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Kansas fatal crashes in 1975

FARS records 509 deaths in 433 fatal crashes in Kansas in 1975.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

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

1975 beside the United States

Table 1.Kansas in 1975 and the United States in 1975
FigureKansas, 1975United States, 1975
Deaths50944,525
Fatal crashes43339,161
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking717,583

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

NHTSA says that the alcohol data of the early years, especially 1975 and 1976, must be used with care.

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 1975

Table 2.Kansas: counties with a fatal crash in 1975, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Allen County44
Anderson County66
Atchison County33
Barton County33
Bourbon County44
Brown County53
Butler County1810
Chase County1 or 21 or 2
Chautauqua County1 or 21 or 2
Cherokee County77
Cheyenne County1 or 21 or 2
Clay County1 or 21 or 2
Cloud County44
Coffey County43
Cowley County43
Crawford County55
Decatur County31 or 2
Dickinson County33
Doniphan County31 or 2
Douglas County129
Edwards County31 or 2
Ellis County107
Ellsworth County63
Finney County77
Ford County54
Franklin County65
Geary County65
Gove County31 or 2
Graham County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County33
Gray County1 or 21 or 2
Greeley County31 or 2
Greenwood County65
Hamilton County1 or 21 or 2
Harper County1 or 21 or 2
Harvey County31 or 2
Haskell County1 or 21 or 2
Jackson County65
Jefferson County65
Jewell County1 or 21 or 2
Johnson County3935
Kearny County1 or 21 or 2
Kingman County55
Kiowa County1 or 21 or 2
Labette County33
Lane County1 or 21 or 2
Leavenworth County128
Lincoln County33
Linn County54
Lyon County76
Marion County44
Marshall County97
McPherson County76
Meade County1 or 21 or 2
Miami County87
Mitchell County33
Montgomery County1 or 21 or 2
Morris County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Nemaha County33
Neosho County65
Ness County31 or 2
Norton County1 or 21 or 2
Osage County41 or 2
Osborne County1 or 21 or 2
Ottawa County41 or 2
Pawnee County43
Phillips County1 or 21 or 2
Pottawatomie County44
Pratt County76
Rawlins County1 or 21 or 2
Reno County1513
Republic County1 or 21 or 2
Rice County1 or 21 or 2
Riley County98
Rooks County33
Rush County1 or 21 or 2
Russell County44
Saline County54
Scott County1 or 21 or 2
Sedgwick County5046
Seward County33
Shawnee County1715
Sheridan County1 or 21 or 2
Sherman County33
Smith County1 or 21 or 2
Stafford County1 or 21 or 2
Stevens County1 or 21 or 2
Sumner County127
Thomas County75
Trego County1 or 21 or 2
Wabaunsee County1 or 21 or 2
Washington County44
Wichita County1 or 21 or 2
Wilson County33
Woodson County44
Wyandotte County2120

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1975 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Kansas: fatal crashes by time of day, 1975
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.9622.9%
6 a.m. to noon8821.0%
Noon to 6 p.m.12229.0%
6 p.m. to midnight11427.1%
Table 4.Kansas: fatal crashes by weekday, 1975
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday6815.7%
Monday4710.9%
Tuesday5111.8%
Wednesday4510.4%
Thursday5913.6%
Friday7417.1%
Saturday8920.6%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Kansas fatal crashes in 1975. https://fatalroads.com/state/kansas/1975/. 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 1975. 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 .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 1975 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 1975 was in Kansas?

Kansas had 509 of the 44,525 deaths in the United States in 1975. That is 1.1 percent.

In how many counties of Kansas did FARS record a fatal crash in 1975?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 97 counties of Kansas in 1975.

How many fatal crashes in Kansas in 1975 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 71 of 433 fatal crashes in 1975.