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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1980

FARS records 151 deaths in 133 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1980.

In 1979 it records 128 deaths in 114 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 18.0% from 1979 to 1980. In the United States they did not change.

In 1980, a driver was recorded as drinking in 52.6% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 40.4% 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

1980 beside 1979

Table 1.North Dakota in 1980, in 1979 and the United States in 1980
FigureNorth Dakota, 1980North Dakota, 1979United States, 1980
Deaths15112851,091
Fatal crashes13311445,284
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking704918,284

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 1980

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1980, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County33
Benson County55
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County33
Bowman County44
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County77
Cass County66
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Golden Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County66
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County33
Kidder County31 or 2
LaMoure County33
McHenry County51 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County96
McLean County77
Mercer County33
Morton County65
Mountrail County43
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County43
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County53
Rolette County44
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County65
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County1111
Ward County76
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County139

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1980 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, 1980
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.4936.8%
6 a.m. to noon2015.0%
Noon to 6 p.m.2317.3%
6 p.m. to midnight4130.8%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1980
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2216.5%
Monday86.0%
Tuesday139.8%
Wednesday139.8%
Thursday1914.3%
Friday2921.8%
Saturday2921.8%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1980. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1980/. 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 1980. 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 1980 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 1980 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 151 of the 51,091 deaths in the United States in 1980. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1980?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 41 counties of North Dakota in 1980.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1980 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 70 of 133 fatal crashes in 1980.