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North Dakota fatal crashes in 2017

FARS records 116 deaths in 106 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2017.

In 2016 it records 113 deaths in 102 fatal crashes.

In 2017 the rate is 15.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 11.5 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2017, North Dakota was number 13 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota rose by 2.7% from 2016 to 2017. In the United States they fell by 0.9%.

In 2017, a driver was recorded as drinking in 46.2% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 26.9% 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 .

NHTSA released the final file of 2017 on 22 Oct 2019. Release dates

2017 beside 2016

Table 1.North Dakota in 2017, in 2016 and the United States in 2017
FigureNorth Dakota, 2017North Dakota, 2016United States, 2017
Deaths11611337,473
Fatal crashes10610234,560
Deaths for each 100,000 residents15.314.911.5
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking49499,296

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

Counties in 2017

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2017, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County1 or 21 or 2
Barnes County31 or 2
Benson County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County44
Burke County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County44
Cass County88
Cavalier County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County44
Grand Forks County75
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
LaMoure County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County98
McLean County44
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County1 or 21 or 2
Mountrail County87
Nelson County1 or 21 or 2
Pierce County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County1 or 21 or 2
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County43
Rolette County98
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County1 or 21 or 2
Slope County31 or 2
Stark County66
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 County76
Wells County1 or 21 or 2
Williams County66

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2017 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, 2017
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2424.2%
6 a.m. to noon1818.2%
Noon to 6 p.m.2424.2%
6 p.m. to midnight3333.3%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2017
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1917.9%
Monday1514.2%
Tuesday1514.2%
Wednesday1110.4%
Thursday1312.3%
Friday1615.1%
Saturday1716.0%

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

Road function class

Table 5.North Dakota: fatal crashes by road function class, 2017
Road function classFatal crashesShare
Interstate87.8%
Other freeways and expressways21.9%
Other principal arterial3836.9%
Minor arterial87.8%
Major collector1716.5%
Minor collector00.0%
Local3029.1%
Not reported3n/a

Note: the shares are of the crashes with a reported class. Road function classes

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. North Dakota fatal crashes in 2017. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2017/. 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 2017. NHTSA released the final file of 2017 on 22 Oct 2019. 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 2017 page use?

NHTSA released the final file of 2017 on 22 Oct 2019.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 2017 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 116 of the 37,473 deaths in the United States in 2017. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2017?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 36 counties of North Dakota in 2017.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2017 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 49 of 106 fatal crashes in 2017.