Four rose-colored pushpins jut out from Sgt. Todd Casper’s map of Hall County in his office at the Sheriff’s Office headquarters. Representing traffic fatalities for 2017, the pushpins stand in a scattered plot of 32 yellow stickers marking 2016’s fatalities. The 32 fatalities are three fewer than the 35 total deaths from 2015, Casper said.
Crashes, fatalities down in Hall, bucking state trend