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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2013

FARS records 148 deaths in 133 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2013.

In 2012 it records 170 deaths in 147 fatal crashes.

In 2013 the rate is 20.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 10.4 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2013, North Dakota was number 2 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 12.9% from 2012 to 2013. In the United States they fell by 2.6%.

In 2013, a driver was recorded as drinking in 50.4% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 30.4% 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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2013 beside 2012

Table 1.North Dakota in 2013, in 2012 and the United States in 2013
FigureNorth Dakota, 2013North Dakota, 2012United States, 2013
Deaths14817032,893
Fatal crashes13314730,202
Deaths for each 100,000 residents20.524.210.4
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking67769,191

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 2013

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2013, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County64
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Bowman County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County33
Burleigh County1 or 21 or 2
Cass County1 or 21 or 2
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Divide County31 or 2
Dunn County44
Golden Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County55
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County2321
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County33
Mountrail County75
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County41 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County44
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County66
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County1 or 21 or 2
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County1816
Williams County2521

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2013 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, 2013
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2821.5%
6 a.m. to noon3224.6%
Noon to 6 p.m.3224.6%
6 p.m. to midnight3829.2%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2013
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2619.5%
Monday107.5%
Tuesday129.0%
Wednesday1612.0%
Thursday2317.3%
Friday1914.3%
Saturday2720.3%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2013. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2013/. 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 2013. 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 2013 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 2013 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 148 of the 32,893 deaths in the United States in 2013. That is 0.4 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2013?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 38 counties of North Dakota in 2013.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2013 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 67 of 133 fatal crashes in 2013.