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against 1,117 in 1969, resulted in the deaths of one or more persons each. Injuries increased from 48,050 to 48,356, while economic losses stood at $270 million.
Non-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, pedestrian or other object in the highway, dropped from 500 to 439 and killed 506 people. Colonel Burgess noted that the State was fortunate in that crashes killing more than one person each decreased from 123 which killed 300 in 1969 to 122 killing 285. Colonel Burgess explained that the same driver fault can kill as many people as happen to be in the involved vehicles and who do nothing to prevent or cause the crash.
Rural deaths were down from 1,009 to 911 while urban ones were up from 295 to 320.
The percentage of fatal crashes involving drivers known to have been drinking was 31.4. Colonel Burgess noted that this percentage is doubtless most conservative, as all facts are not known in all cases. Various national estimates place this percentage at more than 50.
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