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“And from 1977 firstquarter tabulations,’’ commented Colonel Slane, “it could be that Virginia may be headed for a fifth straight year in decreasing the number of highway traffic deaths.”
Statistics for last year also indicate that the number of vehicles miles traveled in the Commonwealth increased significantly by six percent; however, the mileage death rate per 100 million miles fell to 2.8. The 1976 national mileage death rate was 3.4. In ranking Virginia’s ninetyfive counties, the county with the best record is rated first, the worst, ninety-fifth. Last year marked the seventh consecutive year in which the state’s mileage death rate has
93.6%