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Pedestrian deaths rose from 177 to 181, those of servicemen fell from 45 to 32, those at railway crossings from 16 to seven and those on motorcycles rose, including minibikes, from 51 to 63. Deaths of bicyclists were down from 16 to 10.
Total crashes were up from 127, 187 to 129,479 and 899 of these, compared to 879 in 1975, killed one or more persons each. Injuries increased from 50,476 to 53,120 and economic losses were up from $435 million to $470 million.
Non-collision fatal crashes, or those involving contact with no other vehicle, a pedestrian or an object in the roadway, were up from 383 to 387 and killed 435 people, as compared to 425 in 1975. There were 95 crashes killing more than one person each and they killed 216 people. Rural deaths were up from 741 to 777 while urban ones fell from 289 to 243.
Rappahannock County ranked ninety-third among Virginia’s counties, having had five traffic deaths on county roads in 1976. The mileage death rate per 100 million miles was 8.8. In 1975, the county faired slightly better, ranking eighty-sixth, with four fatalities and a mileage death rate of 7.2.
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