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North Dakota fatal crashes in 1998

FARS records 92 deaths in 79 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1998.

In 1997 it records 105 deaths in 89 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 12.4% from 1997 to 1998. In the United States they fell by 1.2%.

In 1998, a driver was recorded as drinking in 43.0% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 30.0% 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

1998 beside 1997

Table 1.North Dakota in 1998, in 1997 and the United States in 1998
FigureNorth Dakota, 1998North Dakota, 1997United States, 1998
Deaths9210541,501
Fatal crashes798937,107
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking344111,136

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 1998

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1998, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County33
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County31 or 2
Burleigh County66
Cass County55
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Divide County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County51 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County33
Grant County53
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County1 or 21 or 2
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County33
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County1 or 21 or 2
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County33
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County55
Rolette County44
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County44
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County44
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County85

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1998 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, 1998
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1519.2%
6 a.m. to noon1924.4%
Noon to 6 p.m.2532.1%
6 p.m. to midnight1924.4%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1998
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1316.5%
Monday56.3%
Tuesday810.1%
Wednesday78.9%
Thursday1519.0%
Friday911.4%
Saturday2227.8%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 1998. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/1998/. 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 1998. 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 1998 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 1998 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 92 of the 41,501 deaths in the United States in 1998. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1998?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 36 counties of North Dakota in 1998.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 1998 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 34 of 79 fatal crashes in 1998.