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Traffic Fatalities
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In spite of an October weekend that saw 17 traffic deaths in Virginia, the month ended with 66 deaths to preserve the downward trend they have taken during 1960, Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee and Superintendent of State Police, announced today.
The 66 deaths recorded exactly duplicated the score for October last year and is the lowest October total since the 64 of October, 1956. As of October 31, Colonel Woodson noted, the 1960 toll stood at 606 to compare favorably with the 688 for the corresponding period of 1959. Traffic volumes are up about 2 percent for the year.
Colonel Woodson was quick to point out that good fortune, rather than any revolutionary improvement in driver behavior, was the big factor in this reduction. During the first 10 months of 1960, Virginia saw 54 crashes which killed more than one person each for a total of 119 deaths. For the same period of 1959, there were 72 multiple fatal crashes killing 183 people.
“The same driver fault which causes a fatal crash,” he said, “can bring the deaths of as many people as happen to occupy the involved vehicle and who have no part in causing the crash.”
Colonel Woodson sounded a word of warning in describing November and December as very dangerous months trafficwise, with December averaging the highest toll of any month, and asked that everyone, walking and driving, keep this in mind.
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