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Traffic deaths up during Labor Day

September 6, 2000 By admin

The Iowa State Patrol says twice as many people died on the state’s highways this past Labor Day weekend than a year ago. Sergeant Robert Hansen gathered the figures from the Patrol’s 14 district offices.There were five accidents in which six people died — compared to three wrecks and three deaths last year. Hansen says troopers wrote about 100 more tickets for speeding this year.They stopped four-thousand-900 speeders and issued tickets to 27-hundred. Just over 12-hundred people were ticketed for seatbelt violations — a 20-percent increase. Hansen says there wasn’t a significant increase in alcohol violations.There were six accidents involving alcohol compared to five last year. He says there were 48 arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol, a slight drop. Hansen did not know if any of the fatal accidents involved alcohol.

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