However, no decrease in total traffic deaths has been seen.

The nation had a total of nearly 41,700 traffic deaths in 1992.

These were just under 40 percent of all traffic deaths.

Since 1976, these laws have prevented more than 21,000 traffic deaths.

But then they started to rise again, and by 2002 there were 38,300 traffic deaths a year.

Overall traffic deaths rose to 786 last year from 745 in 2001.

Last year, 17,448 were killed in these incidents, about 41 percent of the nation's traffic deaths.

One person died as a result of a traffic death in the state.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of traffic deaths this past summer.

At least 22 traffic deaths were blamed on the weather.