According to an advocacy group known as the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Virginia is among the nine worst states for highway safety laws. Even so, Virginia continues to see fewer and fewer traffic fatalities. The Virginia Highway Safety Office VAHSO reports that Virginia had 821 traffic fatalities in 2008, the fewest since 1966. VAHSO also reports that fatalities through the first eleven months of 2009 declined13 percent compared to the same period in 2008.

Numerous factors have caused fatalities to decline nationwide, including better vehicle safety standards and improved highway design. Former Governor Timothy Kaine, however, gives some of the credit to improvements at the state level.

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