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September Brings
89 Traffic Deaths
Eighty-nine September traffic deaths sent Virginia into the last and three most dangerous months of the year topping the gruesome 652 for the same period of last year by 61 fatalities, Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Superintendent of State Police vnd Executive Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee, warned today in a plea that motorists and pedestrians exert every effort lo curb this disgraceful and unnecessary bend.
Colohel Woodson stated that the worst year Virginia has ever seen was 1041 when deaths totolled 1,110 and that 1^51 seems almost a certainty to break this all-time record. Pedestrian deaths are up 16 above the 145 for the same nine month of last year and servicemen present a more and more serious problem as deaths jn their ranks already number 60 as against 48 for the entire year of 1950, he said. \ « * * *
During the past 10, years, he added, December .with v75TS? 'deaths; October with 751, and November with 782 have ranked first, second and third respective— ly among all other months. He then pointed out that this is due to such adverse factors as longer
weather, football crowds, increased drinking, and holidays, with heavy shopping crowds during December.
With traffic volumes up nine percent above last year’s, Col. Woodson was emphatic in stating that the individual driver and walker must come abruptly to his senses and realize that Virginia’s traffic record is shameful and <;an ■ only be remedied by a complete change of attitude whicli will bring the reckless driver into social disreptite and inaugurate a just pride in proper traffic manners. ' '■.> ■ Colonel Woodson noted some progress in that, traffic volumes are some 70 percent above those of 1941 (which year showed a death rate per 100 *miHion miles • traveled of 18.3 while the same rate for ,1951,* even with a thous- * and deaths, would be slightly in excess of 970
53.5%