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South Dakota fatal crashes in 1987

FARS records 134 deaths in 107 fatal crashes in South Dakota in 1987.

In 1986 it records 134 deaths in 118 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in South Dakota did not change from 1986 to 1987. In the United States they rose by 0.7%.

In 1987, a driver was recorded as drinking in 45.8% of fatal crashes in South Dakota and 42.1% 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

1987 beside 1986

Table 1.South Dakota in 1987, in 1986 and the United States in 1987
FigureSouth Dakota, 1987South Dakota, 1986United States, 1987
Deaths13413446,390
Fatal crashes10711841,438
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking495717,427

Note: this site has no rate for the years before 2000.

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 1987

Table 2.South Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1987, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Beadle County31 or 2
Bon Homme County1 or 21 or 2
Brookings County1 or 21 or 2
Brown County54
Butte County31 or 2
Charles Mix County1 or 21 or 2
Clark County1 or 21 or 2
Clay County1 or 21 or 2
Codington County33
Day County1 or 21 or 2
Dewey County41 or 2
Edmunds County1 or 21 or 2
Fall River County75
Faulk County1 or 21 or 2
Haakon County1 or 21 or 2
Hamlin County1 or 21 or 2
Harding County1 or 21 or 2
Hughes County44
Hutchinson County33
Hyde County1 or 21 or 2
Jackson County1 or 21 or 2
Jerauld County1 or 21 or 2
Kingsbury County1 or 21 or 2
Lawrence County54
Lincoln County86
Lyman County43
McPherson County1 or 21 or 2
Minnehaha County55
Moody County51 or 2
Oglala Lakota County108
Pennington County2317
Perkins County1 or 21 or 2
Potter County31 or 2
Roberts County1 or 21 or 2
Sanborn County1 or 21 or 2
Stanley County31 or 2
Todd County33
Tripp County31 or 2
Union County31 or 2
Yankton County1 or 21 or 2
Ziebach County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1987 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.South Dakota: fatal crashes by time of day, 1987
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2119.8%
6 a.m. to noon1817.0%
Noon to 6 p.m.3331.1%
6 p.m. to midnight3432.1%
Table 4.South Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1987
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1816.8%
Monday76.5%
Tuesday1816.8%
Wednesday1312.1%
Thursday1211.2%
Friday1917.8%
Saturday2018.7%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. South Dakota fatal crashes in 1987. https://fatalroads.com/state/south-dakota/1987/. 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 1987. 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 1987 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 1987 was in South Dakota?

South Dakota had 134 of the 46,390 deaths in the United States in 1987. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of South Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1987?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 41 counties of South Dakota in 1987.

How many fatal crashes in South Dakota in 1987 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 49 of 107 fatal crashes in 1987.