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Alaska fatal crashes in 1989

FARS records 84 deaths in 79 fatal crashes in Alaska in 1989.

In 1988 it records 97 deaths in 86 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Alaska fell by 13.4% from 1988 to 1989. In the United States they fell by 3.2%.

In 1989, a driver was recorded as drinking in 45.6% of fatal crashes in Alaska and 39.5% in the United States.

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

1989 beside 1988

Table 1.Alaska in 1989, in 1988 and the United States in 1989
FigureAlaska, 1989Alaska, 1988United States, 1989
Deaths849745,582
Fatal crashes798640,741
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking364016,080

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

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 1989

Table 2.Alaska: counties with a fatal crash in 1989, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Anchorage Municipality2727
Bethel Census Area1 or 21 or 2
Chugach Census Area65
Fairbanks North Star Borough1111
Haines Borough1 or 21 or 2
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area1 or 21 or 2
Juneau City and Borough1 or 21 or 2
Kenai Peninsula Borough1512
Ketchikan Gateway Borough1 or 21 or 2
Matanuska-Susitna Borough1312
Nome Census Area1 or 21 or 2
North Slope Borough1 or 21 or 2
Northwest Arctic Borough1 or 21 or 2
Petersburg Borough1 or 21 or 2
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1989 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Alaska: fatal crashes by time of day, 1989
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2329.9%
6 a.m. to noon1418.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.2026.0%
6 p.m. to midnight2026.0%
Table 4.Alaska: fatal crashes by weekday, 1989
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1620.3%
Monday67.6%
Tuesday810.1%
Wednesday1215.2%
Thursday1012.7%
Friday1113.9%
Saturday1620.3%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Alaska fatal crashes in 1989. https://fatalroads.com/state/alaska/1989/. 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 1989. 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 1989 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 1989 was in Alaska?

Alaska had 84 of the 45,582 deaths in the United States in 1989. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of Alaska did FARS record a fatal crash in 1989?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 15 counties of Alaska in 1989.

How many fatal crashes in Alaska in 1989 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 36 of 79 fatal crashes in 1989.