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Among other factvjjointed out is that U.S. Route 1 is the most dangerous highway in the State from a traffic fatality standpoint. On it nearly twice as many people were killed as on any other route., A;1 U.S. lhad a grim toll of 73 for the year. U.S. 11 was second with, 45 killed, U.S.-460 in third place With 81, and U.S. 58 fourth with 29 deaths. *
The accident report shows that Virginia drivers weye involved in. 33,334 accidents and out-of-State cars and trucks in 7,225 with 2, 639 not stated. The Teport points ■otit that 75 per cent of the driver* of all vehicles involved in accidents were within 25 miles of home, that by far the largest number of accidents, occurred in clear weather and on a dry surface, and that the peak hours for both accidents and fatalities are between 4 and 7 o’clock in the evening, depending oh the season of the year.
Even four-lane divided highways are no guarantee of safety when there is excessive speed, lack of attention, improper driving or vehicle failures. While no breakdown was given in the'report as to cl&ss of road on which the accidents occurred, within recent weeks three people were killed on a four-lane divided section *f U.S, Route 11 west of Salem, and 10 were injured in one accident* on the modern Shirley expressway south of Washington, D. C. ^:V A
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