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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2003

FARS records 105 deaths in 95 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2003.

In 2002 it records 97 deaths in 84 fatal crashes.

In 2003 the rate is 16.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 14.8 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2003, North Dakota was number 24 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 8.2% from 2002 to 2003. In the United States they fell by 0.3%.

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

2003 beside 2002

Table 1.North Dakota in 2003, in 2002 and the United States in 2003
FigureNorth Dakota, 2003North Dakota, 2002United States, 2003
Deaths1059742,884
Fatal crashes958438,477
Deaths for each 100,000 residents16.415.214.8
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinkingn/an/an/a

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

NHTSA says that its count of drinking drivers is unreliable for 1977, 1981 and 1999 to 2007, because it was derived in a wrong way. This site gives no count for these years.

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 2003

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2003, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County44
Benson County55
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County64
Cass County55
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County54
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County43
McLean County31 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County55
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County31 or 2
Ramsey County44
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County66
Sheridan County31 or 2
Sioux County55
Stark County33
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County33
Traill County33
Walsh County66
Ward County65
Williams County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2003 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, 2003
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1313.8%
6 a.m. to noon2627.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.3031.9%
6 p.m. to midnight2526.6%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2003
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1616.8%
Monday1111.6%
Tuesday1313.7%
Wednesday1414.7%
Thursday1717.9%
Friday1212.6%
Saturday1212.6%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2003. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2003/. 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 2003. 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 2003 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 2003 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 105 of the 42,884 deaths in the United States in 2003. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2003?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 35 counties of North Dakota in 2003.