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Three counties, Bath, Craig and Lancaster experienced no fatalities. This was the seventh consecutive year for Craig. Forty-three showed increases, 43 decreases and 10 recorded the same numbers as in 1966. In Rappahannock County in 1967 there were two traffic fatalities as compared to 5 the year before. For the seventh consecutive year, Fairfax led, this time with 62, while Prince William was second with 37. On the basis of deaths per 100 million miles of travel (mileage death rate), Charles City, with 6 killed and a rate of 25.2, had the worst record while Mecklenburg, with 30 killed and a rate of 18.9, was second worst. Of the three counties experiencing no deaths, Lancaster was accorded the best record, since more travel was experiended there than in the other deathless counties. Greatest increases we ret shown by Pittsylvania (13-34), Mecklenburg (13-30), Prince William (23-37) and Giles (415). Notable decreases occurred in Henrico (31-19), Warren (14-4) and Campbell (2011).
For cities with populations above 50,000, Portsmouth had the best record with eight deaths and a rate, based on deaths per 100,000 population, of 6.8. (Mileage death rates are computed from gas
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