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Connecticut fatal crashes in 1998

FARS records 329 deaths in 306 fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1998.

In 1997 it records 339 deaths in 315 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Connecticut fell by 2.9% from 1997 to 1998. In the United States they fell by 1.2%.

In 1998, a driver was recorded as drinking in 36.6% of fatal crashes in Connecticut and 30.0% 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 .

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

1998 beside 1997

Table 1.Connecticut in 1998, in 1997 and the United States in 1998
FigureConnecticut, 1998Connecticut, 1997United States, 1998
Deaths32933941,501
Fatal crashes30631537,107
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking11211411,136

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 1998

Table 2.Connecticut: counties with a fatal crash in 1998, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Fairfield County6763
Hartford County6665
Litchfield County3126
Middlesex County2120
New Haven County7569
New London County2624
Tolland County2321
Windham County2018

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1998 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, 1998
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.7624.8%
6 a.m. to noon6220.3%
Noon to 6 p.m.8327.1%
6 p.m. to midnight8527.8%
Table 4.Connecticut: fatal crashes by weekday, 1998
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday5116.7%
Monday3210.5%
Tuesday4715.4%
Wednesday3511.4%
Thursday4715.4%
Friday3712.1%
Saturday5718.6%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Connecticut fatal crashes in 1998. https://fatalroads.com/state/connecticut/1998/. 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 1998. 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 1998 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 1998 was in Connecticut?

Connecticut had 329 of the 41,501 deaths in the United States in 1998. That is 0.8 percent.

In how many counties of Connecticut did FARS record a fatal crash in 1998?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 8 counties of Connecticut in 1998.

How many fatal crashes in Connecticut in 1998 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 112 of 306 fatal crashes in 1998.