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The Wisconsin State Patrol says 83 people died in traffic accidents last month. That's far more than the 66 people killed during the previous August.
The death toll also breaks a string of 10 months in which traffic fatalities declined from the previous year.
Still, the state patrol says traffic deaths in Wisconsin are down 20 percent from this time last year. Four hundred people had been killed by the end of last month, compared to 488 at that time a year ago.
The Department of Transportation's chief of safety programs, Dennis Hughes, says that means the state can still end the year with the lowest number of traffic deaths in decades if people slow down, buckle up and drive sober.
