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Christmas Traffic
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With Virginia facing the distinct possibility of topping the all time record for a year's traffic deaths, Colonel C. W. Woodson, Jr., Chairman of the Governor’s Highway Safety Committee and superintendent of State Police, called for an awareness of seasonal dangers during the last few days of 1966. The weekend including Christmas Day last year, he said, saw 19 fatalities. Six Of these occurred on Christmas Day and nine on Christmas Eve. This year’s fatalities are running well above those for the same period of 1965 and there is every chance that they might exceed the 1941 record of 1,110 deaths. Last year’s toll was 1,062. Drinking, Colonel Woodson continued, provides probably the worst hazard at this time of year, affecting both pedestrians and drivers. Alcohol is a factor in at least half of all fatal crashes and the Christmas season sees people who drink drinking more than usual and people who seldom use alcohol using it. "An individual need not be ‘drunk’, as the term is generally used, to be dangerous behind the wheel or in danger afoot. Very small quantities of alcohol interfere drastically with driver performance and cause walkers to become careless.* Eajly darkness, heavy.traffic and general 'holiday' preoccupation were listed by Colonel Woodson as other seasonal dangers.
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