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Georgia fatal crashes in 2004

FARS records 1,634 deaths in 1,463 fatal crashes in Georgia in 2004.

In 2003 it records 1,603 deaths in 1,463 fatal crashes.

In 2004 the rate is 18.6 deaths for each 100,000 residents in Georgia and 14.6 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2004, Georgia was number 17 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in Georgia rose by 1.9% from 2003 to 2004. In the United States they fell by 0.1%.

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

2004 beside 2003

Table 1.Georgia in 2004, in 2003 and the United States in 2004
FigureGeorgia, 2004Georgia, 2003United States, 2004
Deaths1,6341,60342,836
Fatal crashes1,4631,46338,444
Deaths for each 100,000 residents18.618.614.6
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 2004

Table 2.Georgia: counties with a fatal crash in 2004, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Appling County85
Atkinson County43
Bacon County1 or 21 or 2
Baker County1 or 21 or 2
Baldwin County99
Banks County66
Barrow County1110
Bartow County2524
Ben Hill County33
Berrien County76
Bibb County2120
Bleckley County1 or 21 or 2
Brantley County55
Brooks County1110
Bryan County88
Bulloch County1212
Burke County33
Butts County65
Calhoun County1 or 21 or 2
Camden County66
Candler County65
Carroll County2723
Catoosa County76
Charlton County1 or 21 or 2
Chatham County3530
Chattooga County87
Cherokee County2622
Clarke County44
Clayton County2019
Clinch County125
Cobb County6260
Coffee County87
Colquitt County1411
Columbia County77
Cook County76
Coweta County2522
Crawford County77
Crisp County1312
Dade County44
Dawson County87
Decatur County1612
DeKalb County7067
Dodge County66
Dooly County33
Dougherty County1010
Douglas County2220
Early County41 or 2
Echols County1 or 21 or 2
Effingham County44
Elbert County33
Emanuel County44
Evans County44
Fannin County109
Fayette County87
Floyd County2219
Forsyth County1210
Franklin County118
Fulton County119109
Gilmer County66
Glynn County1816
Gordon County1313
Grady County55
Greene County66
Gwinnett County8177
Habersham County1512
Hall County3028
Hancock County31 or 2
Haralson County87
Harris County33
Hart County55
Heard County53
Henry County3533
Houston County2318
Irwin County31 or 2
Jackson County2620
Jasper County1 or 21 or 2
Jeff Davis County33
Jefferson County77
Jenkins County1 or 21 or 2
Johnson County1 or 21 or 2
Jones County66
Lamar County43
Laurens County1414
Lee County88
Liberty County1312
Lincoln County1 or 21 or 2
Long County65
Lowndes County1414
Lumpkin County109
Macon County75
Madison County1110
Marion County33
McDuffie County1010
McIntosh County85
Meriwether County44
Miller County44
Mitchell County96
Monroe County88
Montgomery County1 or 21 or 2
Morgan County109
Murray County1111
Muscogee County1917
Newton County1918
Oconee County44
Oglethorpe County33
Paulding County1513
Peach County43
Pickens County75
Pierce County65
Pike County1 or 21 or 2
Polk County99
Putnam County75
Quitman County1 or 21 or 2
Rabun County33
Richmond County3027
Rockdale County98
Screven County1 or 21 or 2
Seminole County1 or 21 or 2
Spalding County1110
Stephens County66
Stewart County33
Sumter County66
Talbot County1 or 21 or 2
Taliaferro County41 or 2
Tattnall County55
Taylor County44
Telfair County55
Terrell County54
Thomas County75
Tift County1510
Toombs County53
Towns County1 or 21 or 2
Treutlen County55
Troup County2319
Turner County119
Twiggs County55
Union County33
Upson County77
Walker County1614
Walton County1817
Ware County128
Warren County1 or 21 or 2
Washington County66
Wayne County87
Webster County1 or 21 or 2
Wheeler County65
White County44
Whitfield County2016
Wilcox County43
Wilkes County1 or 21 or 2
Wilkinson County44
Worth County77

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2004 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, 2004
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.25617.6%
6 a.m. to noon33322.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.44730.7%
6 p.m. to midnight42228.9%
Table 4.Georgia: fatal crashes by weekday, 2004
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday22315.2%
Monday19313.2%
Tuesday18312.5%
Wednesday20313.9%
Thursday18212.4%
Friday23916.3%
Saturday24016.4%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Georgia fatal crashes in 2004. https://fatalroads.com/state/georgia/2004/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 2004. 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 2004 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 2004 was in Georgia?

Georgia had 1,634 of the 42,836 deaths in the United States in 2004. That is 3.8 percent.

In how many counties of Georgia did FARS record a fatal crash in 2004?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 152 counties of Georgia in 2004.