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Asked the reasons for December’s high mortality rate. Colonel Woodson stated there is without doubt more drinking in December than any other month. December has more hours of darkness, more vehicular and more pedestrian traffic, and everyone is too preoccupied with holiday thoughts to think of safety. Here, he noted that in 36.0 percent of December’s fatal crashes last year a driver involved was known to have been drinking and that this percentage would certainly be considerably higher were all facts known in all cases. In addition, 74.7 percent of the month's fatal crashes occurred in darkness and dusk, as against the yearly average of 58.6 percent. "It is difficult indeed, I know too crowd the unpleasant thoughts of the traffic menace into the happiness of Christmas,’’ he said, "but if we consider the many homes to which December brings tragedy and realize that any of our 6 can be one of them, it becomes well worth while.”
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