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Alabama fatal crashes in 1999

FARS records 1,138 deaths in 992 fatal crashes in Alabama in 1999.

In 1998 it records 1,071 deaths in 958 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Alabama rose by 6.3% from 1998 to 1999. In the United States they rose by 0.5%.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.

The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on .

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Release dates

1999 beside 1998

Table 1.Alabama in 1999, in 1998 and the United States in 1999
FigureAlabama, 1999Alabama, 1998United States, 1999
Deaths1,1381,07141,717
Fatal crashes99295837,140
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/a265n/a

Note: this site has no rate for the years before 2000.

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA's definitions

NHTSA says that its count of drinking drivers is unreliable for 1977, 1981 and 1999 to 2007, because it was derived in a wrong way. This site gives no count for these years.

For the years before 2015 the count is from the FARS element DRUNK_DR. It counts a blood alcohol concentration of .01 g/dL or more. From 2015 the count is from DR_DRINK and counts .001 g/dL or more.

Counties in 1999

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1999 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Alabama: fatal crashes by time of day, 1999
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.18118.2%
6 a.m. to noon19419.6%
Noon to 6 p.m.31131.4%
6 p.m. to midnight30630.8%
Table 4.Alabama: fatal crashes by weekday, 1999
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday16016.1%
Monday11111.2%
Tuesday11511.6%
Wednesday12012.1%
Thursday12512.6%
Friday16616.7%
Saturday19519.7%

Note: the tables have the fatal crashes with a known hour or weekday.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Alabama fatal crashes in 1999. https://fatalroads.com/state/alabama/1999/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

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Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 1999. This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Data to .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 1999 page use?

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 1999 was in Alabama?

Alabama had 1,138 of the 41,717 deaths in the United States in 1999. That is 2.7 percent.

In how many counties of Alabama did FARS record a fatal crash in 1999?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 67 counties of Alabama in 1999.