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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1976

FARS records 182 deaths in 151 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1976.

In 1975 it records 167 deaths in 137 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 9.0% from 1975 to 1976. In the United States they rose by 2.2%.

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

1976 beside 1975

Table 1.North Dakota in 1976, in 1975 and the United States in 1976
FigureNorth Dakota, 1976North Dakota, 1975United States, 1976
Deaths18216745,523
Fatal crashes15113739,747
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking008,147

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 1976

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1976, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County86
Benson County54
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County53
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County77
Cass County1414
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dickey County43
Divide County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County31 or 2
Grand Forks County76
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
Logan County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County75
McLean County107
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County66
Mountrail County54
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County55
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County31 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County44
Rolette County88
Sargent County33
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County55
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County76
Walsh County44
Ward County2014
Wells County95
Williams County74

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1976 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.North Dakota: fatal crashes by time of day, 1976
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.3724.8%
6 a.m. to noon2315.4%
Noon to 6 p.m.4731.5%
6 p.m. to midnight4228.2%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1976
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1912.6%
Monday2013.2%
Tuesday1711.3%
Wednesday138.6%
Thursday1912.6%
Friday2617.2%
Saturday3724.5%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1976. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1976/. 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 1976. 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 1976 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 1976 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 182 of the 45,523 deaths in the United States in 1976. That is 0.4 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1976?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 42 counties of North Dakota in 1976.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1976 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 0 of 151 fatal crashes in 1976.