Elvira, SD truck route planning & crash data
Plan safer truck routes in Elvira: commercial truck and garbage truck crashes in Elvira and Buffalo County, dangerous roads, seasonality and route safety data for fleets. Patterns use Buffalo County numbers.
Where fatal truck crashes happened
Risk scorecard
Key findings
Snapshot
Crashes by month
Garbage trucks vs all trucks
0 of 19 truck crashes since 2015.
Deadliest roads
No fatal large-truck crashes with a road name recorded here since 2015.
Buffalo County at a glance: 19 reported truck crashes in Buffalo County since 2015.
Overview
Since 2015, 19 crashes involving commercial trucks have been reported in Buffalo County. They injured 1 people and killed 1.
In complete reporting years that works out to about one truck crash every 268 days.
Elvira had 0 reported truck crashes since 2015, too few for reliable patterns, so the charts and findings on this page use Buffalo County numbers.
When crashes happen
Buffalo County has too few reported truck crashes for a monthly pattern.
Where crashes happen
No fatal crash involving a large truck has a recorded location within 10 miles of Elvira since 2015.
Garbage & waste trucks
No crashes involving garbage or refuse trucks have been reported in Buffalo County since 2015.
Route planning tips for Elvira fleets
- Paste your stops into the free Route Planner to see the risk score, safer alternatives and low bridges.
About the data
Crash counts come from the FMCSA crash file (police-reported crashes involving trucks over 10,000 lb); fatal-crash locations come from NHTSA FARS. Text on this page states only what these numbers show.
Truck crashes by year: all trucks vs garbage trucks
Seasonality: when trucks crash in Buffalo County
Most dangerous roads for trucks
No fatal crashes involving a large truck with a road name were recorded within 10 miles since 2015.
Roads named most in all truck crash reports
| Road | Truck crashes since 2015 (Buffalo County) |
|---|---|
| Sd Hwy 34 | 12 |
| Sd Hwy 45 | 6 |
| Sd Hwy 50 | 1 |
Elvira at a glance
| Population | 41 |
| Land area | 47.7 sq mi |
| Density | 1 per sq mi |
Historical data: truck crashes in Buffalo County since the 1990s
Combines the FMCSA crash file (all reported truck crashes, real coverage from about 1990) with NHTSA FARS (fatal crashes involving a large truck, 1982–2024).
| Decade | Truck crashes / yr | Change | Fatal crashes / yr (FARS) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 1 | — | 0.1 |
| 2000s | 0 | -70% | 0.0 |
| 2010s | 1 | +367% | 0.0 |
| 2020s | 1 | -29% | 0.2 |
In the 1990s about 1 truck crash a year were reported; in the 2020s, about 1. Reporting coverage also changed between these periods. Fatal crashes involving a large truck averaged 0.0 a year in 2016–19 and 0.2 a year in 2020–24.
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Questions fleets ask about Elvira
How many truck crashes happen in Elvira?
19 truck crashes have been reported in Buffalo County since 2015, with 1 deaths and 1 injuries.
Are garbage truck crashes common in Elvira?
Garbage trucks were involved in 0 reported crashes in Buffalo County since 2015 (0.0% of truck crashes).
What is the best way to plan truck routes in Elvira?
The free Route Planner takes your stops and returns a route risk score, safer alternatives and low-bridge warnings.
2026 is a partial year. Updated October 2026.