The state Highway Safety Office says traffic fatalities climbed in 2014.
Sixty-five people died in wrecks last year, more than the previous six years and the most since 75 people died in 2007.
Counting pedestrians and cyclists, 70 people died.
Highway Safety Office research analyst Miles Brookes says it’s too early to say precisely how many fatal wrecks involved drivers impaired by alcohol or drugs.
Brookes says so far about 38 percent had been confirmed to have involved drivers with blood-alcohol levels over the legal limit.
