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Richmond, Va....Designating the 22 traffic deaths of the past Memorial Day weekend as an all-time high for the holiday, t colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr,, ; Superintendent of State Police ’ and Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee, asked for common sense driving during the com ing three-day Fourth of July ■ holiday. As warnings. Colonel Woodson quoted some findings from a survey of past Fourth of July fatalities by the National Safety Council. Fatalities occurred at the highest rate during the first six hours of the holiday, pre sumably because of heavy traf fic en route destinations. Nearly two-thirds of the fatal crashes involved only one driver, pointing to speed, inattention, drinking and exhaus tion. One-third of the drivers involved were under age 25. 1 Speed too fast for conditions ' was a factor in half the crash es, while one-third of the drivers involved and one out. of five pedestrians killed had been drinking. Nearly half of the drivers had previous con victions, with spee ding pre dominant. About 50 percent of the crash es occurred in darkness, with ’ from 1 a.m. to 2 the most dang erous hour. Colonel Woodson noted that the weekend, for statistical purposes, will be 78 hours. Eleven people were killed in Virginia traffic during last
year’6 Fourth of July holiday a 54-hour weekend. Highest 1 toll was 24 in 1963, a 102hour weekend. In closing, Colonel Woodson 1 noted about half of the car - ; occupants who were killed would have survived had they' , been wearing seatbelts. . *
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