Statewide     North Central                                                                           

    2004       1130            45                 

    2005       1257            46          

    2006       1096            25

    2007         992            34

    2008         601            18

2008- year to date

More Missouri motorists arrived alive in 2007. Traffic fatalities were down 11 percent. This decline allowed the Missouri Coalition for Roadway Safety to reach its goal of 1,000 or fewer highway deaths in 2008 one year early. Missouri had 974 traffic fatalities last year, the lowest number in 15 years.