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Connecticut fatal crashes in 1986

FARS records 455 deaths in 429 fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1986.

In 1985 it records 448 deaths in 421 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Connecticut rose by 1.6% from 1985 to 1986. In the United States they rose by 5.2%.

In 1986, a driver was recorded as drinking in 48.5% of fatal crashes in Connecticut and 42.5% 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 .

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1986 beside 1985

Table 1.Connecticut in 1986, in 1985 and the United States in 1986
FigureConnecticut, 1986Connecticut, 1985United States, 1986
Deaths45544846,087
Fatal crashes42942141,090
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking20819517,478

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 1986

Table 2.Connecticut: counties with a fatal crash in 1986, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Fairfield County9187
Hartford County9589
Litchfield County2626
Middlesex County3028
New Haven County121116
New London County4643
Tolland County2923
Windham County1717

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1986 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, 1986
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.11526.9%
6 a.m. to noon5512.9%
Noon to 6 p.m.10123.7%
6 p.m. to midnight15636.5%
Table 4.Connecticut: fatal crashes by weekday, 1986
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday6314.7%
Monday5111.9%
Tuesday5212.1%
Wednesday5212.1%
Thursday4610.7%
Friday7818.2%
Saturday8720.3%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Connecticut fatal crashes in 1986. https://fatalroads.com/state/connecticut/1986/. 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 1986. 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 1986 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 1986 was in Connecticut?

Connecticut had 455 of the 46,087 deaths in the United States in 1986. That is 1.0 percent.

In how many counties of Connecticut did FARS record a fatal crash in 1986?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 8 counties of Connecticut in 1986.

How many fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1986 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 208 of 429 fatal crashes in 1986.