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Connecticut fatal crashes in 1981

FARS records 518 deaths in 480 fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1981.

In 1980 it records 575 deaths in 520 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Connecticut fell by 9.9% from 1980 to 1981. In the United States they fell by 3.5%.

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 .

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1981 beside 1980

Table 1.Connecticut in 1981, in 1980 and the United States in 1981
FigureConnecticut, 1981Connecticut, 1980United States, 1981
Deaths51857549,301
Fatal crashes48052044,000
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/a263n/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 1981

Table 2.Connecticut: counties with a fatal crash in 1981, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Fairfield County123110
Hartford County123117
Litchfield County4238
Middlesex County3434
New Haven County10192
New London County5450
Tolland County2726
Windham County1413

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1981 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Connecticut: fatal crashes by time of day, 1981
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.16734.8%
6 a.m. to noon6413.3%
Noon to 6 p.m.8617.9%
6 p.m. to midnight16334.0%
Table 4.Connecticut: fatal crashes by weekday, 1981
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday8016.7%
Monday459.4%
Tuesday5411.3%
Wednesday459.4%
Thursday5912.3%
Friday9219.2%
Saturday10521.9%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Connecticut fatal crashes in 1981. https://fatalroads.com/state/connecticut/1981/. 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 1981. 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 .

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Questions

Which file does the 1981 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 1981 was in Connecticut?

Connecticut had 518 of the 49,301 deaths in the United States in 1981. That is 1.1 percent.

In how many counties of Connecticut did FARS record a fatal crash in 1981?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 8 counties of Connecticut in 1981.