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Fatal crashes on I-20 in Texas

Every fatal crash NHTSA coded to Interstate 20, also written as Lyndon B Johnson Fwy, Ronald Reagan Memorial, Lbj Fwy, in Texas, 2020 to 2024, with the year, the county and what the record says about each. Fatal crashes only, and a count, not a rate: the federal record has no traffic volume for a road.

I-20 in Texas2020 to 2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

474fatal crashes over five years · 523 deaths

Over 2020 to 2024, NHTSA recorded 474 fatal crashes on I-20 in Texas, in which 523 people died. That is 2% of the 19,209 fatal crashes recorded in Texas in those years, about 95 a year. 67 of the 474 were coded to a ramp, frontage or service road of I-20 rather than the main lanes. In 2024, the latest year, 86 were recorded.

No rate. A county has residents and a state has vehicle-miles, so each gets a rate. A road has neither in any federal file: FHWA publishes no traffic volume per route, and FARS carries no length. The count says how many fatal crashes were coded to this road, not how dangerous a mile of it is or how it compares with another road.

Counted: FARS crashes 2020 to 2024 in Texas whose TWAY_ID or TWAY_ID2 begins I-20, with or without a local name (Lyndon B Johnson Fwy, Ronald Reagan Memorial, Lbj Fwy)
Share: 474 ÷ 19,209 fatal crashes in Texas = 2%

Every year, 2020 to 2024

Year	Fatal crashes on I-20	Deaths	Fatal crashes in Texas	Share
2020	87	96	3,522	2%
2021	121	133	4,070	3%
2022	102	113	3,966	3%
2023	78	89	3,877	2%
2024	86	92	3,774	2%

2024 is NHTSA’s Annual Report File and will be revised when the final file replaces it.

Where on I-20: by county, 2020 to 2024

The counties the crashes were coded to, alphabetical. A road’s count in a county depends on how many miles of it run there and how busy they are; the page does not rank the counties. Each name opens the county page with its own rate.

What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024

Every figure is a count of the 474 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to I-20 in Texas over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road type	Crashes	Share
Interstate	401	85%
Other freeway or expressway	0	0%
Other principal arterial	3	1%
Minor arterial	3	1%
Major collector	65	14%
Minor collector	0	0%
Local road	2	0%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%
Rural	211	45%
Urban	263	55%

Time of day	Crashes	Share
Midnight to 5:59 am	152	32%
6 am to 11:59 am	86	18%
Noon to 5:59 pm	102	22%
6 pm to 11:59 pm	134	28%
Hour unknown	0	0%

Light	Crashes	Share
Daylight	177	37%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)	194	41%
Dark, lighted	86	18%
Dawn or dusk	17	4%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Day of week	Crashes	Share
Sunday	84	18%
Monday	68	14%
Tuesday	66	14%
Wednesday	64	14%
Thursday	55	12%
Friday	66	14%
Saturday	71	15%

Month	Crashes	Share
January	37	8%
February	54	11%
March	47	10%
April	35	7%
May	34	7%
June	44	9%
July	39	8%
August	32	7%
September	40	8%
October	43	9%
November	41	9%
December	28	6%

Weather	Crashes	Share
Clear	374	79%
Cloudy	55	12%
Rain	38	8%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3	1%
Fog, smog or smoke	2	0%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other	2	0%
Unknown or not reported	0	0%

Involving	Crashes	Share
A pedestrian	76	16%
A bicyclist or other cyclist	1	0%
A speeding-related vehicle	177	37%
A driver police reported as drinking	84	18%
A large truck (over 10,000 lb)	174	37%
A motorcycle	41	9%
A hit-and-run vehicle	24	5%
A teen driver (15 to 19)	34	7%

Road type is FARS FUNC_SYS for the crash, which can differ from the route’s class where a crash was coded on a frontage road or ramp; speeding is any vehicle coded SPEEDREL 2 to 5; drinking is any driver coded DRINKING = 1 (police-reported, not a blood-alcohol test).

How this is counted

The road is the designation FARS wrote. Each crash in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System names the trafficway it was on (TWAY_ID) and, at an intersection, a second one (TWAY_ID2). NHTSA standardises the route designation (I-45, US-59, SR-6) and the police often add a local name after it (I-45/NORTH FWY) or a ramp or frontage word. The page counts every crash whose designation is I-20, once, whatever followed it. Nothing else is matched: a crash coded only to a local street name is not here even if that street is this road.
Same number, another state, another road. I-20 in Texas is counted within Texas only. Where the route continues into a neighbouring state it has its own page there, and a State Route number means nothing outside its state.
Only roads with ten or more fatal crashes over 2020 to 2024 have a page. Fewer is too few to say anything, and the county page already lists the most-named roads in each county as the police wrote them.
No rate, no rank. The Texas page lists every numbered road in route order with its count and nothing else. Roads with more lanes, more miles or more traffic record more fatal crashes; the record cannot separate those from the road’s design.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Data snapshot built 2026-10-30.

Other roads in Texas

I-2 38
I-10 631
I-14 39
I-27 44
I-30 274
I-35 670
I-35E 76
I-35W 38
I-37 79
I-40 68
I-45 485
I-69 188
I-69E 10
I-410 113
I-610 89
I-635 99
I-820 76
SR-1 25
SR-3 20
SR-5 10
SR-6 150
SR-7 36
SR-8 89
SR-11 17
SR-12 131
SR-13 24
SR-16 90
SR-18 11
SR-19 56
SR-20 43

In route order, first thirty; the full list is on the Texas page.