It was a safer year for motorists traveling on Missouri roads during the New Year's holiday this year.
The announced today that it has reports of just one fatality on the roads between 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve until 11:59 yesterday. Troopers investigated 157 accidents, which also resulted in 70 injuries, and arrested 90 people who were driving drunk.
Theoccurred around Springfield, when 31-year-old Joseph Russell apparently crossed the median on Interstate 44 and crashed headlong into an oncoming semi truck.
All those numbers are sharply improved from the 2009-2010 New Year's holiday, when five people died, the troopers investigated 319 crashes, and busted 113 people for drunk driving.
