crashes in Louisiana, that plan says. In the same plan, State Police lists both I-20 and I-49 among Louisiana's high-crash corridors. ## Where the fatal truck crashes happen in Caddo Parish Of the [19 fatal large-truck crashes in](https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip) Caddo Parish from 2020 through 2024, eight were on I-20 and three on I-49. Across all crashes, not only fatal ones, about one in five large-truck or bus crashes in Caddo Parish from 2020 through 2024 happened on I-20. ### I-20 through Shreveport: truck share, injuries and planned safety work [In the Northwest Louisiana Council](https://www.nlcog.org/pdfs/library/CMP/2025_Update/NLCOG_2025CMP_FINAL_12192025.pdf) of Governments' 2025 congestion study, medium and heavy trucks were 21% of peak-period traffic on eastbound I-20 from I-49 to the Traffic Street exit downtown. That was the highest truck share of the ten congested segments the council ranked, using July 2022 to July 2023 data. The [2025 Northwest Louisiana regional safety action plan](https://nlcog.org/pdfs/library/SS4A/20250217_NLCOG%20SS4A%20Plan%20Reduced%20Size.pdf) maps where fatal and serious injury crashes concentrated from 2018 to 2022. What the plan calls its high-injury network includes stretches of I-20 in Caddo Parish. They run both directions from the I-49 interchange to the parish line, and from I-49 to Jewella Avenue. The same plan recommends about $10.6 million in safety work on a 5.8-mile stretch of I-20 from the Jewella Avenue interchange to the parish line. That work includes better shoulders, rumble strips, delineator posts, barriers and guardrails, rated a high priority with a long-term time frame. [Louisiana's 2024 State Freight Plan](https://dotd.la.gov/media/qquhsdst/2024-louisiana-state-freight-plan.pdf) ranks I-20 through Shreveport, from Monkhouse Drive across the Red River, among the state's highest-need freight corridors. Safety is one of the needs it names. The Inner Loop (LA 3132) carries about 6,800 trucks a day on average, one of the ten highest truck volumes of any Louisiana route, according to DOTD's 2024 State Freight Plan. ### Fatal truck crashes on I-20 and I-49 in 2026 The counts above end in [2024, but local news](https://www.ksla.com/2026/09/18/two-dead-after-major-double-18-wheeler-crash-shuts-down-i-20-e-pines-road/) reported two 2026 crashes on those same interstates, one on I-20 and one on I-49. In September 2026, an 18-wheeler crossed the I-20 median in west Shreveport, struck a second truck and overturned. Two people died, according to Shreveport police as reported by KSLA and KTAL. In May 2026, [two 18-wheelers crashed on southbound I-49](/resources/truck-accidents/types/frequently-asked-questions-on-18-wheeler-accidents-on-i-49/) at the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive interchange in Shreveport. One person died, according to [Shreveport police as reported by KSLA and KTBS](https://www.ksla.com/2026/05/22/multi-vehicle-wreck-shuts-down-i-49-leaves-one-dead/). Neither report assigns fault, and neither does this page. ## The agencies that investigate truck crashes in Caddo Parish Police agencies are the prime source of the information these reports draw on. Crash reports written at the scene by Louisiana State Police, parish sheriff's deputies or city police are stored in statewide databases for analysis of the causes of wrecks, fatalities and injuries. Louisiana requires that a collision be reported to the relevant agency when there is injury or loss of life. [The Shreveport Police](https://www.shreveportla.gov/DocumentCenter/View/30516/04212026fatal) Department has a Crash Investigation Unit for serious and fatal crashes. Its officers have [investigated fatal crashes](/resources/truck-accidents/process/truck-accident-investigation/) on I-20, I-49, I-220 and LA 3132 inside the city, including crashes involving 18-wheelers. ### Louisiana State Police's Motor Carrier Safety Unit [Louisiana State Police's](https://lsp.org/about/leadershipsections/patrol/transportation-safety-services/) Motor Carrier Safety Unit, which enforces federal truck safety rules, has its Region 3 office in Shreveport. That office covers State Police Troops E, F and G, an area that includes Caddo Parish. [Under Louisiana's commercial vehicle safety plan](https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/FY%2025%20Louisiana%20CVSP%20-%20Final.pdf), a truck crash that causes serious injury or death brings in the agency's certified commercial vehicle inspectors. The plan also says State Police focuses its carrier investigations on high-risk trucking companies. That includes companies flagged by a complaint or a request after a fatal crash. ## The deadline to file a Caddo Parish truck crash claim None of this sets the deadline to file. For a crash on or after July 1, 2024, the prescriptive period, [Louisiana's filing deadline](/resources/laws-and-legislation/statute-of-limitations/), is two years from the injury. For a crash before July 1, 2024, the old one-year deadline applies, and it covers every crash in the 2020 to 2023 counts above. The rest of the claim law is on the [Shreveport truck accident lawyers](/louisiana/truck-accident-lawyer/shreveport/) page: who may file, how a [death or a child's claim changes the deadline](/resources/wrongful-death/laws/louisiana-prescriptive-period-changes-survival-wrongful-death/), and what filing in the right court does. {/* Sources: 1. PD-0036 -- "In NLCOG's 2025 congestion study, medium and heavy trucks made up 21% of peak-period traffic on eastbound I-20 between I-49 and the Traffic Street exit in downtown Shreveport, the highest truck share of the ten congested segments NLCOG ranked (July 2022 to July 2023 data)." https://www.nlcog.org/pdfs/library/CMP/2025_Update/NLCOG_2025CMP_FINAL_12192025.pdf 2. PD-0086 -- "The Inner Loop (LA 3132) carries an average of about 6,800 trucks a day, one of the ten highest truck volumes of any route in Louisiana, according to DOTD's 2024 State Freight Plan." https://dotd.la.gov/media/qquhsdst/2024-louisiana-state-freight-plan.pdf 3. PD-0085 -- "Louisiana's 2024 State Freight Plan ranks I-20 through Shreveport, from Monkhouse Drive across the Red River, among the state's highest-need freight corridors, with safety one of its high needs." https://dotd.la.gov/media/qquhsdst/2024-louisiana-state-freight-plan.pdf 4. PD-0081 -- "About one in five crashes involving a large truck or bus in Caddo Parish from 2020 through 2024 happened on I-20, according to FMCSA crash records." https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip 5. PD-0070 -- "From 2020 through 2024, 19 fatal crashes in Caddo Parish involved a large truck, and 22 people died in them, according to NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System." https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/ 6. PD-0071 -- "From 2020 through 2024, at least 11 fatal crashes involving a large truck happened inside Shreveport city limits, killing 14 people, according to NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System." https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/ 7. PD-0073 -- "In 2024, six people died in five Caddo Parish crashes involving a large truck, according to NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System." https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/FARS/ 8. PD-0026 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 214 crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle, five of them fatal and 116 with injuries, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 9. PD-0080 -- "Federal records list 207 crashes involving a large truck or bus in Caddo Parish in 2024, in which six people were killed and 153 were injured, according to FMCSA's crash file." https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip 10. PD-0007 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 5 fatal crashes involving a commercial vehicle, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 11. PD-0008 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 116 injury crashes involving a commercial vehicle, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 12. PD-0024 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 93 property-damage-only crashes involving a commercial vehicle, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 13. PD-1620 -- "Over 2020 through 2024, Caddo Parish had 17 of Louisiana's 482 fatal crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle, about 3.5%, while it had about 4.8% of the state's licensed drivers; in 2024 alone, 13.16% of Caddo's fatal crashes involved a commercial vehicle, above the statewide 10.76%." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 14. PD-1619 -- "From 2020 through 2024, Louisiana had 482 fatal crashes involving a commercial motor vehicle, according to LSU's Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report; 76 of them were in 2024." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 15. PD-0002 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 38 fatal crashes, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 16. PD-0005 -- "In 2024, Caddo Parish recorded 42 people killed, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 17. PD-0075 -- "In 2024, commercial vehicles were involved in 5 of Caddo Parish's 38 fatal crashes, about 13%, according to the Louisiana Traffic Records Summary Report." https://www.lahighwaysafety.org/media/nr3byby1/2024_louisiana_traffic_records_summary_report.pdf 18. PD-0153 -- "In 2023, Caddo, Ouachita and Bossier parishes together accounted for 11.83% of all commercial vehicle crashes in Louisiana, according to the state's commercial vehicle safety plan. In the same plan, State Police lists both I-20 and I-49 among Louisiana's high-crash corridors." https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/FY%2025%20Louisiana%20CVSP%20-%20Final.pdf 19. PD-0072 -- "Of the 19 fatal large-truck crashes in Caddo Parish from 2020 through 2024, eight were on I-20 and three on I-49, according to federal fatal-crash records." https://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/CrashStatistics/Documents/StateCrashRecord/260828/LA_crash_260828.zip 20. PD-0052 -- "Several stretches of I-20 in Caddo Parish, including both directions between the I-49 interchange and the parish line and the stretch from I-49 to Jewella Avenue, are on the parish's high-injury network in the 2025 Northwest Louisiana regional safety action plan, which maps where fatal and serious injury crashes concentrated from 2018 to 2022." https://nlcog.org/pdfs/library/SS4A/20250217_NLCOG%20SS4A%20Plan%20Reduced%20Size.pdf 21. PD-0053 -- "The 2025 Northwest Louisiana regional safety action plan recommends about $10.6 million in safety work on a 5.8-mile stretch of I-20 in Caddo Parish from the Jewella Avenue interchange to the parish line, including better shoulders, rumble strips, delineators, barriers and guardrails, and rates it a high priority with a long-term time frame." https://nlcog.org/pdfs/library/SS4A/20250217_NLCOG%20SS4A%20Plan%20Reduced%20Size.pdf 22. PD-0055 -- "In September 2026, an 18-wheeler crossed the median of I-20 in west Shreveport, struck a second truck and overturned, and two people died, according to Shreveport police as reported by KSLA and KTAL." https://www.ksla.com/2026/09/18/two-dead-after-major-double-18-wheeler-crash-shuts-down-i-20-e-pines-road/ 23. PD-0056 -- "In May 2026, a crash between two 18-wheelers on southbound I-49 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive interchange in Shreveport killed one person, according to Shreveport police as reported by KSLA and KTBS." https://www.ksla.com/2026/05/22/multi-vehicle-wreck-shuts-down-i-49-leaves-one-dead/ 24. La. R.S. 32:398 -- "(1) Immediately give notice of the crash to the local police department if the crash occurs within an incorporated city or town or, if the crash occurs outside of an incorporated city or town, to the nearest sheriff's office or state police station." https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=88361 25. PD-0142 -- "The Shreveport Police Department has a Crash Investigation Unit for serious and fatal crashes. Shreveport police have investigated fatal crashes on I-20, I-49, I-220 and LA 3132 inside the city, including crashes involving 18-wheelers." https://www.shreveportla.gov/DocumentCenter/View/30516/04212026fatal 26. PD-0151 -- "Louisiana State Police's Motor Carrier Safety Unit, which enforces federal truck safety rules, has its Region 3 office in Shreveport. That office covers State Police Troops E, F and G, an area that includes Caddo Parish." https://lsp.org/about/leadershipsections/patrol/transportation-safety-services/ 27. PD-0152 -- "According to Louisiana's commercial vehicle safety plan, when a truck crash causes serious injury or death, State Police troops ask the agency's specially certified commercial vehicle inspectors to help. The plan also says State Police focuses its carrier investigations on high-risk trucking companies, including those flagged by a complaint or request after a fatal crash." https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/2026-03/FY%2025%20Louisiana%20CVSP%20-%20Final.pdf 28. La. C.C. art. 3493.1 -- "Delictual actions are subject to a liberative prescription of two years. This prescription commences to run from the day that injury or damage is sustained. It does not run against minors or interdicts in actions involving permanent disability and brought pursuant to the Louisiana Products Liability Act or state law governing product liability actions in effect at the time of the injury or damage. Acts 2024, No. 423, §1, eff. July 1, 2024." https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=1386443 29. La. C.C. art. 3493.1 -- "La. C.C. art. 3492 was repealed by La. Acts 2024, No. 423, § 2, effective July 1, 2024. Because the tort claims in this case arose prior to this date, former La. C.C. art. 3492, providing a one-year prescriptive period, applies in this matter. La. C.C. arts. 3493.1 currently provides a two-year prescriptive period for delictual actions." https://law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/fifth-circuit-court-of-appeal/2025/24-c-536.html */}