By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol are encouraged after seeing significantly lower crash numbers this year during the Christmas holiday.
Last year, troopers worked 306 traffic crashes with three fatalities and 84 injuries. This year that number dropped to 124 crashes, two fatalities, and 71 injuries.
Seargent Shane Hux with Troop H in St. Joseph says with all the traffic out during Christmas, it was nice to see a lower number of accidents.
"Considering the weather, we had great weather with a lot of traffic out there, good job by the motoring public out there," Hux tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "Obeying all traffic laws and nobody lost their life during the holiday period, which is a great deal here in northwest Missouri."
Hux attributes the drop to drivers taking the responsibility of highway and traffic safety seriously.
"It's the primary purpose of the highway patrol, however the highway patrol cannot do it by itself, it takes the responsibility of the motoring public, everybody that's operating a motor vehicle out there on the highway," Hux says.