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The state’s mileage death rate was down from 5.2 to 5.1, below the national average of 5.6, and traffic volumes increased 5.3 percent. Total crashes rose from 111,179 to 116, 275 and 908 of these, as against 881 in 1965, resulted in the deaths of one or more persons each. Injuries increased from 39,263 to 41,849 while economic losses stood at $200 million, an increase of $9 tnillion. Non-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, pedestrian or other object in the highway, rose from 360 to 389 and killed 471 people. Colonel Woodson noted that the state was again unfortunate in that crashes killing more than one person each increased from 122 which killed 303 in 1965 to 133 kill- | ing 331. One of these killed j nine people, one killed; sighf and two killed Six. Here! he explained that the same; driver fault can kill as many! as happen to be in the in-! volved vehicles and who do j nothing to prevent or cause the | crashes. Rural deaths were up from 818 to 856 and urban ones! from 244 to 250. The alarming rise in crashes involving motorcycles and motor scooters continued* There were 23 fatal and 1,204
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