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Final official tabulation of Virginia's 1964 traffic deaths stands at 1050, to mar* a 6.2 percent increase over the 989 experienced in 1963 and the second highest toll in the history of the Commonwealth Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Superintendent of State Police and Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Commit tee, announced today. “This marks the fourth consecutive year of increase,” he said, noting that there were. 756 deaths in 1960, 856 in 1961, 974 in 1962. Highest toll was 1.110 in 1941.
Five counties, Craig, Dickenson, Greene, Highland and Lunenburg experienced no fatalities. This was the fourth consecutive year for Craig. Forty-four showed increases, 44 decreases and eight recorded the same numbers as in 1963.
For the fourth consecutive year, Fairfax led, this time with 54, while Prince William was second with 26. On the basis of deaths per 100 million miles of travel (mileage death rate), Essex, with 10 killed and a rate of 16.5, had the worst rdcord while Bath, with five killed and a rate of 15.2, was second worst. Of the five counties experiencing no deaths, Dickenson was accorded the best record, since more travel was experienced there than in the other deathless counties. Greatest increases were shown by Augusta (10-25), Frederick (8-20) and Northampton (1-10). Notable decreases occurred in Franklin (16-6), Albemarle (28-19) and Henry (18-9). For cities with populations above 50,000, Alexandria had the best record with six deaths and a rate, based on deaths per 100,000 population of 5.9 (Mileage death rates are computed from gas tax receipts. This is impractical in cities). Worst was Chesapeake with 22 deaths and a rate of 25.7. Decreases were noted by Virginia Beach (36-13) and Chesapeake (23-22). Increases occurred in Portsmouth (2-14), Norfolk (26-36) Hampton (12-19), Newport News (19-24), Richmond (2025), Roanoke, (11-14) and Lynchburg (5-9). Alexandria with six, showed no change. Pedestrian deaths throughout the entire state numbered B85, or 25 more than in 1963. Deaths of servicemen rose from 60 to 89, those of bicyclists from 12 to 17 and those at railroad crossings from 14 to 15. The state’s mileage death rate was up from 5.4 to 5.5 and traffic volumes increased 5.1 percent. National average was 5.7. Total crashes rose from 98,816 to 109,296 and 871 of these, as against 820 in 1963, resulted in the deaths of one or more persons each. Injuries increased from 35,309 to 39,171 while economic losses stood at $189 million, an increase of more than $11 million. Non-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, pedestrian or other object in the highway rose from 355 to 358 and killed 419 people. Colonel Woodson noted that the state was again unfortunate in that crashes killing more than one person each increased from 106 which killed 274 in 1963 to 118 killing 297. Six of these killed five people each. Here
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