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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1990

FARS records 112 deaths in 104 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1990.

In 1989 it records 81 deaths in 76 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 38.3% from 1989 to 1990. In the United States they fell by 2.2%.

In 1990, a driver was recorded as drinking in 46.2% 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

1990 beside 1989

Table 1.North Dakota in 1990, in 1989 and the United States in 1990
FigureNorth Dakota, 1990North Dakota, 1989United States, 1990
Deaths1128144,599
Fatal crashes1047639,836
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking482816,052

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 1990

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1990, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County44
Benson County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County31 or 2
Burleigh County66
Cass County88
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Divide County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County77
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County43
McLean County33
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County31 or 2
Mountrail County33
Nelson County43
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County44
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County66
Sioux County43
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County74
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County33
Walsh County44
Ward County99
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1990 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, 1990
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2423.1%
6 a.m. to noon2019.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.2826.9%
6 p.m. to midnight3230.8%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1990
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2019.2%
Monday1413.5%
Tuesday1211.5%
Wednesday1110.6%
Thursday1312.5%
Friday1312.5%
Saturday2120.2%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1990. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1990/. 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 1990. 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 1990 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 1990 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 112 of the 44,599 deaths in the United States in 1990. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1990?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 40 counties of North Dakota in 1990.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1990 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 48 of 104 fatal crashes in 1990.