FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · Tennessee

Crash Indicator in Tennessee

• 5,986Reportable crashes
• 23,282Registered carriers in the state
• 167Fatal crashes in the state

Reportable crashes -- a fatality, an injury or a tow-away -- as recorded by the state that investigated them. Tennessee carries 5,986 reportable crashes in this category, out of 255,582 recorded nationally, which places it 14 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.023 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 12,172
• 2 to 5 power units 7,102
• 6 to 20 power units 2,082
• 21 to 100 power units 640
• 101 to 1,000 power units 144
• 1,000 or more power units 30

Other categories recorded in Tennessee

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 561
• Driver Fitness 7,471
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 532
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 13,366
• Unsafe Driving 20,057
• Vehicle Maintenance 76,167

Crash Indicator across every jurisdiction → Every category in Tennessee →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. The rank is taken over the jurisdictions this desk publishes, and the national figure beside it is the register’s own total for the category.