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The state s mileage death rate was up from 5.1 to 5.2 below the national average of 5.5 and traffic volumes Increased 9.3 percent. Total crashes dropped from 116,275 to 111,061 and 1,005 of these, as against 908 in 1966, resulted In the deaths of one or more persons each. Injuries increased from 41,849 to 43,122 while economic losses stood at $230 million, an increase of $30 million.
The drop In total crashes reflects the raising of the amount of damage at which a crash must be reported from $50 to $ 100.
Nop-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, pedestrian or other object in the highway, rose from 389 to 426 and killed 506 people. Colonel Burgess noted that the state was again unfortunate in that crashes killing more than one person each increased from 133 which killed 331 ih 1966 to 146 killing 362. One of these killed six people and six killed five each. Here, he explained that the same driver fault can kill as many as happen to be in the involved vehicles and who do nothing
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