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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1991

FARS records 94 deaths in 86 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1991.

In 1990 it records 112 deaths in 104 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 16.1% from 1990 to 1991. In the United States they fell by 6.9%.

In 1991, a driver was recorded as drinking in 41.9% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 38.7% 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

1991 beside 1990

Table 1.North Dakota in 1991, in 1990 and the United States in 1991
FigureNorth Dakota, 1991North Dakota, 1990United States, 1991
Deaths9411241,508
Fatal crashes8610436,937
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking364814,293

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 1991

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1991, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County33
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County1 or 21 or 2
Cass County99
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County77
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 County53
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County44
Morton County54
Mountrail County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County97
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sheridan County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County44
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County55
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County31 or 2
Ward County77
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1991 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, 1991
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2225.6%
6 a.m. to noon1719.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.2225.6%
6 p.m. to midnight2529.1%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1991
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1416.3%
Monday78.1%
Tuesday1011.6%
Wednesday1011.6%
Thursday910.5%
Friday1719.8%
Saturday1922.1%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1991. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1991/. 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 1991. 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 1991 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 1991 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 94 of the 41,508 deaths in the United States in 1991. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1991?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 34 counties of North Dakota in 1991.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1991 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 36 of 86 fatal crashes in 1991.