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Edition: FARS 2024, annual fileNHTSA released it on Release dates

Montana fatal crashes in 2019

FARS records 184 deaths in 166 fatal crashes in Montana in 2019.

In 2018 it records 181 deaths in 167 fatal crashes.

In 2019 the rate is 17.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents in Montana and 11.1 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2019, Montana was number 6 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in Montana rose by 1.7% from 2018 to 2019. In the United States they fell by 1.3%.

In 2019, a driver was recorded as drinking in 42.2% of fatal crashes in Montana and 25.8% 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 .

NHTSA released the final file of 2019 on 2 Mar 2022. Release dates

2019 beside 2018

Table 1.Montana in 2019, in 2018 and the United States in 2019
FigureMontana, 2019Montana, 2018United States, 2019
Deaths18418136,355
Fatal crashes16616733,487
Deaths for each 100,000 residents17.217.011.1
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking70818,647

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

Counties in 2019

Table 2.Montana: counties with a fatal crash in 2019, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Beaverhead County33
Big Horn County1611
Blaine County1 or 21 or 2
Broadwater County1 or 21 or 2
Carbon County33
Carter County1 or 21 or 2
Cascade County107
Chouteau County1 or 21 or 2
Custer County1 or 21 or 2
Dawson County1 or 21 or 2
Deer Lodge County1 or 21 or 2
Flathead County1512
Gallatin County77
Garfield County1 or 21 or 2
Glacier County33
Granite County1 or 21 or 2
Hill County33
Jefferson County33
Judith Basin County1 or 21 or 2
Lake County108
Lewis and Clark County66
Lincoln County55
Madison County1 or 21 or 2
McCone County1 or 21 or 2
Mineral County65
Missoula County99
Park County55
Phillips County44
Pondera County1 or 21 or 2
Powell County1 or 21 or 2
Ravalli County55
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Roosevelt County97
Rosebud County33
Sanders County55
Sheridan County1 or 21 or 2
Silver Bow County66
Sweet Grass County1 or 21 or 2
Teton County1 or 21 or 2
Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Wibaux County1 or 21 or 2
Yellowstone County1817

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2019 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Montana: fatal crashes by time of day, 2019
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2816.9%
6 a.m. to noon3219.3%
Noon to 6 p.m.5834.9%
6 p.m. to midnight4828.9%
Table 4.Montana: fatal crashes by weekday, 2019
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2615.7%
Monday2917.5%
Tuesday2112.7%
Wednesday2012.0%
Thursday148.4%
Friday2716.3%
Saturday2917.5%

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

Road function class

Table 5.Montana: fatal crashes by road function class, 2019
Road function classFatal crashesShare
Interstate2414.5%
Other freeways and expressways00.0%
Other principal arterial5834.9%
Minor arterial2716.3%
Major collector2313.9%
Minor collector42.4%
Local3018.1%
Not reported0n/a

Note: the shares are of the crashes with a reported class. Road function classes

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Montana fatal crashes in 2019. https://fatalroads.com/state/montana/2019/. 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 2019. NHTSA released the final file of 2019 on 2 Mar 2022. 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 2019 page use?

NHTSA released the final file of 2019 on 2 Mar 2022.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 2019 was in Montana?

Montana had 184 of the 36,355 deaths in the United States in 2019. That is 0.5 percent.

In how many counties of Montana did FARS record a fatal crash in 2019?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 42 counties of Montana in 2019.

How many fatal crashes in Montana in 2019 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 70 of 166 fatal crashes in 2019.