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Traffic Fatalities Increase
Do not speed, do not drink and drive and do use your safety restraints.
While these phrases may sound like routine safety messages, State Police serving the 12-county area including Rappahannock and Culpeper recently issued a special appeal to motorists and residents in the area to follow the messages to the letter.
Captain C.C. Moss, Jr., commander of the Department’s Second Division, reported there were 23 fatal crashes involving 24 deaths in eight of the 12 counties from January 1 through March 21. This compares to 12 fatal crashes and 12 deaths for a similar period in 1984.
County by county statistics for the period indicated show the following fatalities: Frederick, six; Culpeper, four; Fauquier, four; Shenandoah, three; Stafford, two; Warren, two; Page, one; Spotsylvania, one; and Rappahannock, one.
• Free Legal Assistance
Rappahannock Legal Services, Inc. (RLS), which provides free legal assistance for low income residents of Rappahannock, Culpeper, Madison, Orange and Fauquier Counties, will hold a public meeting Wednesday, April 24 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Second National Bank’s Community Room on the corner of Main and Davis Streets in Culpeper.
The purpose of the meeting is to receive public comments on RLS’s proposed plan for setting priorities for delivery of legal services, based upon clients’ most important legal needs and RLS’s limited resources.
The proposed plan takes account of the results of a February mailing pf 734 surveys to clients, community organizations and agencies, local attorneys, and judges. Copies of the proposed plan are now available for review during business hours (Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at RLS’s Culpeper office, 702 South Main Street, Culpeper, Va. For more information about the plan or the public meeting, call Carter Foulds, managing attorney, at 825-3131.
• Litter Costs
Picking up litter along the state’s highways costs Virginia’s taxpayers more than $2 million each year.
The Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation spent $2,469,919 in the 1983-84 fiscal year to keep the state’s roadsides neat and clean, some $300,000 more than the cost in the previous fiscal period.
The cost translates to 305,253 total manhours throughout the state or 38,156 eight-hour days, according to C. O. Leigh, state maintenance engineer.
About half the cost, $1.3 million, was for picking up litter along the 8,000 miles of the state’s primary system, with $861,000 spent on the interstate system.
In Rappahannock alone department workers spent 1,240 manhours picking up litter on the primary system during the 1983-84 fiscal year. That was at a cost of $4,515.
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