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Connecticut fatal crashes in 1996

FARS records 310 deaths in 296 fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1996.

In 1995 it records 317 deaths in 287 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Connecticut fell by 2.2% from 1995 to 1996. In the United States they rose by 0.6%.

In 1996, a driver was recorded as drinking in 39.2% of fatal crashes in Connecticut and 32.0% 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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1996 beside 1995

Table 1.Connecticut in 1996, in 1995 and the United States in 1996
FigureConnecticut, 1996Connecticut, 1995United States, 1996
Deaths31031742,065
Fatal crashes29628737,494
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking11611111,999

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 1996

Table 2.Connecticut: counties with a fatal crash in 1996, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Fairfield County6865
Hartford County7167
Litchfield County1818
Middlesex County1515
New Haven County6562
New London County3836
Tolland County1716
Windham County1817

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1996 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, 1996
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.6622.3%
6 a.m. to noon4816.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.8629.1%
6 p.m. to midnight9632.4%
Table 4.Connecticut: fatal crashes by weekday, 1996
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday4916.6%
Monday3712.5%
Tuesday3913.2%
Wednesday3010.1%
Thursday3812.8%
Friday5217.6%
Saturday5117.2%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Connecticut fatal crashes in 1996. https://fatalroads.com/state/connecticut/1996/. 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 1996. 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 1996 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 1996 was in Connecticut?

Connecticut had 310 of the 42,065 deaths in the United States in 1996. That is 0.7 percent.

In how many counties of Connecticut did FARS record a fatal crash in 1996?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 8 counties of Connecticut in 1996.

How many fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1996 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 116 of 296 fatal crashes in 1996.