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Kentucky fatal crashes in 1994

FARS records 778 deaths in 693 fatal crashes in Kentucky in 1994.

In 1993 it records 871 deaths in 761 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Kentucky fell by 10.7% from 1993 to 1994. In the United States they rose by 1.4%.

In 1994, a driver was recorded as drinking in 36.5% of fatal crashes in Kentucky and 33.2% 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

1994 beside 1993

Table 1.Kentucky in 1994, in 1993 and the United States in 1994
FigureKentucky, 1994Kentucky, 1993United States, 1994
Deaths77887140,716
Fatal crashes69376136,254
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking25327412,028

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 1994

Table 2.Kentucky: counties with a fatal crash in 1994, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adair County55
Allen County1212
Anderson County31 or 2
Ballard County1 or 21 or 2
Barren County1512
Bath County33
Bell County87
Boone County44
Bourbon County76
Boyd County31 or 2
Boyle County66
Bracken County74
Breathitt County33
Breckinridge County66
Bullitt County1815
Butler County75
Caldwell County33
Calloway County44
Campbell County53
Carlisle County1 or 21 or 2
Carroll County44
Carter County108
Casey County33
Christian County1313
Clark County66
Clay County87
Clinton County1 or 21 or 2
Crittenden County55
Cumberland County31 or 2
Daviess County1010
Edmonson County1 or 21 or 2
Elliott County33
Fayette County2120
Fleming County44
Floyd County1512
Franklin County44
Fulton County1 or 21 or 2
Gallatin County33
Garrard County33
Grant County61 or 2
Graves County99
Grayson County99
Green County1 or 21 or 2
Greenup County66
Hancock County1 or 21 or 2
Hardin County1311
Harlan County76
Harrison County1 or 21 or 2
Hart County88
Henderson County76
Henry County44
Hickman County41 or 2
Hopkins County55
Jackson County33
Jefferson County5450
Jessamine County88
Johnson County44
Kenton County1010
Knott County66
Knox County33
Larue County77
Laurel County98
Lawrence County86
Lee County1 or 21 or 2
Leslie County1611
Letcher County66
Lewis County88
Lincoln County1 or 21 or 2
Livingston County43
Logan County43
Lyon County54
Madison County1512
Magoffin County1 or 21 or 2
Marion County44
Marshall County98
Martin County1 or 21 or 2
Mason County1 or 21 or 2
McCracken County1313
McCreary County108
McLean County44
Meade County86
Menifee County43
Mercer County31 or 2
Metcalfe County1 or 21 or 2
Monroe County33
Montgomery County109
Morgan County43
Muhlenberg County55
Nelson County76
Nicholas County1 or 21 or 2
Ohio County86
Oldham County75
Owen County1 or 21 or 2
Owsley County1 or 21 or 2
Pendleton County33
Perry County108
Pike County1919
Powell County44
Pulaski County99
Rockcastle County97
Rowan County31 or 2
Russell County1 or 21 or 2
Scott County1310
Shelby County1110
Simpson County33
Spencer County33
Taylor County108
Todd County54
Trigg County76
Trimble County1 or 21 or 2
Union County76
Warren County1918
Washington County77
Wayne County77
Webster County33
Whitley County65
Wolfe County44
Woodford County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1994 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Kentucky: fatal crashes by time of day, 1994
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.10815.6%
6 a.m. to noon13920.1%
Noon to 6 p.m.23934.6%
6 p.m. to midnight20529.7%
Table 4.Kentucky: fatal crashes by weekday, 1994
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday9914.3%
Monday8712.6%
Tuesday8512.3%
Wednesday8612.4%
Thursday9013.0%
Friday12317.7%
Saturday12317.7%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Kentucky fatal crashes in 1994. https://fatalroads.com/state/kentucky/1994/. 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 1994. 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 1994 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 1994 was in Kentucky?

Kentucky had 778 of the 40,716 deaths in the United States in 1994. That is 1.9 percent.

In how many counties of Kentucky did FARS record a fatal crash in 1994?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 118 counties of Kentucky in 1994.

How many fatal crashes in Kentucky in 1994 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 253 of 693 fatal crashes in 1994.