Wisconsin had three more traffic deaths in January than in the same month a year ago. Preliminary D-O-T figures show that 36 people were killed in Wisconsin highway crashes last month -- the same as the average for the past five years. Six pedestrians were among those killed. Last month's death toll was tied for the ninth-lowest in Wisconsin since the end of World War Two in the 1940's, when the modern highway system began to flourish. D-O-T officials are urging drivers to be more careful. With gas prices down, they expect more traffic -- and they're trying to build on a solid safety record from last year, when Wisconsin had fewer than 500 fatalities for the first time since 1943.
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