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Washington fatal crashes in 1994

FARS records 640 deaths in 575 fatal crashes in Washington in 1994.

In 1993 it records 661 deaths in 579 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Washington fell by 3.2% from 1993 to 1994. In the United States they rose by 1.4%.

In 1994, a driver was recorded as drinking in 44.7% of fatal crashes in Washington and 33.2% 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

1994 beside 1993

Table 1.Washington in 1994, in 1993 and the United States in 1994
FigureWashington, 1994Washington, 1993United States, 1994
Deaths64066140,716
Fatal crashes57557936,254
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking25727912,028

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 1994

Table 2.Washington: counties with a fatal crash in 1994, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Adams County97
Asotin County1 or 21 or 2
Benton County1212
Chelan County166
Clallam County44
Clark County2827
Cowlitz County1111
Douglas County55
Ferry County1 or 21 or 2
Franklin County1414
Garfield County1 or 21 or 2
Grant County1712
Grays Harbor County76
Island County66
Jefferson County85
King County113108
Kitsap County2322
Kittitas County1211
Klickitat County33
Lewis County1817
Lincoln County31 or 2
Mason County1010
Okanogan County109
Pacific County54
Pend Oreille County55
Pierce County5553
San Juan County1 or 21 or 2
Skagit County1915
Snohomish County4743
Spokane County4639
Stevens County87
Thurston County3027
Wahkiakum County1 or 21 or 2
Walla Walla County129
Whatcom County2120
Whitman County1311
Yakima County4137

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1994 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Washington: fatal crashes by time of day, 1994
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.11620.4%
6 a.m. to noon11019.3%
Noon to 6 p.m.16528.9%
6 p.m. to midnight17931.4%
Table 4.Washington: fatal crashes by weekday, 1994
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday8314.4%
Monday6411.1%
Tuesday7012.2%
Wednesday6611.5%
Thursday7312.7%
Friday11520.0%
Saturday10418.1%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Washington fatal crashes in 1994. https://fatalroads.com/state/washington/1994/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 1994. 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 1994 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 1994 was in Washington?

Washington had 640 of the 40,716 deaths in the United States in 1994. That is 1.6 percent.

In how many counties of Washington did FARS record a fatal crash in 1994?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 37 counties of Washington in 1994.

How many fatal crashes in Washington in 1994 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 257 of 575 fatal crashes in 1994.