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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1995

FARS records 74 deaths in 65 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1995.

In 1994 it records 88 deaths in 76 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 15.9% from 1994 to 1995. In the United States they rose by 2.7%.

In 1995, a driver was recorded as drinking in 53.8% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 32.7% 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

1995 beside 1994

Table 1.North Dakota in 1995, in 1994 and the United States in 1995
FigureNorth Dakota, 1995North Dakota, 1994United States, 1995
Deaths748841,817
Fatal crashes657637,241
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking353112,173

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 1995

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1995, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County63
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County1 or 21 or 2
Cass County87
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Divide County33
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County33
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County1 or 21 or 2
McLean County33
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County33
Nelson County33
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County33
Rolette County1 or 21 or 2
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County33
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County43
Ward County43
Williams County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1995 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, 1995
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1421.9%
6 a.m. to noon1218.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.1828.1%
6 p.m. to midnight2031.3%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1995
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1523.1%
Monday46.2%
Tuesday812.3%
Wednesday812.3%
Thursday710.8%
Friday1116.9%
Saturday1218.5%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1995. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1995/. 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 1995. 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 1995 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 1995 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 74 of the 41,817 deaths in the United States in 1995. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1995?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 33 counties of North Dakota in 1995.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1995 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 35 of 65 fatal crashes in 1995.