With less than a month to go until the end of the year, Minnesota is approaching last year’s total for road fatalities. So far, at least 350 people have died in accidents statewide–compared with 333 deaths at this time last year. Mike Hanson with the Office of Traffic Safety says, however, it’s important to keep in mind…

Hanson says that over the past 15 years, the road fatality rate in Minnesota has been cut almost in half.