FMCSA · Safety Measurement System register · South Dakota

Crash Indicator in South Dakota

• 758Reportable crashes
• 6,105Registered carriers in the state
• 35Fatal crashes in the state

Reportable crashes -- a fatality, an injury or a tow-away -- as recorded by the state that investigated them. South Dakota carries 758 reportable crashes in this category, out of 255,582 recorded nationally, which places it 45 of 51 jurisdictions the register covers. Its share of the national figure is 0.003 as a fraction, banked by the build rather than turned into a ratio here.

The state’s carriers by fleet size

• 1 power unit 2,796
• 2 to 5 power units 2,318
• 6 to 20 power units 667
• 21 to 100 power units 173
• 101 to 1,000 power units 24
• 1,000 or more power units 1

Other categories recorded in South Dakota

• Controlled Substances/Alcohol 127
• Driver Fitness 1,559
• Hazardous Materials Compliance 201
• Hours-of-Service Compliance 7,155
• Unsafe Driving 1,565
• Vehicle Maintenance 21,542

Crash Indicator across every jurisdiction → Every category in South Dakota →

Figures from the federal source files: EPA’s ECHO downloads, CMS provider files and the FMCSA census.

Counts from FMCSA SMS input files on data.transportation.gov: kjg3-diqy (Motor Carrier Census, 2,122,441 rows), rbkj-cgst (Inspection, 5,834,148), 8mt8-2mdr (Violation, 6,808,260), 4wxs-vbns (Crash, 255,582), p2mt-9ige (Out of Service Orders, 399,600); SoQL aggregates fetched 2026-09-16. The rank is taken over the jurisdictions this desk publishes, and the national figure beside it is the register’s own total for the category.