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Wrong-way driving on Virginia’s interstate and four-lane divided primary highways has been reduced sharply, but still represents a major and sometimes fatal hazard, a new study by the State Department of Highways and Transportation showed today.

J. P. Mills, Jr., the department’s traffic and safety engineer, said the/ number of such reported incidents declined from 135 in the six months between June 1 and November 30, 1971, soon after the problem became evident, to 58 in the same period of 1977. The number of accidents

75.9%