Philip, SD truck route planning & crash data
Plan safer truck routes in Philip: commercial truck and garbage truck crashes in Philip and Haakon County, dangerous roads, seasonality and route safety data for fleets. Patterns use Haakon County numbers.
Where fatal truck crashes happened
Risk scorecard
Key findings
Snapshot
Crashes by month
Garbage trucks vs all trucks
0 of 14 truck crashes since 2015.
Deadliest roads
No fatal large-truck crashes with a road name recorded here since 2015.
What stands out in Haakon County: 14 truck crashes reported in Haakon County since 2015.
Overview
Police reported 14 crashes involving commercial trucks in Haakon County since 2015: 3 people were injured and 2 were killed.
That averages about one truck crash every 287 days in fully reported years.
Only 1 truck crash was reported in Philip since 2015; patterns below come from Haakon County as a whole.
When crashes happen
Haakon County has too few reported truck crashes for a monthly pattern.
Where crashes happen
NHTSA lists no located fatal large-truck crashes within 10 miles of Philip since 2015.
Garbage & waste trucks
No crashes involving garbage or refuse trucks have been reported in Haakon County since 2015.
Route planning tips for Philip fleets
- Check your own stops for crash hotspots and low bridges with the free Route Planner.
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 Haakon 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 (Haakon County) |
|---|---|
| Sd Hwy 34 | 8 |
| Sd Hwy 73 | 2 |
| US-14 | 2 |
| Northwestern Ave | 1 |
| Sd Hwy 63 | 1 |
Philip at a glance
| Population | 752 |
| Land area | 0.6 sq mi |
| Density | 1,209 per sq mi |
| Median household income (ZIP 57567) | $59,410 |
| Median home value (ZIP 57567) | $221,237 |
Historical data: truck crashes in Haakon 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 | — | 0.0 |
| 2000s | 1 | -20% | 0.1 |
| 2010s | 1 | +25% | 0.1 |
| 2020s | 1 | +33% | 0.2 |
Reported truck crashes averaged 1 a year in the 1990s and 1 a year in the 2020s. Reporting practices changed over time, so part of any change can come from reporting. NHTSA counts 0.0 fatal large-truck crashes a year in 2016–19 and 0.2 a year in 2020–24.
Nearby places
Questions fleets ask about Philip
How common are truck crashes in Philip?
Haakon County has had 14 reported truck crashes since 2015, injuring 3 people and killing 2.
Are garbage truck crashes common in Philip?
0 crashes involving garbage or refuse trucks have been reported in Haakon County since 2015, 0.0% of all truck crashes.
What is the best way to plan truck routes in Philip?
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.