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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2014

FARS records 135 deaths in 121 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2014.

In 2013 it records 148 deaths in 133 fatal crashes.

In 2014 the rate is 18.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 10.3 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2014, North Dakota was number 5 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 8.8% from 2013 to 2014. In the United States they fell by 0.5%.

In 2014, a driver was recorded as drinking in 43.0% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 29.4% 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 .

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Release dates

2014 beside 2013

Table 1.North Dakota in 2014, in 2013 and the United States in 2014
FigureNorth Dakota, 2014North Dakota, 2013United States, 2014
Deaths13514832,744
Fatal crashes12113330,056
Deaths for each 100,000 residents18.320.510.3
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking52678,833

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 2014

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2014, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County33
Benson County44
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County44
Cass County66
Cavalier County31 or 2
Dunn County64
Eddy County1 or 21 or 2
Emmons County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County33
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County44
McKenzie County2320
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County55
Nelson County55
Oliver County1 or 21 or 2
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County31 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County31 or 2
Rolette County33
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County1 or 21 or 2
Stark County76
Steele County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County86
Ward County98
Williams County1210

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2014 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, 2014
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1916.1%
6 a.m. to noon2420.3%
Noon to 6 p.m.2924.6%
6 p.m. to midnight4639.0%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2014
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday129.9%
Monday1814.9%
Tuesday75.8%
Wednesday2117.4%
Thursday1613.2%
Friday1915.7%
Saturday2823.1%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2014. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2014/. 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 2014. 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 2014 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 2014 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 135 of the 32,744 deaths in the United States in 2014. That is 0.4 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2014?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 35 counties of North Dakota in 2014.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2014 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 52 of 121 fatal crashes in 2014.