ND traffic deaths equal 2008 total

BISMARCK (AP) — Traffic fatalities on North Dakota roads have reached the 2008 total, with three months still to go.

The Highway Patrol says that through Tuesday, 104 people had died in crashes, the same total as for all of last year. In each of the two previous years, 111 people died on North Dakota roads.

The most recent fatal was in Wahpeton on Tuesday, when a woman died in a crash involving two cars and a sugar beet truck.