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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1983

FARS records 116 deaths in 105 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1983.

In 1982 it records 148 deaths in 128 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 21.6% from 1982 to 1983. In the United States they fell by 3.1%.

In 1983, a driver was recorded as drinking in 48.6% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 41.0% 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 .

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1983 beside 1982

Table 1.North Dakota in 1983, in 1982 and the United States in 1983
FigureNorth Dakota, 1983North Dakota, 1982United States, 1983
Deaths11614842,589
Fatal crashes10512837,976
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking516415,565

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 1983

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1983, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County87
Benson County75
Bottineau County41 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County77
Cass County98
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
Logan County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County33
McLean County44
Mercer County66
Morton County33
Mountrail County33
Oliver County53
Pembina County31 or 2
Ramsey County66
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County33
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County33
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County65
Ward County66
Williams County55

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1983 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, 1983
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.3635.6%
6 a.m. to noon1918.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.2322.8%
6 p.m. to midnight2322.8%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1983
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2120.0%
Monday109.5%
Tuesday2019.0%
Wednesday87.6%
Thursday1110.5%
Friday1615.2%
Saturday1918.1%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1983. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1983/. 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 1983. 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 1983 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 1983 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 116 of the 42,589 deaths in the United States in 1983. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1983?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 35 counties of North Dakota in 1983.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1983 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 51 of 105 fatal crashes in 1983.