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Highway fatalities decline 9 percent in Oregon

The Columbian
Published: September 9, 2010, 12:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Transportation Department says traffic deaths in Oregon declined 9.4 percent from 2008 to 2009, from 416 to 317.

And the state did even better in reducing the number of those deaths related to alcohol — a 16 percent drop from 137 to 115.

Nationally, the department said Wednesday that traffic deaths fell 9.7 percent, continuing a trend attributed to seat belts, safer cars and tougher drunken driving laws.

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