Silver Creek, SD truck route planning & crash data
Plan safer truck routes in Silver Creek: commercial truck and garbage truck crashes in Silver Creek and Sanborn County, dangerous roads, seasonality and route safety data for fleets. Patterns use Sanborn County numbers.
Where fatal truck crashes happened
Risk scorecard
Key findings
Snapshot
Crashes by month
Garbage trucks vs all trucks
1 of 19 truck crashes since 2015.
Deadliest roads
No fatal large-truck crashes with a road name recorded here since 2015.
What stands out in Sanborn County: 19 truck crashes on record for Sanborn County since 2015.
Overview
Since 2015, 19 crashes involving commercial trucks have been reported in Sanborn County. They injured 2 people and killed 3.
In complete reporting years that works out to about one truck crash every 211 days.
Only 0 truck crashes were reported in Silver Creek since 2015; patterns below come from Sanborn County as a whole.
When crashes happen
Sanborn 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 Silver Creek since 2015.
Garbage & waste trucks
Garbage and refuse trucks were involved in 1 crash, 5.3% of the total, against 1.6% across South Dakota.
Route planning tips for Silver Creek fleets
- Check your own stops for crash hotspots and low bridges with the free Route Planner.
About the data
Sources: the FMCSA crash file for all reported truck crashes and NHTSA FARS for fatal crashes with a large truck. Every statement here comes straight from those numbers.
Truck crashes by year: all trucks vs garbage trucks
Seasonality: when trucks crash in Sanborn 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 (Sanborn County) |
|---|---|
| Sd Hwy 37 | 8 |
| Sd Hwy 34 | 7 |
| Sd Hwy 224 | 2 |
Silver Creek at a glance
| Population | 84 |
| Land area | 35.9 sq mi |
| Density | 2 per sq mi |
| Median household income (ZIP 57385) | $70,404 |
| Median home value (ZIP 57385) | $128,603 |
Historical data: truck crashes in Sanborn 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 | 2 | — | 0.0 |
| 2000s | 1 | -33% | 0.0 |
| 2010s | 2 | +50% | 0.2 |
| 2020s | 2 | +33% | 0.2 |
From the 1990s to the 2020s, yearly reported truck crashes went from 2 to 2. Some of the change may reflect how crashes were reported. Fatal crashes involving a large truck averaged 0.2 a year in 2016–19 and 0.2 a year in 2020–24.
Nearby places
Questions fleets ask about Silver Creek
How common are truck crashes in Silver Creek?
Since 2015, 19 crashes involving commercial trucks were reported in Sanborn County (2 injured, 3 killed).
Are garbage truck crashes common in Silver Creek?
Since 2015, Sanborn County has reported 1 garbage-truck crash, or 5.3% of its truck crashes.
How can I plan a safer truck route in Silver Creek?
Paste your stops into the free CurbWaste Route Planner: it scores your route against fatal-crash locations, suggests safer alternatives and flags low bridges.
2026 is a partial year. Updated October 2026.