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Virginia Traffic Deaths .
13 Less Than Jan. *50
Both a hearty 'Veil done" for the people of Virginia and sincere regret came simultaneously today from Colonel C. W, Woodson, Jr.,. Superintendent of State Police and Executive Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee, as the year’s first month closed with an unofficial &4 deaths which (were''13 less than for the same month of I960.
If this reduction could continue, at the same rate all during the year. Colonel Woodson pointed out, some 152 lives could be saved on the basis of last year’s death' toll. Pedestrian deaths dropped from 24 to 16..
Concretely, Colonel Woodson gave consistent bad Veather as a reason for the saving of these lives, since during bad weather most drivers make allowances for dangerous conditions. He stated also that the reduction is all the more commendable in that bad weather failed to prevent a 16 per cent rise in traffic volumes.
On the other hand, Colonel Woodson felt that the sterner attitudes of many Virginia courts coupled with the full realization of Virginia’s.disgraceful 1050 record no doubt had their impact.
At the same time, Colonel Woodson annoqnced that Virginia’s 1950 toll had dropped from, the first tabulation of 908 to 305 but the1 late reports quite possibly - could- bring it even higher than 908.
The reduction was occasioned by an erroneous report from another police department which listed two injured persons as dead and a pedestrian death which was ruled officially to be suicide. In the latter case, a mentally deranged person was observed to leap directly in the path of an automobile. Definite suicides of this type are not classified as traffic deaths, he'said.
In spite of the reduction in January of 7? to 64, Colonel Woodsen warned that 64 was the highest death toll for the month since 1941, with the exception of last year, and that late reports were expected to bring some upward revision.
"Supervised credit assistance," White aaid, "strengthens family farming in this locality and elsewhere. /This in turn strengthens our communities and builds a stronger defense for the Nation."
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