Data
Houston truck crash statistics: Harris County commercial vehicle crashes, 2015-2025
5,913 commercial vehicle crashes and 43 deaths in Harris County in 2025, with every year back to 2015 and a county-by-county comparison.
Trucking & FreightTruck crash data, carrier rules and Port Houston freight
Houston is a freight city. Port Houston handled a record 4.3 million TEUs of containers in 2025, and its container terminals served about 2.5 million trucks.
This section covers commercial trucks in Greater Houston: how often they crash and with what result, the federal and Texas rules drivers and carriers operate under, and the freight that puts them on the road.
Texas leads the country in deaths in crashes involving large trucks. NHTSA counted 720 such deaths in Texas in 2024, more than any other state; California was next with 391.1 Harris County alone recorded 5,913 crashes involving commercial vehicles in 2025.2
Every statistic here links to the source document it came from. Rules are cited to the current Code of Federal Regulations and the Texas Administrative Code.
Sources
Figures were read from the documents below and checked by Texas Mobility Outlook. Links go to the original publisher. Accessed October 2026 unless noted.
- NHTSA National Center for Statistics and Analysis, Traffic Safety Facts, Large Trucks: 2024 Data (DOT HS 813 816), June 2026.
- TxDOT, Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Involved Crashes and Injuries by County, 2025. Data as of April 7, 2026. A CMV crash is one in which the investigating officer marked the CMV indicator on the CR-3.