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million miles of vehicular travel, was 3.1 to compare well with the national average of 3.5. Virginia traffic volumes were down an estimated 4.5 percent.

COLONEL Burgess said that while the 55 mile per hour speed limit is given credit for the death reduction, there were certain other factors the exact effects of which can no more be pinpointed than those of the 55 limit.

Travel was down, seatbelt usage is increasing, almost all young drivers are products of high school driver education courses, Interstate construction mileage increased, many older drivers have completed the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course, availability and effectiveness of emergency medical services have drastically heightened and most effective measures against the drinking driver were obtained in 1972 and 1973.□

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