Ohio Traffic Deaths at Record Low
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Posted: 5:43 PM Feb 24, 2010
Ohio Traffic Deaths at Record Low
State agencies say Ohio traffic deaths fell last year to the lowest level in more than 70 years of record-keeping, continuing a trend of safer roads.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - State agencies say Ohio traffic deaths
fell last year to the lowest level in more than 70 years of
record-keeping, continuing a trend of safer roads.

Preliminary numbers released Wednesday show 1,028 people were
killed in crashes in 2009, down 14 percent from the 1,191 fatalities in 2008, which had been the previous record low year.

Spokesman Tom Hunter with the Ohio Department of Public Safety says the primary reasons for the decline in deaths include better traffic enforcement, education and engineering. He says a lesser role has been played by a fourth "E" - the economy, which has led to cutbacks in driving.

The state has been tracking highway fatalities since 1936. The deadliest year was 1969, when 2,778 people were killed on Ohio roads.

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Posted by: Sciotocountian on Feb 25, 2010 at 08:30 AM

High fuel prices, high unemployment, economy in the trenches, and no money to go anywhere... Might have something to do with it.
Posted by: Iknewit on Feb 25, 2010 at 12:41 AM

A big reason is the removal of unwarranted traffic lights such as the ones that were removed in the city of Portsmouth. Oh, but wait!!! ODOT didn't know what they were doing. The mayor is going to reinstall all those unwarranted lights. City Council sent the issue to the traffic committee which the Police Chief chairs. He has compiled information that shows that she should not reinstall the lights. In an attempt to manipulate the traffic committee, she has ordered the Chief not to share the information with the traffic committee. The information he compiled is public record......Request it and see for yourself the incompetency of the Mayor and her so called Engineer.
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