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North Carolina fatal crashes in 1999

FARS records 1,505 deaths in 1,350 fatal crashes in North Carolina in 1999.

In 1998 it records 1,596 deaths in 1,433 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Carolina fell by 5.7% from 1998 to 1999. In the United States they rose by 0.5%.

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

1999 beside 1998

Table 1.North Carolina in 1999, in 1998 and the United States in 1999
FigureNorth Carolina, 1999North Carolina, 1998United States, 1999
Deaths1,5051,59641,717
Fatal crashes1,3501,43337,140
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/a362n/a

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 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 1999

Table 2.North Carolina: counties with a fatal crash in 1999, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Alamance County2418
Alexander County76
Alleghany County1 or 21 or 2
Anson County1411
Ashe County97
Avery County33
Beaufort County98
Bertie County87
Bladen County1212
Brunswick County1514
Buncombe County3330
Burke County1616
Cabarrus County2319
Caldwell County1412
Carteret County1210
Caswell County109
Catawba County2220
Chatham County1513
Cherokee County77
Chowan County1 or 21 or 2
Clay County1 or 21 or 2
Cleveland County1616
Columbus County3026
Craven County1513
Cumberland County4340
Currituck County55
Dare County85
Davidson County3833
Davie County55
Duplin County2218
Durham County2725
Edgecombe County77
Forsyth County3532
Franklin County1311
Gaston County2222
Gates County76
Graham County1 or 21 or 2
Granville County109
Greene County1 or 21 or 2
Guilford County4946
Halifax County1817
Harnett County2825
Haywood County1311
Henderson County1211
Hertford County1110
Hoke County44
Iredell County2323
Jackson County44
Johnston County4943
Jones County33
Lee County1311
Lenoir County98
Lincoln County1111
Macon County44
Madison County41 or 2
Martin County109
McDowell County33
Mecklenburg County7169
Montgomery County97
Moore County1815
Nash County1714
New Hanover County1715
Northampton County88
Onslow County2925
Orange County1717
Pamlico County55
Pasquotank County44
Pender County1615
Perquimans County1 or 21 or 2
Person County88
Pitt County2214
Polk County76
Randolph County1917
Richmond County77
Robeson County4938
Rockingham County1715
Rowan County4034
Rutherford County1010
Sampson County1818
Scotland County1210
Stanly County1211
Stokes County77
Surry County2824
Swain County55
Transylvania County33
Tyrrell County1 or 21 or 2
Union County3026
Vance County99
Wake County7166
Warren County54
Washington County44
Watauga County66
Wayne County2523
Wilkes County88
Wilson County2421
Yadkin County109
Yancey County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1999 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.North Carolina: fatal crashes by time of day, 1999
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.22316.5%
6 a.m. to noon31323.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.41330.6%
6 p.m. to midnight40129.7%
Table 4.North Carolina: fatal crashes by weekday, 1999
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday19414.4%
Monday17713.1%
Tuesday16412.1%
Wednesday17312.8%
Thursday19114.1%
Friday22116.4%
Saturday23017.0%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Carolina fatal crashes in 1999. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-carolina/1999/. 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 1999. 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 1999 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 1999 was in North Carolina?

North Carolina had 1,505 of the 41,717 deaths in the United States in 1999. That is 3.6 percent.

In how many counties of North Carolina did FARS record a fatal crash in 1999?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 97 counties of North Carolina in 1999.