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Minnesota fatal crashes in 1995

FARS records 597 deaths in 515 fatal crashes in Minnesota in 1995.

In 1994 it records 646 deaths in 552 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Minnesota fell by 7.6% from 1994 to 1995. In the United States they rose by 2.7%.

In 1995, a driver was recorded as drinking in 39.8% of fatal crashes in Minnesota and 32.7% 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

1995 beside 1994

Table 1.Minnesota in 1995, in 1994 and the United States in 1995
FigureMinnesota, 1995Minnesota, 1994United States, 1995
Deaths59764641,817
Fatal crashes51555237,241
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking20519712,173

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 1995

Table 2.Minnesota: counties with a fatal crash in 1995, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Aitkin County77
Anoka County2525
Becker County117
Beltrami County99
Benton County109
Big Stone County31 or 2
Blue Earth County106
Brown County77
Carlton County65
Carver County1611
Cass County109
Chippewa County33
Chisago County66
Clay County127
Clearwater County55
Cottonwood County31 or 2
Crow Wing County88
Dakota County2624
Dodge County55
Douglas County66
Faribault County64
Fillmore County44
Freeborn County109
Goodhue County65
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Hennepin County5448
Houston County44
Hubbard County1 or 21 or 2
Isanti County33
Itasca County75
Jackson County1 or 21 or 2
Kanabec County66
Kandiyohi County129
Kittson County1 or 21 or 2
Koochiching County31 or 2
Lake County1 or 21 or 2
Lake of the Woods County1 or 21 or 2
Lincoln County1 or 21 or 2
Lyon County86
Mahnomen County1 or 21 or 2
Martin County73
McLeod County65
Meeker County44
Mille Lacs County1 or 21 or 2
Morrison County138
Mower County77
Murray County43
Nicollet County1 or 21 or 2
Nobles County1 or 21 or 2
Olmsted County118
Otter Tail County109
Pennington County1 or 21 or 2
Pine County109
Pipestone County1 or 21 or 2
Polk County76
Pope County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County2825
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Rice County87
Rock County1 or 21 or 2
Roseau County1 or 21 or 2
Scott County1414
Sherburne County77
Sibley County65
St. Louis County2622
Stearns County2218
Steele County109
Swift County1 or 21 or 2
Todd County44
Traverse County31 or 2
Wabasha County43
Wadena County66
Waseca County1 or 21 or 2
Washington County1613
Watonwan County1 or 21 or 2
Wilkin County1 or 21 or 2
Winona County77
Wright County1413
Yellow Medicine County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1995 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Minnesota: fatal crashes by time of day, 1995
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.10821.3%
6 a.m. to noon10520.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.15229.9%
6 p.m. to midnight14328.1%
Table 4.Minnesota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1995
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday7915.3%
Monday6913.4%
Tuesday499.5%
Wednesday6111.8%
Thursday6011.7%
Friday8917.3%
Saturday10821.0%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Minnesota fatal crashes in 1995. https://fatalroads.com/state/minnesota/1995/. 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 1995. 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 1995 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 1995 was in Minnesota?

Minnesota had 597 of the 41,817 deaths in the United States in 1995. That is 1.4 percent.

In how many counties of Minnesota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1995?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 79 counties of Minnesota in 1995.

How many fatal crashes in Minnesota in 1995 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 205 of 515 fatal crashes in 1995.