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TOTAL crashes 'were up from 155,257 to 157,637 and 1,048 of these, compared to 1,100 in 1972, killed one or more persons each. Injuries decreased from 52,517 to 52,378, while economic losses were up from $350 million to $405 million.
Non - collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, a pedestrian, or an object in the roadway, were even at 423 but killed 463 people, as compared to 405 in 1972. Crashes killing more than one person each were up from 113 killing 267 people to 118 which killed 287.
Rural deaths were down from 936 to 930 and urban ones from 320 to 290.
Percentage of fatal crashes involving drivers known to have been drinking was up from 26.1. Here Colonel Burgess noted that these percentages are no doubt conservative as all facts are not known in all cases. He added that caution should be used in citing such percentages as they are involvement figures and not causation ones.D
97.5%