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South Dakota fatal crashes in 2008

FARS records 121 deaths in 109 fatal crashes in South Dakota in 2008.

In 2007 it records 146 deaths in 130 fatal crashes.

In 2008 the rate is 15.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents in South Dakota and 12.3 in the United States.

By deaths for each 100,000 residents in 2008, South Dakota was number 18 of 51, the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Deaths in South Dakota fell by 17.1% from 2007 to 2008. In the United States they fell by 9.3%.

In 2008, a driver was recorded as drinking in 35.8% of fatal crashes in South Dakota and 32.6% 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

2008 beside 2007

Table 1.South Dakota in 2008, in 2007 and the United States in 2008
FigureSouth Dakota, 2008South Dakota, 2007United States, 2008
Deaths12114637,423
Fatal crashes10913034,172
Deaths for each 100,000 residents15.118.412.3
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking39n/a11,126

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

NHTSA says that its count of drinking drivers is unreliable for 1977, 1981 and 1999 to 2007, because it was derived in a wrong way. This site gives no count for these years.

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 2008

Table 2.South Dakota: counties with a fatal crash in 2008, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Beadle County43
Bennett County1 or 21 or 2
Brookings County33
Brown County1 or 21 or 2
Brule County1 or 21 or 2
Butte County54
Charles Mix County1 or 21 or 2
Clay County1 or 21 or 2
Codington County33
Corson County1 or 21 or 2
Custer County1 or 21 or 2
Davison County1 or 21 or 2
Day County1 or 21 or 2
Deuel County31 or 2
Dewey County1 or 21 or 2
Fall River County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County31 or 2
Gregory County1 or 21 or 2
Haakon County1 or 21 or 2
Hamlin County1 or 21 or 2
Hand County33
Hanson County1 or 21 or 2
Hughes County1 or 21 or 2
Hyde County1 or 21 or 2
Jackson County33
Jones County1 or 21 or 2
Kingsbury County1 or 21 or 2
Lake County1 or 21 or 2
Lawrence County44
Lincoln County33
Lyman County31 or 2
McCook County1 or 21 or 2
Meade County87
Mellette County1 or 21 or 2
Minnehaha County1111
Moody County1 or 21 or 2
Oglala Lakota County65
Pennington County1010
Perkins County1 or 21 or 2
Potter County1 or 21 or 2
Roberts County1 or 21 or 2
Sanborn County1 or 21 or 2
Stanley County1 or 21 or 2
Turner County31 or 2
Union County33
Yankton County1 or 21 or 2
Ziebach County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 2008 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, 2008
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.2018.5%
6 a.m. to noon3229.6%
Noon to 6 p.m.3128.7%
6 p.m. to midnight2523.1%
Table 4.South Dakota: fatal crashes by weekday, 2008
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday1614.7%
Monday87.3%
Tuesday1412.8%
Wednesday2018.3%
Thursday1715.6%
Friday1513.8%
Saturday1917.4%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. South Dakota fatal crashes in 2008. https://fatalroads.com/state/south-dakota/2008/. 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 2008. 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 2008 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 2008 was in South Dakota?

South Dakota had 121 of the 37,423 deaths in the United States in 2008. That is 0.3 percent.

In how many counties of South Dakota did FARS record a fatal crash in 2008?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 47 counties of South Dakota in 2008.

How many fatal crashes in South Dakota in 2008 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 39 of 109 fatal crashes in 2008.