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Virginia’s 198 traffic deaths for the first three months pf 1976 were well below the 226 for the same period of 1975, Colonel H. W. Burgess, Superintendent of State Police, has reported.
Noting that there were 1,256 deaths in 1972, 1,220 in 1973, 1,050 in 1974 and 1,030 in 1975, Colonel Burgess felt there is a possibility of four straight years of death reduction, which has never before occurred in Virginia. However, he added that the 1976 total is certain to be slightly
96.6%