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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2004

FARS records 100 deaths in 95 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2004.

In 2003 it records 105 deaths in 95 fatal crashes.

In 2004 the rate is 15.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 14.6 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2004, North Dakota was number 25 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 4.8% from 2003 to 2004. In the United States they fell by 0.1%.

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

2004 beside 2003

Table 1.North Dakota in 2004, in 2003 and the United States in 2004
FigureNorth Dakota, 2004North Dakota, 2003United States, 2004
Deaths10010542,836
Fatal crashes959538,444
Deaths for each 100,000 residents15.516.414.6
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 2004

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2004, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County33
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County33
Cass County55
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County33
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County1210
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County1 or 21 or 2
McLean County33
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County43
Mountrail County55
Nelson County33
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County33
Rolette County33
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County33
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County44
Ward County66
Wells County76
Williams County43

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2004 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, 2004
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1920.2%
6 a.m. to noon2324.5%
Noon to 6 p.m.3335.1%
6 p.m. to midnight1920.2%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2004
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1414.7%
Monday1111.6%
Tuesday1111.6%
Wednesday1313.7%
Thursday1515.8%
Friday1818.9%
Saturday1313.7%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2004. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2004/. 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 2004. 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 .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 2004 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 2004 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 100 of the 42,836 deaths in the United States in 2004. That is 0.2 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2004?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 38 counties of North Dakota in 2004.