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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1984

FARS records 100 deaths in 88 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1984.

In 1983 it records 116 deaths in 105 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 13.8% from 1983 to 1984. In the United States they rose by 3.9%.

In 1984, a driver was recorded as drinking in 39.8% 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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1984 beside 1983

Table 1.North Dakota in 1984, in 1983 and the United States in 1984
FigureNorth Dakota, 1984North Dakota, 1983United States, 1984
Deaths10011644,257
Fatal crashes8810539,631
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking355116,244

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 1984

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1984, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County43
Benson County31 or 2
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County33
Cass County96
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Golden Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County109
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County44
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County55
Mountrail County31 or 2
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County31 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County33
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County33
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County54
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County77
Ward County1110
Williams County43

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1984 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, 1984
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2023.0%
6 a.m. to noon1517.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.2528.7%
6 p.m. to midnight2731.0%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1984
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1213.6%
Monday1011.4%
Tuesday1314.8%
Wednesday1415.9%
Thursday1314.8%
Friday78.0%
Saturday1921.6%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1984. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1984/. 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 1984. 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 1984 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 1984 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 100 of the 44,257 deaths in the United States in 1984. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1984?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 32 counties of North Dakota in 1984.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1984 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 35 of 88 fatal crashes in 1984.