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Georgia fatal crashes in 2001

FARS records 1,647 deaths in 1,471 fatal crashes in Georgia in 2001.

In 2000 it records 1,541 deaths in 1,380 fatal crashes.

In 2001 the rate is 19.7 deaths for each 100,000 residents in Georgia and 14.8 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2001, Georgia was number 14 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in Georgia rose by 6.9% from 2000 to 2001. In the United States they rose by 0.6%.

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

2001 beside 2000

Table 1.Georgia in 2001, in 2000 and the United States in 2001
FigureGeorgia, 2001Georgia, 2000United States, 2001
Deaths1,6471,54142,196
Fatal crashes1,4711,38037,862
Deaths for each 100,000 residents19.718.714.8
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/an/an/a

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 2001

Table 2.Georgia: counties with a fatal crash in 2001, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Appling County98
Atkinson County66
Bacon County77
Baker County33
Baldwin County66
Banks County77
Barrow County87
Bartow County2120
Ben Hill County44
Berrien County55
Bibb County3230
Brantley County1010
Brooks County88
Bryan County1211
Bulloch County108
Burke County87
Butts County98
Camden County1110
Candler County31 or 2
Carroll County2623
Catoosa County55
Charlton County31 or 2
Chatham County3633
Chattahoochee County1 or 21 or 2
Chattooga County55
Cherokee County2221
Clarke County1614
Clayton County3531
Clinch County1 or 21 or 2
Cobb County5853
Coffee County87
Colquitt County87
Columbia County1311
Cook County96
Coweta County1212
Crawford County33
Crisp County1410
Dade County66
Dawson County106
Decatur County1110
DeKalb County9485
Dodge County88
Dooly County96
Dougherty County97
Douglas County1714
Early County1 or 21 or 2
Effingham County75
Elbert County55
Emanuel County109
Evans County1 or 21 or 2
Fannin County77
Fayette County1210
Floyd County1110
Forsyth County1918
Franklin County139
Fulton County11497
Gilmer County109
Glynn County1613
Gordon County1817
Grady County106
Greene County108
Gwinnett County7169
Habersham County77
Hall County3231
Hancock County77
Haralson County55
Harris County66
Hart County77
Heard County1 or 21 or 2
Henry County1616
Houston County2323
Irwin County66
Jackson County2016
Jasper County55
Jeff Davis County74
Jefferson County77
Jenkins County33
Jones County65
Lamar County31 or 2
Lanier County43
Laurens County1512
Lee County44
Liberty County44
Lincoln County1 or 21 or 2
Long County1 or 21 or 2
Lowndes County2522
Lumpkin County76
Macon County44
Madison County55
Marion County54
McDuffie County44
McIntosh County108
Meriwether County66
Mitchell County77
Monroe County1211
Montgomery County44
Morgan County99
Murray County1211
Muscogee County2623
Newton County1010
Oconee County55
Oglethorpe County44
Paulding County1412
Peach County31 or 2
Pickens County1414
Pierce County65
Pike County1 or 21 or 2
Polk County1211
Pulaski County1 or 21 or 2
Putnam County98
Quitman County1 or 21 or 2
Rabun County98
Randolph County1 or 21 or 2
Richmond County4237
Rockdale County108
Screven County33
Seminole County64
Spalding County1111
Stephens County77
Stewart County55
Sumter County43
Talbot County1 or 21 or 2
Tattnall County88
Taylor County1 or 21 or 2
Telfair County1 or 21 or 2
Terrell County43
Thomas County77
Tift County1612
Toombs County98
Towns County1 or 21 or 2
Treutlen County33
Troup County1814
Turner County116
Twiggs County119
Union County97
Walker County87
Walton County1010
Ware County77
Warren County1 or 21 or 2
Washington County109
Wayne County1110
Wheeler County43
White County43
Whitfield County1313
Wilcox County31 or 2
Wilkes County31 or 2
Wilkinson County33
Worth County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2001 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Georgia: fatal crashes by time of day, 2001
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.24616.9%
6 a.m. to noon32822.6%
Noon to 6 p.m.45531.3%
6 p.m. to midnight42529.2%
Table 4.Georgia: fatal crashes by weekday, 2001
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday21814.8%
Monday18512.6%
Tuesday19313.1%
Wednesday20013.6%
Thursday20814.1%
Friday22015.0%
Saturday24716.8%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Georgia fatal crashes in 2001. https://fatalroads.com/state/georgia/2001/. 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 2001. 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 2001 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 2001 was in Georgia?

Georgia had 1,647 of the 42,196 deaths in the United States in 2001. That is 3.9 percent.

In how many counties of Georgia did FARS record a fatal crash in 2001?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 148 counties of Georgia in 2001.