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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1982

FARS records 148 deaths in 128 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1982.

In 1981 it records 167 deaths in 154 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 11.4% from 1981 to 1982. In the United States they fell by 10.9%.

In 1982, a driver was recorded as drinking in 50.0% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 41.5% 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

1982 beside 1981

Table 1.North Dakota in 1982, in 1981 and the United States in 1982
FigureNorth Dakota, 1982North Dakota, 1981United States, 1982
Deaths14816743,945
Fatal crashes12815439,092
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking64n/a16,223

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 1982

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1982, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County33
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County33
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County66
Cass County1514
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County31 or 2
Grand Forks County97
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County65
McKenzie County33
McLean County44
Mercer County55
Morton County54
Mountrail County33
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County33
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County84
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County43
Rolette County44
Sheridan County31 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County44
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County66
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County169
Williams County1211

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1982 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, 1982
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.3326.4%
6 a.m. to noon1512.0%
Noon to 6 p.m.2822.4%
6 p.m. to midnight4939.2%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1982
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2217.2%
Monday107.8%
Tuesday1310.2%
Wednesday1612.5%
Thursday1814.1%
Friday2418.8%
Saturday2519.5%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1982. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1982/. 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 1982. 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 1982 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 1982 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 148 of the 43,945 deaths in the United States in 1982. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1982?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 38 counties of North Dakota in 1982.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1982 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 64 of 128 fatal crashes in 1982.