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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2010

FARS records 105 deaths in 92 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2010.

In 2009 it records 140 deaths in 116 fatal crashes.

In 2010 the rate is 15.6 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 10.7 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2010, North Dakota was number 14 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 25.0% from 2009 to 2010. In the United States they fell by 2.6%.

In 2010, a driver was recorded as drinking in 45.7% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 31.7% 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 .

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2010 beside 2009

Table 1.North Dakota in 2010, in 2009 and the United States in 2010
FigureNorth Dakota, 2010North Dakota, 2009United States, 2010
Deaths10514032,999
Fatal crashes9211630,296
Deaths for each 100,000 residents15.621.110.7
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking42479,618

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 2010

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2010, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County88
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County75
Cass County1210
Dunn County53
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County86
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County87
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County54
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County44
Rolette County33
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County44
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County53
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County33
Williams County33

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2010 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, 2010
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2527.2%
6 a.m. to noon2021.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.2021.7%
6 p.m. to midnight2729.3%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2010
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1617.4%
Monday1112.0%
Tuesday77.6%
Wednesday1112.0%
Thursday1617.4%
Friday1415.2%
Saturday1718.5%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2010. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2010/. 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 2010. 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 2010 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 2010 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 105 of the 32,999 deaths in the United States in 2010. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2010?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 34 counties of North Dakota in 2010.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2010 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 42 of 92 fatal crashes in 2010.