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Edition: FARS 2024, annual fileNHTSA released it on Release dates

North Dakota fatal crashes in 2019

FARS records 100 deaths in 91 fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2019.

In 2018 it records 105 deaths in 95 fatal crashes.

In 2019 the rate is 13.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents in North Dakota and 11.1 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2019, North Dakota was number 20 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in North Dakota fell by 4.8% from 2018 to 2019. In the United States they fell by 1.3%.

In 2019, a driver was recorded as drinking in 40.7% of fatal crashes in North Dakota and 25.8% 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 2019 on 2 Mar 2022. Release dates

2019 beside 2018

Table 1.North Dakota in 2019, in 2018 and the United States in 2019
FigureNorth Dakota, 2019North Dakota, 2018United States, 2019
Deaths10010536,355
Fatal crashes919533,487
Deaths for each 100,000 residents13.113.811.1
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking37328,647

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 2019

Table 2.North Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2019, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Barnes County1 or 21 or 2
Benson County33
Billings County1 or 21 or 2
Bottineau County1 or 21 or 2
Burleigh County55
Cass County97
Dickey County1 or 21 or 2
Dunn County1 or 21 or 2
Golden Valley County1 or 21 or 2
Grand Forks County65
Hettinger County1 or 21 or 2
Kidder County1 or 21 or 2
McHenry County1 or 21 or 2
McIntosh County1 or 21 or 2
McKenzie County1110
McLean County1 or 21 or 2
Mercer County1 or 21 or 2
Morton County44
Mountrail County33
Oliver County31 or 2
Pembina County1 or 21 or 2
Ramsey County33
Ransom County1 or 21 or 2
Richland County1 or 21 or 2
Rolette County1 or 21 or 2
Sargent County1 or 21 or 2
Sheridan County1 or 21 or 2
Sioux County54
Stark County1 or 21 or 2
Stutsman County55
Towner County1 or 21 or 2
Traill County33
Walsh County1 or 21 or 2
Ward County64
Williams County66

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2019 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, 2019
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.1113.1%
6 a.m. to noon1416.7%
Noon to 6 p.m.3136.9%
6 p.m. to midnight2833.3%
Table 4.North Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2019
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday88.8%
Monday1617.6%
Tuesday1112.1%
Wednesday1617.6%
Thursday1011.0%
Friday1516.5%
Saturday1516.5%

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, 2019
Road function classFatal crashesShare
Interstate55.6%
Other freeways and expressways00.0%
Other principal arterial2831.1%
Minor arterial1718.9%
Major collector2123.3%
Minor collector11.1%
Local1820.0%
Not reported1n/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 2019. https://fatalroads.com/state/north-dakota/2019/. 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 2019. NHTSA released the final file of 2019 on 2 Mar 2022. 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 2019 page use?

NHTSA released the final file of 2019 on 2 Mar 2022.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 2019 was in North Dakota?

North Dakota had 100 of the 36,355 deaths in the United States in 2019. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of North Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2019?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 35 counties of North Dakota in 2019.

How many fatal crashes in North Dakota in 2019 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 37 of 91 fatal crashes in 2019.