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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2011

FARS records 148 deaths in 130 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2011.

In 2010 it records 105 deaths in 92 fatal crashes.

In 2011 the rate is 21.6 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 10.4 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2011, North Dakota was number 2 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 41.0% from 2010 to 2011. In the United States they fell by 1.6%.

In 2011, a driver was recorded as drinking in 40.8% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 30.9% 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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2011 beside 2010

Table 1.North Dakota in 2011, in 2010 and the United States in 2011
FigureNorth Dakota, 2011North Dakota, 2010United States, 2011
Deaths14810532,479
Fatal crashes1309229,867
Deaths for each 100,000 residents21.615.610.4
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking53429,231

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 2011

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2011, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County66
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County54
Burleigh County1 or 21 or 2
Cass County1010
Divide County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County75
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Foster County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Griggs County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County33
Logan County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County63
McKenzie County1613
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County85
Mountrail County87
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County33
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Renville County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County55
Rolette County86
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County55
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County1313
Wells County31 or 2
Williams County1010

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2011 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, 2011
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.3023.3%
6 a.m. to noon2620.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.3527.1%
6 p.m. to midnight3829.5%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2011
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2116.2%
Monday2116.2%
Tuesday1310.0%
Wednesday1511.5%
Thursday1914.6%
Friday1612.3%
Saturday2519.2%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2011. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2011/. 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 2011. 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 2011 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 2011 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 148 of the 32,479 deaths in the United States in 2011. That is 0.5 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2011?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 39 counties of North Dakota in 2011.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2011 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 53 of 130 fatal crashes in 2011.