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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1997

FARS records 105 deaths in 89 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1997.

In 1996 it records 85 deaths in 80 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 23.5% from 1996 to 1997. In the United States they fell by 0.1%.

In 1997, a driver was recorded as drinking in 46.1% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 30.1% 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 .

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Release dates

1997 beside 1996

Table 1.North Dakota in 1997, in 1996 and the United States in 1997
FigureNorth Dakota, 1997North Dakota, 1996United States, 1997
Deaths1058542,013
Fatal crashes898037,324
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking414011,231

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 1997

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1997, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County1 or 21 or 2
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County51 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County1 or 21 or 2
Cass County1010
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Divide County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County64
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County33
LaMoure County64
McHenry County44
McIntosh County31 or 2
McKenzie County33
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County116
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County33
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County66
Sheridan County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County44
Traill County44
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County75
Williams County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1997 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, 1997
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1517.2%
6 a.m. to noon2326.4%
Noon to 6 p.m.2225.3%
6 p.m. to midnight2731.0%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1997
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1314.6%
Monday89.0%
Tuesday1516.9%
Wednesday1213.5%
Thursday1516.9%
Friday1415.7%
Saturday1213.5%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1997. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1997/. 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 1997. 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 1997 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 1997 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 105 of the 42,013 deaths in the United States in 1997. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1997?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 37 counties of North Dakota in 1997.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1997 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 41 of 89 fatal crashes in 1997.