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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1985

FARS records 90 deaths in 77 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1985.

In 1984 it records 100 deaths in 88 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 10.0% from 1984 to 1985. In the United States they fell by 1.0%.

In 1985, a driver was recorded as drinking in 55.8% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 40.3% 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

1985 beside 1984

Table 1.North Dakota in 1985, in 1984 and the United States in 1985
FigureNorth Dakota, 1985North Dakota, 1984United States, 1985
Deaths9010043,825
Fatal crashes778839,196
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking433515,777

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 1985

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1985, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County33
Benson County33
Burleigh County65
Cass County87
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Golden Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County44
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County1 or 21 or 2
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County31 or 2
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County33
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County33
Sioux County53
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County54
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County1310
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County55

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1985 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, 1985
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2836.4%
6 a.m. to noon911.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.2228.6%
6 p.m. to midnight1823.4%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1985
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1215.6%
Monday67.8%
Tuesday1215.6%
Wednesday810.4%
Thursday1316.9%
Friday1215.6%
Saturday1418.2%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1985. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1985/. 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 1985. 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 1985 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 1985 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 90 of the 43,825 deaths in the United States in 1985. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1985?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 34 counties of North Dakota in 1985.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1985 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 43 of 77 fatal crashes in 1985.