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South Dakota fatal crashes in 1998

FARS records 165 deaths in 149 fatal crashes in South Dakota in 1998.

In 1997 it records 148 deaths in 128 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in South Dakota rose by 11.5% from 1997 to 1998. In the United States they fell by 1.2%.

In 1998, a driver was recorded as drinking in 37.6% of fatal crashes in South Dakota and 30.0% 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

1998 beside 1997

Table 1.South Dakota in 1998, in 1997 and the United States in 1998
FigureSouth Dakota, 1998South Dakota, 1997United States, 1998
Deaths16514841,501
Fatal crashes14912837,107
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking564711,136

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 1998

Table 2.South Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 1998, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Aurora County1 or 21 or 2
Beadle County44
Bennett County1 or 21 or 2
Brookings County66
Brown County44
Brule County1 or 21 or 2
Buffalo County1 or 21 or 2
Butte County1 or 21 or 2
Charles Mix County1 or 21 or 2
Clark County1 or 21 or 2
Codington County1 or 21 or 2
Corson County1 or 21 or 2
Custer County1 or 21 or 2
Davison County43
Day County31 or 2
Deuel County33
Dewey County1 or 21 or 2
Douglas County1 or 21 or 2
Edmunds County1 or 21 or 2
Fall River County33
Faulk County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County1 or 21 or 2
Gregory County33
Haakon County1 or 21 or 2
Hamlin County1 or 21 or 2
Hanson County1 or 21 or 2
Harding County1 or 21 or 2
Hughes County44
Hutchinson County43
Lawrence County44
Lincoln County76
Lyman County31 or 2
Marshall County1 or 21 or 2
McCook County33
McPherson County31 or 2
Meade County44
Mellette County44
Minnehaha County1312
Moody County1 or 21 or 2
Oglala Lakota County66
Pennington County1413
Perkins County1 or 21 or 2
Roberts County66
Sanborn County1 or 21 or 2
Stanley County1 or 21 or 2
Sully County71 or 2
Todd County1110
Tripp County1 or 21 or 2
Turner County1 or 21 or 2
Union County1 or 21 or 2
Walworth County1 or 21 or 2
Yankton County54

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1998 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, 1998
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2618.2%
6 a.m. to noon3323.1%
Noon to 6 p.m.4128.7%
6 p.m. to midnight4330.1%
Table 4.South Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 1998
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday2214.8%
Monday2013.4%
Tuesday1610.7%
Wednesday1711.4%
Thursday2617.4%
Friday2214.8%
Saturday2617.4%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. South Dakota fatal crashes in 1998. https://fatalroads.com/state/south-dakota/1998/. 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 1998. 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 .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 1998 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 1998 was in South Dakota?

South Dakota had 165 of the 41,501 deaths in the United States in 1998. That is 0.4 percent.

In how many counties of South Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 1998?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 52 counties of South Dakota in 1998.

How many fatal crashes in South Dakota in 1998 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 56 of 149 fatal crashes in 1998.