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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1987

FARS records 101 deaths in 90 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1987.

In 1986 it records 100 deaths in 88 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 1.0% from 1986 to 1987. In the United States they rose by 0.7%.

In 1987, a driver was recorded as drinking in 43.3% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 42.1% 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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1987 beside 1986

Table 1.North Dakota in 1987, in 1986 and the United States in 1987
FigureNorth Dakota, 1987North Dakota, 1986United States, 1987
Deaths10110046,390
Fatal crashes908841,438
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking393617,427

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 1987

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1987, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County31 or 2
Benson County1 or 21 or 2
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County53
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County66
Cass County55
Cavalier County44
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County1511
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County64
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County44
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County44
Walsh County33
Ward County55
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County43

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1987 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, 1987
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2628.9%
6 a.m. to noon1617.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.3033.3%
6 p.m. to midnight1820.0%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1987
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1516.7%
Monday1516.7%
Tuesday66.7%
Wednesday1213.3%
Thursday1112.2%
Friday1820.0%
Saturday1314.4%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1987. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1987/. 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 1987. 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 1987 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 1987 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 101 of the 46,390 deaths in the United States in 1987. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1987?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 35 counties of North Dakota in 1987.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1987 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 39 of 90 fatal crashes in 1987.