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all reduction at the end of the year.
Deaths of pedestrians were down from 154 to 140, those of motorcyclists from 53 to 50 and those of servicemen from 48 to 29.
AN ADVERSE factor, he said, was a total of 226 deaths in those crashes killing more than one person each. This total is nine more than its 1972 correspondent. Other adverse factors were an all time high May score of 122 and the second highest recorded June toll of 129.
97.6%