Published: January 6th, 2009 09:34 AM
Last Modified: January 6th, 2009 01:48 PM
FAIRBANKS -- The number of people killed on Alaska's roads last year declined about 25 percent from 2007.
The Alaska Highway Safety Office says that's the lowest number in more than a decade.
Officials are attributing the good news, in part, to the high cost of gasoline.
Lt. Dan Welborn with the Fairbanks Police Department says people in Alaska are driving less. In 2008, 63 people died in traffic crashes in what is the lowest number since 1994.
The safety office says the number of fatal crashes in Alaska fell by one-quarter from 2007 to 2008.
Cindy Cashen of the Alaska Highway Safety Office says there's been a gradual decrease in highway deaths in the state over the last three decades.
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