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792 to 759 while urban ones rose from 182 to 230. These fluctuations were largely explained by the mergers of Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties into the Cities of Chesapeake and Virginia Beach. The percentage of fatal crashes involving drivers known to have been drinking was up from 32.2 to 34.4. In concluding, Colonel Woodson said that these percentages are most conservative since all facts involving drinking are not known in all cases, andria (4-6), Newport News (8-19), Norfolk (22-26) and Roanoke (9-11). Hampton remained the same with 12. Pedestrian deaths throughout the entire state numbered 163, or 42 less than in 1962. Deaths of servicemen rose cllsts from 11 to 12 and those at railroad crossings from 12 to 14. The state's mileage death rate dropped from 5.7 to 5.4, with traffic volumes up 7.4 percent. (Editor: The mileage death rate is the most practical method of comparing records among states.) The national average was 5.4. Total crashes rose from 94, 051 to 98,816 and 820 of these, as against 826 in 1962, resulted in the deaths of one or more people each. Injuries were up from 33,143 to 35,309 while costs stood at $178,000, 000, an increase of more than $12,000,000. Non-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other car, pedestrian or other object on the highway, rose from 284 to 355, which killed 410 people. Colonel Woodson noted that the state was again most unfortunate in that crashes killing more than one person each rose from 93 which killed 239 in 1962 to 106 which killed 274. Three of these killed six people each. Here, he explained that the same driver fault can kill as many as happen to be riding in the involved vehicles and who do nothing to cause the crash and who cannot prevent it.
Rural deaths dropped from
Soc. Security Notes
Some self-employed farmers are either overlooking, or not taking advantage of an opportunity to provide a protection for themselves and their families that could be most valuable to them, that is, social security protection against loss of income because of retirement, disability, or death.
To the young farmer, age 65 is a long way off and he may not be immediately concerned about any special provision
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